Ardern faces some deft diplomatic footwork if she is to attend both the East Asia summit in Cambodia and New Zealand's showdown at Eden Park in Auckland. She is then due to travel on to an Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation meeting in Bangkok. "It'...

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak will on Monday use a speech at the United Nations climate summit in Egypt to tell world leaders to deliver on their promises to tackle global warming.

Facebook-parent Meta will become the latest tech firm to scale back its workforce, with plans to layoff thousands of employees this week, US media reported Sunday.

The Russian-occupied city of Kherson in southern Ukraine was cut off from water and electricity supplies on Sunday after a Ukrainian air strike, the city’s Moscow-installed administration said. Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelensky warned late...

Gunathilaka appeared wearing handcuffs by remote video link to the court in Sydney, speaking only to confirm his identity and that he could hear proceedings. Sri Lanka Cricket said separately that it had suspended the batsman. The 31-year-old, who...

The celebrations in the former British hill station of Pyin Oo Lwin have not been held for two years because of the Covid pandemic and unrest following a military coup. But on Sunday night rival teams began launching 76 aerial artistic creations th...

North Korea’s military said Monday its recent barrage of missile tests were practices to “mercilessly” strike key South Korean and U.S. targets such as air bases and operation command systems with a variety of missiles that are likely nuclear-...

An India-based computer hacking gang targeted critics of the Qatar World Cup, an investigation by British journalists said on Sunday, as the Qatari government furiously denied it had played any part in commissioning the eavesdropping.

Over the past two years, Republican states in the US have passed several voting rights laws and measures under the guise of fighting voter fraud. The new rules, experts warn, are opening avenues for voter intimidation and poll interference, making t...

During the COP26 climate summit last year, the government boldly promised to end the construction of new coal plants and phase out the dirtiest of those already running, even as energy demands soar in the manufacturing powerhouse. "But this is not ...

Radio personality Percival Mabasa, 63, who went by the name "Percy Lapid" in his programme, was shot dead in a Manila suburb on October 3 as he drove to his studio. Police filed murder complaints against Bureau of Corrections director general Geral...

Biden's Democrats are facing a gargantuan struggle to hang on to Congress, after a race the president has cast as a "defining" moment for US democracy -- though kitchen-table issues like inflation have largely dominated the campaign. Republicans ar...

Amnesty International's head on Sunday warned that the proceedings of COP27 in Egypt could be stained by the death of one of the country's leading rights activists from a hunger and water strike in prison if Egyptian authorities do not release him w...

The warning came after a spate of North Korean weapons tests last week -- including an intercontinental ballistic missile -- as the United States and South Korea conducted their biggest-ever air force exercise. The United States and South Korea hav...

The Black Caps, who face Pakistan in the semi-finals at the Sydney Cricket Ground on Wednesday, have long been a force in white-ball cricket. But they have failed to turn that into world titles despite coming agonisingly close in recent years, incl...