The pilots launched the strike at Nairobi's Jomo Kenyatta International Airport at 06:00 am (0300 GMT) on Saturday, defying a court order against industrial action and leaving thousands of passengers stranded. "Due to the ongoing unlawful industria...

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...

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...

Exports fell 0.3 percent year-on-year in October, according to the General Administration of Customs, a steep drop from September's 5.7 percent increase and well below analysts' expectations. Year-on-year imports were down 0.7 percent in October, n...

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...

Global stock markets and oil prices rallied last week on hopes that Beijing would roll back some of its economically painful policies aimed at stamping out the disease within its borders. But on Saturday, the Chinese government said it would "unswe...

But 75 years after independence, that history is being rewritten across the country as the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) seeks to promote its own Hindu nationalist agenda. Critics accuse the BJP of upending settled narratives to fit its outlo...

The Spurs star sustained a fracture around his left eye during their 2-1 win at Marseille last week when he collided with Chancel Mbemba. The South Korean skipper and talisman had surgery on Friday and is in a race to be fit for the Qatar World Cup...

"That green hill over there is Russia," says commander Roman Gryshchenko. In September, he helped push Moscow's forces back across the border near Kharkiv. The retreat marked one of the high points of the Ukrainian counteroffensive in the northeas...

Foxconn, Apple's principal subcontractor, locked down its massive factory in Zhengzhou last month after a spike in infections -- in line with China's zero-Covid policy. In a separate statement Monday, the Taiwanese firm said its fourth quarter ear...

But it didn't take long for Egypt's stiff security measures to shatter his dreams, as rights groups warn the North African country has stifled protests with "dozens" of arrests. "I was so happy when they announced that COP would be in Africa," sai...