One of the men, who identified himself as a 24-year-old college student, was arrested Sunday after climbing over a fence and dropping into a dry moat surrounding the monkey exhibit at Ichikawa City Zoo outside Tokyo. The other man, who was filming ...

Hong Kong, along with Macau, used to be the only places in China where people could publicly mourn Beijing's deadly crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators in Tiananmen Square on June 4, 1989. Defendants Lee Cheuk-yan, 69, and Chow Hang-tung, 41, ...

The Ghana winger illuminated a largely scrappy final late in the second half as he improvised a sublime finish to caress Erling Haaland's cross into the net at Wembley. Semenyo is set to be a key figure for the Black Stars at the 2026 World Cup, wh...

Both the Black Stars and the Blue Sharks secured places at the global showpiece in the United States, Canada and Mexico from June 11 having missed out on the 2025 AFCON. The seedings were determined by the current FIFA rankings, and 10 of the 12 f...

Tucked among his expedition gear is the kite in red, black, white and green of the Palestinian flag, marked with handwritten messages from children in the battered territory. The war, sparked by Hamas's October 2023 attack on Israel, has killed mor...

France, which currently chairs the rotating presidency of the Group of Seven, faces the tricky task of keeping dialogue open as trade feuds spurred by US President Donald Trump's tariff blitz compound geopolitical tensions. Reducing reliance on Chi...

"Hope" by Na, whose low-budget horror movie "The Wailing" became a huge hit in his home country, was able to give free rein to his dark imagination in this gory tale of alien invasion. "It's the most expensive film in the history of Korean cinema,"...

A poster, T-shirt, and hoodie -- priced between $35 and $67 -- commemorating China's victories at the World Team Table Tennis Championships in London last week featured a Chinese flag with six stars instead of five. A later version appeared with th...

The freight train crashed into the public bus on Saturday afternoon at a busy junction in Bangkok, with the vehicle bursting into flames and 30 people left injured, authorities said. Police charged the train driver, who was also injured, and a rail...

"These ships are a lifeline for the people," 18-year-old Washington told AFP, travelling between two tiny green specks in the 800-kilometre-long (500-mile) Indian Ocean chain, from Chowra to the slightly larger Car Nicobar. "If I had missed this on...

Anthropologist Anstice Justin, 71, took part in the government's limited contact missions to the restricted North Sentinel island in the Andaman Sea between 1986 and 2004. The island's inhabitants are famously resistant to engaging with outsiders, ...

Designed to rival China's investments around the Indian Ocean, New Delhi's colossal project will be built on Great Nicobar Island, a site offering a naval presence far closer to Southeast Asia than India's mainland. Authorities promise sweeping eco...

Led by Donovan Mitchell's 26 points, Cleveland's victory makes them the last team to book their spot in this post-season's final four, with the Oklahoma City Thunder and San Antonio Spurs waiting in the West. Mitchell was among four Cavs players wh...

The 31-year-old became the first English golfer since Jim Barnes in 1919 to capture the PGA crown, making four birdies and an eagle in the last 10 holes to produce a four-stroke victory at Aronimink. "It definitely feels like a journey," Rai said. ...

AFP Sport looks at five of the contenders to become the game's next superstar at this year's finals in the United States, Mexico and Canada: Nico Paz (Argentina) The son of former Argentine international Pablo Paz has opted to play for the world c...