Welcome on board the Costa Serena, the cruise ship with a capacity of nearly 4,000 people serving as a floating hotel for Asian Games participants in Japan. The continent's premier sports event has made headlines for the wrong reasons, with teams c...

Their gear includes high-precision GPS units and tablets connected to an AI system running in real time on servers thousands of kilometres away at the company's California base. The arrival in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) of the young co...

The music that used to flow constantly out of restaurants, cafes and shops in the capital Kabul has been muted for five years, replaced only by religious or patriotic songs supported by the Taliban authorities in power since 2021. But taxi drivers ...

Robinson's destructive performance gave Atlanta its first win of the NFL season, while a shellshocked Lambeau Field booed as the Packers slipped to 1-2 with their first loss in a home opener since 2012. Prior to Thursday, the Falcons had only manag...

China had won gold in the event at every Games since 1994 but they were dethroned by Japan after Sora Matsushima beat Wen Ruibo in the decisive match to win 3-2. The Japan team also featured Harimoto, whose parents were both born in China and whose...

The 17-year-old clocked an astonishing 2min 04.83sec in Tokyo to slice more than half a second off the previous 200m breaststroke mark held by China's Qin Haiyang. It was Ohashi's second gold of the Games, having won the 100m breaststroke gold afte...

Here are some of the key issues the pontiff is expected to face while on the first official visit to France by a head of the Roman Catholic Church in 18 years: Clerical abuse The Vatican announced in August that Pope Leo XIV will meet victims of cle...

Addressing the General Assembly in sunglasses during its high-level week, Shah said a warming climate was "destabilizing the fragile Himalayan ecology," melting permafrost and glaciers and accelerating hazards. The nation suffered one of the worst ...

These online campaigns, unprecedented in scale in Brazil, have highlighted the growing role of social media in the country's politics, while also raising questions about compliance with election rules. "The cavalry has arrived. Come join this army ...

The city is hitting back at the US leader, who among other things insists Canada should cease to exist as a country and instead become the 51st US state. The Ottawa city council voted unanimously Wednesday night to yank Trump's name from a leafy re...

It introduces "A 30 percent cap on the number of students in a class who do not have an adequate command of Italian, more tools for learning our language, and a ban on the burqa and niqab in schools," Meloni wrote on social media. If a child seriou...

Church bells rang around the nation when the first US pontiff, whose paternal grandmother was born in France, landed outside Paris just before 10:00 am (0800 GMT) for a four-day trip. President Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte were set to gree...

This week again, dozens of dead southern right whale calves washed up on beaches in southern Chubut province, continuing a disturbing trend that began in June. "The death rate (among young whales) is quite high this season in particular," Mariano C...

In the marquee matchup of the opening day at Medinah, Scheffler and Burns edged South Korean Im Sung-jae and Australian Min Woo Lee 1-up to establish a slender US lead in a golf tournament it traditionally dominates. Im made a 10-foot birdie putt t...

Pezeshkian took a defiant stand at the UN Wednesday, for which he travelled to New York, telling the world that Iran would not "bend at the knee" to Washington -- even as US President Donald Trump acknowledged ongoing US-Iran talks. "When we can re...