Saudi Arabia's GDP is expected to shrink by 3.3 percent, the International Monetary Fund said in its latest World Economic Outlook report, predicting a regional drop over Iran's blockading of the Strait of Hormuz. The report was compiled before 13 ...

The 62-year-old South African masterminded the Springboks' 2007 World Cup triumph and went on to coach teams in Australia, South Africa, France and Japan. He was technical adviser to Tonga before joining the Bulls in Pretoria in 2020 as director of...

Speaking to AFP on the sidelines of the organisation's Annual Meetings in Bangkok, IMF deputy director of research Petya Koeva Brooks said heavily indebted, oil-importing countries were facing the worst of the energy shock, and had difficult choices...

Parliament passed a bill to amend the law with 139 votes in favour and 51 votes against, marking the first significant reversal of Orban's curbs targeting the LGBTQ community since pro-EU Prime Minister Peter Magyar took power in May. Instead of ba...

The clash featuring the two most recent NFL Most Valuable Players -- opposing quarterbacks Matthew Stafford and Allen -- had been billed as a potential Super Bowl preview, and after a sluggish first half it did not disappoint. On a night in which h...

But the way some players celebrated that benefit has sparked a public backlash, prompting Seoul to reconsider a decades-old system originally designed to reward athletes for bringing prestige to the nation. The controversy erupted after Asian Games...

In its World Economic Outlook (WEO) released at the organization's Annual Meetings in Bangkok, the IMF raised its 2026 global growth forecast by 0.1 percentage points to 3.1 percent, compared with 3.5 percent growth in 2025. It warned that while ma...

In its World Economic Outlook (WEO) released at the organization's Annual Meetings in Bangkok, the Fund raised its 2026 global growth forecast by 0.1 percentage points to 3.1 percent, compared to 3.5 percent growth in 2025. The IMF warned that whil...

The 56-year-old Swiss has lost the support of many associations in his bid to be re-elected to a fourth and final term since he launched and then hastily shelved his plan to allow private investment into the World Cup. Infantino, though, does cruci...

Kevin Walters' Kangaroos are looking to repeat their 2022 triumph when they held off a brave Samoa 30-10 in the final at Old Trafford in England. Since then New Zealand, Tonga and Samoa, in particular, have developed still further. Most of their p...

The 23-year-old, who became famous as a teen for school strikes to demand action on climate change, stood among pupils demonstrating outside a school at the heart of the movement in the capital's largest suburb of Saint-Denis. Thunberg arrived at t...

The 71-year-old will head to the Gemelli hospital in the late morning, Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni told AFP. The surgery to remove a pulmonary nodule, or small growth of tissue in the lung, will mark the pope's first hospitalisation since he bec...

The drivers were guilty of violating the Sabbath, the Jewish day of rest. The boys also insulted the women in the group, including Cohen's wife. "That's where I started to lose my temper," Cohen told AFP. "It touched me personally." The incident p...

The All Blacks trio are benefitting from a World Rugby law change to represent a second nation, in time for the tournament starting in Australia next October, with Samoa having failed to reach the quarter-finals since 1995. Full-back Stevenson, No....

Here is a look at how this year's phenomenon, in which a warmer sea surface shifts global weather patterns, has been affecting people globally: Indonesia and Amazon fires, orangutans rescued El Nino is associated with strong drought in Indonesia, wh...