After a coalition of states sued Meta in 2023 for allegedly designing addictive features for kids in its apps, four states were selected to represent their claims: California, Colorado, Kentucky and New Jersey. Top prosecutors of those states now a...

An injured Hazlewood missed the entire home Ashes series against England in 2025/26, with warhorse Boland playing all five Tests in his place. But despite the 37-year-old's heroics it was not enough to keep out a fit-again Hazlewood who was reunite...

Rybakina, the reigning Australian Open champion from Kazakhstan, fired 13 aces in a 4-6, 7-6 (7/5), 6-4 victory. "Super happy. It was a very difficult match," Rybakina said after a tight battle lasting 2hr 33min. "In the first set (I made) a few m...

A navy vessel and other ships evacuated 172 people from the stricken passenger vessel, including two Australian tourists, search and rescue official Muhamad Hariyadi told AFP. A 19-year-old Indonesian woman was declared dead, said Hariyadi, an offi...

Fruit seller Ahmed al Ahmed was hailed as a hero after footage showed him disarming a gunman during the December 14 attack, which killed 15 people at a Jewish festival. Ahmed was earlier this year accused of stalking and assaulting his father, char...

To tackle the severe droughts and water shortages that plague the country, Kazakhstan has resorted to cloud seeding, a weather modification method previously unseen in Central Asia. "The aircraft is specifically equipped with a cloud-seeding flare ...

But in a pantheon of colourful characters, Count Binface, a man wearing a rubbish bin over his head, is stealing the show. The self-described "intergalactic space warrior" from the fictional planet Sigma IX takes on hardline anti-immigrant politici...

The 11-day exercises due to begin on Monday are a regular fixture of the summer calendar, designed to steel the United States and South Korea for defence against the nuclear-armed North. Pyongyang calls them rehearsals for an invasion and has stage...

The wedding capped a decade-long relationship and came after days of intense media speculation in Portugal over the location and timing of the ceremony. Ronaldo, 41, shared a photo of the couple's hands with their wedding bands and the caption: "C ...

The Taliban administration, recognised solely by Russia, has imposed a series of restrictions on women that the United Nations has characterised as "gender apartheid". Girls cannot study beyond primary school, a policy the Taliban authorities justi...

Russia's Supreme Court on Monday banned the country's only anti-war party, Yabloko, from the ballot, a decision that was met with "Shame!" chants from around a hundred supporters gathered in front of the building. "I was surprised by how many peopl...

A dozen US states have launched legal action to block a $110 billion move that would see the firm swallow the storied Hollywood studio, claiming the debt-laden deal -- financed by Middle East oil money -- would reduce competition in the movie indust...

Cuba's Communist Party has spent the week celebrating the late revolutionary leader with exhibitions, concerts and conferences. But this August 13 comes amid one of Cuba's worst crises in living memory, with acute shortages of food and water, and c...

After the All Blacks performed a traditional pre-match Haka, 44-year-old Sharks substitute Nonu stepped forward and delivered a response. "We knew the Ma'a Haka was coming," said Rennie, whose team scored eight tries in wet and chilly conditions fo...

Here is what you need to know about the total eclipse, which is the first visible in mainland Europe since 2006. What is an eclipse? Eclipses happen when the Moon passes directly between the Sun and Earth, casting a narrow band of shadow across our ...