The ruling marks a major setback for Galagodaatte Gnanasara, 51, a Buddhist nationalist monk whose critics accuse him of fuelling anti-Muslim sentiment and religious tensions in Sri Lanka. A three-judge bench ruled that the pardon granted by then p...

Three vehicles belonging to people working on the mountain were partially buried Wednesday, as powerful gusts and torrential rain battered the popular hiking destination, a local official told AFP. No injuries were reported in the incident, which o...

The blaze broke out on the M/V June Aster Wednesday evening about 2.2 kilometres (1.3 miles) offshore, the coast guard said, adding that five casualties had been brought ashore. Video shared by the coast guard on Facebook showed the vessel complete...

Backup quarterback Drew Lock threw for 187 yards and a touchdown to Jackson Smith-Njigba, as reigning champs Seattle rallied from 10-0 down for their 11th consecutive win. The latest loss inflicted more pain on New England quarterback Drake Maye, w...

Over 17,000 athletes and officials are expected to take part in 43 sports at the Nagoya-Aichi Games -- which do not officially start until the opening ceremony on September 19 and will run until October 4. Several events such as basketball, footbal...

Shinnosuke Oka, who won gold in the all-around, team and horizontal bar events at the 2024 Paris Olympics, is facing a race to be fit after suffering a lower back injury last week. The Games begin in Nagoya and the wider Aichi area on September 19,...

The 32-year-old may be tiny in stature but she is a big star back home after adding a third Commonwealth Games gold in July to a bulging medal collection that includes a world gold nine years ago and a Tokyo Olympics silver. The 150cm (4ft 11in) Ch...

World number two Zverev, who bagged his maiden slam at the French Open in June, never looked in trouble as he powered to a 6-2, 7-5, 6-1 victory at the Arthur Ashe Stadium. The 29-year-old German star, a losing finalist at the US Open in 2020, will...

"We even found living corals hidden in a ceiling," he told AFP. Nawee heads a raid unit in the Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation (DNP) that tries to stop the sale of everything from African elephant ivory to monkeys want...

Standing in their way of a rare away win at the Bernadus course in the Netherlands are a Europe team led by England's Charley Hull, competing in her eighth Solheim Cup. Korda will tee off brimming with confidence after a season that has seen her cl...

From Friday, some 381 athletes from 65 federations will gather for three nights of competition at the Zsivotzky Gyula Nemzeti Atletikai Kozpont stadium that hosted the world championships in 2023. Automatic qualifiers for the season-ending Ultimate...

The 20-year-old, who last Sunday became the first Italian to win his home race at Monza since 1966, drives into uncharted territory as the Spanish capital hosts a race for the first time since June 1981, when the legendary Gilles Villeneuve won for ...

Tin is an element vital to the artificial intelligence industry, used as solder to attach microchips to circuit boards and bond together other electronics in data centres. Eastern Myanmar's Man Maw mine emerged suddenly as a global supply lynchpin ...

"NAZA" by Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor promises fresh revelations about the bombing of Gaza based on testimony from Israeli forces. "Shot at night on the rooftops of Tel Aviv, the film reveals in detail the systems behind Israel's calculated mass ...

But the conflict is a mismatch, with the $31 trillion US economy roughly 13 times larger than Canada's, raising questions about the limits of Prime Minister Mark Carney's defiance. Experts say if Carney sticks with targeted retaliation, the Canadia...