Near the capital's Tha Tian pier, where tourists catch ferries to the landmark Wat Arun, Irishman Alex Brady said the forthcoming one-month limit would have affected his plans a lot -- because he and his friends "initially came here with no plan at ...

Private Chinese company Landbridge acquired a 99 year lease to Darwin Port in 2015, prompting criticism of Australia from then-US president Barack Obama. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese pledged last year to return the northern port -- which sits ac...

Senator Ronald "Bato" Dela Rosa, who served as the nation's police chief, was the enforcer of the drug war that killed thousands of people in the Philippines. Dela Rosa is on the run after fleeing the Senate building last week, hours after a shooti...

After an hours-long ordeal, his assailants freed him, bruised and bloodied. "I feared for my life. I had no idea what they were planning to do with me," Voja, who asked to be identified only by his first name, told AFP. Weeks later, he is still vi...

Belli, one of Latin America's most influential literary voices, said husband-and-wife co-presidents Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo fear voices that expose their betrayal of the leftist Sandinista revolution that toppled the US-backed right-wing r...

The last-minute agreement on bonuses -- which union members will vote on -- was struck late Wednesday, with plans for an 18-day strike from Thursday put on hold until further notice. The dispute takes place against the backdrop of a global artifici...

The International Court of Justice has been asked to deliver a so-called advisory opinion on whether a treaty drawn up in 1948 by the International Labour Organisation implicitly enshrines the right to strike. The treaty, known as Convention 87, is...

In 2018, Lucu, now 33, was in the stands at San Mames Stadium the last time the decider was held in the Basque city, as the Irish province edged French club Racing 92 to the title. He travelled two hours to Bilbao from the French part of the Basqu...

The 19-year-old rising star of Italian sport leads the Briton, nine years his senior and the pre-season favourite for the title, by 20 points after four rounds of the 22-race championship as Mercedes unveil a major upgrade package. For Russell, it ...

In one of Europe's most one-sided derbies Juve have not lost to Torino in 11 years but the pressure is on for a victory over their local rivals whose mid-table position in Italy's top flight does not reflect their ability to make things difficult fo...

Having been largely kept in check in Monday's game one loss to the Spurs, the league's back-to-back Most Valuable Player scored 30 points and provided nine assists. The Thunder's home win poises the series at 1-1, with the teams next headed to San ...

South Korea's Suwon went down 2-1 to North rivals Naegohyang Women's FC in Wednesday's Asian Women's Champions League semi-final, which was played at Suwon's home stadium. Interest in the rare North-South match was intense, and 7,087 general admiss...

Morocco stunned Spain and Portugal en route to the semi-finals at the last global showpiece in Qatar four years ago before falling to France. Now, as the United States, Canada and Mexico prepare to co-host a record 48 nations, the football world wo...

The show, which Colbert has hosted since 2015, was axed after he mocked the broadcaster for a $16 million settlement with Trump for allegedly "maliciously" editing an interview with his Democratic election rival Kamala Harris. Colbert called it a "...

"In the most brazen act of presidential corruption this century, President Donald J. Trump has created a $1.776 billion taxpayer-funded slush fund to finance the insurrectionists and paramilitary groups that commit violence in his name," the officer...