The hushed-up, nighttime operation was the result of years of negotiations, tricky logistical planning and multiple technical studies to ensure the integrity of the medieval artwork. Fears for the safety of the lace-like delicate tapestry, which ha...

The Munster lock has been capped 71 times and assumed the responsibility mid-way through a Test before, but has never started as skipper. That will change on Saturday in Newcastle, north of Sydney, when Ireland face Eddie Jones's Japan in the Natio...

Even Pacific nations indebted to Beijing joined criticism of Monday's submarine-launched ballistic missile test, which reached far into the Pacific Ocean. The term "Blue continent" is used by Pacific Islands to describe a joint home and shared stew...

Meredith has been rushed into the team after Carter Gordon and Ben Donaldson were both ruled out with calf injuries. The 27-year-old Meredith had a brilliant start to the Super Rugby season, but faded in the latter half as the ACT Brumbies' challen...

Typhoon Bavi is expected to pound Taiwan's north and east, as well as Japan's remote southwestern islands, on Friday and Saturday before smashing into China, which has been hit by deadly storms this week. Two landslides triggered by heavy rains dri...

AFP journalists at the British Museum saw a metal case holding the 11th-century work being unloaded from a truck which carried it across the Channel in a hushed-up, high-security operation. "It's a unique moment and it's the product of so much hard...

On the agenda are trade, tourism and sport -- but recent undercurrents of anti-migrant sentiment risk tarnishing his trip to a nation long proud of its tolerance. New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon celebrated the signing in April of the f...

Pyongyang is under widespread sanctions over its nuclear programme, and the two Koreas remain technically at war as their 1950-53 conflict ended without a peace treaty. The announcement comes after North Korea has repeatedly spurned South Korean Pr...

Australia was for years the only continental landmass to be free of the H5 strain, which has caused severe disease and high death rates in poultry and wild birds worldwide. A total of 12 cases of H5 bird flu have been confirmed in Australia since J...

The attacks cast a shadow over the first trip by a European Union head of state since Bashar al-Assad was toppled in late 2024, as President Ahmed al-Sharaa tries to rebuild the country's image after more than a decade of conflict. In a joint press...

"The revolution has now become long term," said one section commander of the pro-democracy People's Defence Force (PDF) at a secret training base in Sagaing. "Even soldiers who joined years ago are starting to have doubts and uncertainties about wh...

Typhoon Bavi is expected to pound Taiwan's north and east, as well as Japan's remote southwestern islands, on Friday and Saturday before smashing into China, which has been hit by deadly storms this week. Locals in the port city of Keelung, which i...

The landmark announcement was made Friday during a visit to Melbourne by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi as part of a broader strategy to strengthen cooperation between the two countries. Melbourne Renegades will take on defending champions Per...

The team that had shown such swashbuckling football in the previous rounds produced an under-par performance as they fell 2-0 to the French in the quarter-final in Foxborough, Massachusetts. Azirar, 18, was still reeling from the defeat after watch...