Gathered around a tandoori oven in the kitchen of a small Kabul restaurant, a group of Afghan women prepare naan for their lunchtime customers. They are all survivors of domestic violence, and many will never be able to return to their families. M...

Norwegian telecoms group Telenor said Thursday it is selling its subsidiary in Myanmar, where it is one of the major operators, as a result of the military coup there. The agreement to sell Telenor Myanmar to M1 Group for $105 million will ensure c...

After days of drama and suspense before handing himself in, South Africa's Jacob Zuma began a 15-month sentence for contempt on Thursday, after spending his first night in jail. The former prisoner of the apartheid regime had kept the country on te...

Taliban fighters on motorbikes roamed a provincial Afghan capital Thursday after a day of heavy fighting that saw them storm the city in their most brazen assault since the United States stepped up its troop withdrawal. The government flew in hundr...

Indonesians have ignored health warnings to stock up on a "miracle cure" for Covid-19 backed by leading politicians and social media influencers, as an out-of-control virus surge sweeps the country. Authorities are reporting hundreds of deaths ever...

Australia's prime minister announced 300,000 coronavirus vaccine doses will be rushed to Sydney Thursday, as the country's largest city struggled to bring a Delta outbreak under control. As a citywide lockdown entered its third week, there were sig...

Ethiopia's construction of a massive dam on a tributary of the Nile River, which the UN Security Council meets about on Thursday, is raising regional tensions notably with Egypt, which depends on the Nile for 97 percent of its water supply. - Ten c...

Roger Federer crashed out of Wimbledon on Wednesday, losing in the quarter-finals to Poland's Hubert Hurkacz. With his 40th birthday in just five weeks' time, there will be doubts over his future in a sport where he is an eight-time Wimbledon winne...

Japanese badminton star Kento Momota said Thursday he feared he might never play at an Olympics after a catalogue of career mishaps, but is feeling "positive" about the Tokyo Games. World number one Momota was banned from Japan's Rio Games team in ...

The Tampa Bay Lightning won their second straight Stanley Cup Wednesday, edging the Montreal Canadiens 1-0 to win the NHL championship series four games to one. Lightning goaltender Andrei Vasilevskiy bounced back from a game-four defeat in Montrea...

Beauden Barrett described his rivalry with Richie Mo'unga as "healthy competition" on Thursday after being awarded the coveted 10 jersey for the All Blacks' weekend Test against Fiji in Dunedin. Barrett -- sporting two black eyes as a result of "f...

Her friends and family tell her to pack up and flee Afghanistan without waiting for the possible return of the Taliban, but sitting on a terrace, smoking a cigarette, Laila Haidari is determined to stay. The founder of a rehabilitation centre for d...

The biggest party in Malaysia's ruling coalition said Thursday it was withdrawing support for the embattled prime minister and urged him to step down. There was no immediate reaction from Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin, but analysts said he was li...

Chinese tech giant Tencent has rolled out a facial recognition "midnight patrol" function to root out children masquerading as adults to get around a government curfew on underage gamers. China bans people under 18 from playing online games between...

South Africa's ex-president Jacob Zuma, once jailed for fighting the apartheid regime, is returning to prison, this time for contempt after handing himself in to authorities. He was jailed for 15 months for snubbing an anti-graft judicial inquiry c...