Ma has kept a low profile ever since mainland officials spiked what would have been a world record $37 billion initial public for Alibaba's financial group Ant last November. That shock decision kicked off what became a cascading series of crackdow...

Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra announced this month that around 154 officers had been identified for "possible criminal liability" over police operations carried out during President Rodrigo Duterte's drug war. Most of the 52 cases reviewed by...

The 31-year-old right-arm quick, who has notched 81 career Test wickets, has struggled with injury in the lead-up to the highly anticipated series. "I really wanted to give the Ashes a crack," he said in a statement, lamenting injury had made adequ...

Australia-based mining giant Rio Tinto on Wednesday announced plans to cut direct carbon emissions 50 percent by 2030, ramping up previous targets as the firm tries to green its highly polluting operations. Rio Tinto said it would spend around $7.5...

Olympic gold medallist Xander Schauffele makes his return to Japan this week, but admitted Wednesday that Hideki Matsuyama is the man the home spectators will be clamouring to see. The duo will form the signature group when the Zozo Championship te...

British annual inflation cooled slightly in September, official data showed Wednesday, remaining close to a nine-year peak that still risks a UK interest rate rise next month. The annual inflation rate fell to 3.1 percent from 3.2 percent in August...

Most Asian markets rose again on Wednesday, joining a global rally fuelled by strong earnings, while investors kept tabs on comments from the Federal Reserve as it prepares to bring an end to its vast financial support programme. Signs of progress ...

A bomb attack on an army bus in Damascus killed at least 13 people Wednesday in the bloodiest such attack in years, the SANA state news agency reported. "A terrorist bombing using two explosive devices targeted a passing bus" at a key bridge in the...

The mother of a murdered Hong Kong woman blasted the authorities on Wednesday for allowing her daughter's killer to live as a free man, a case that has festered because China does not recognise Taiwan. Poon Hiu-wing, 19, was pregnant when she was s...

A Brazilian senate committee will on Wednesday ask that President Jair Bolsonaro be charged with "intentional" crimes over his management of the Covid-19 pandemic, which has left 600,000 of his compatriots dead. Following six months of eventful hea...

More than 100 people have died in several days of massive flooding and devastating landslides that swept away roads and houses in India and Nepal, officials said Wednesday, with scores more missing. In Uttarakhand in northern India, officials said ...

Russia hosts the Taliban for talks in Moscow on Wednesday, seeking to assert its influence on Central Asia and push for action against Islamic State fighters which it says have massed in perennially volatile Afghanistan. The talks, which draw offic...

Japan's new gymnastics king Daiki Hashimoto is his own man, legendary veteran Kohei Uchimura said Wednesday, urging the Tokyo Olympics double gold medallist to ignore comparisons. Hashimoto announced himself to the world in spectacular fashion this...

One of the leaders of FARC, the Colombian guerrilla group turned political party, was arrested Tuesday in Mexico. Rodrigo Granda, head diplomat for the Marxist group, was held under a "red notice" from Interpol, Colombian Defense Minister Diego Mol...

Real Madrid forward Karim Benzema goes on trial in France on Wednesday accused of complicity in the attempted blackmail of former international teammate Mathieu Valbuena, a case known as the "sextape affair". Benzema, 33, is suspected of helping a ...