AFP looks at how cash-strapped Sri Lanka ended up in its worst-ever economic crisis, and what comes next in its complicated, corrupt and sometimes violent political system. Why did Rajapaksa flee? Sri Lanka's financial woes were triggered by the cor...

The exchange of fire came hours after US President Joe Biden visited Israel and the occupied West Bank. "A short while ago, IDF fighter jets struck a military site in the central Gaza Strip belonging to the Hamas terrorist organisation," a statemen...

During talks on the Indonesian resort island of Bali, finance chiefs from Western nations accused Russian technocrats of complicity in the invasion. US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and Australian Treasurer Jim Chalmers on Friday blamed the invas...

The inspector general of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Joseph Cuffari, told Congress earlier this week that his office has had difficulties obtaining records of text messages from the Secret Service, the law enforcement agency that prot...

Nineteen years after first competing at her first World Athletics Championships in 2003 as a skinny teenage prodigy, the 36-year-old signed off with the 19th world championship medal of her career as the United States claimed bronze in the 4x400m mi...

The Dominican Republic took gold in 3min 09.82sec and the Femke Bol-powered Dutch quartet silver. It was not quite the dream swansong for the 36-year-old Felix, who received the baton from Elija Godwin on the second leg at Hayward Field but let the...

Reavie's bogey-free round gave him a two-round total of 28 points under the Modified Stableford scoring system used for the tournament, which awards points for birdies and better and deducts them for bogeys and worse. He was three points clear of o...

Kerley, who set a world lead of 9.76sec when winning the US trials on the same Hayward Field track o go eighth in the all-time fastest list, had a slick start and cruised through the line without seeming to break sweat. If Kerley underlined his sta...

The new company -- owning brands including Sensodyne toothpaste, pain relief drug Panadol and cold treatment Theraflu -- is set for a valuation of about £40 billion ($47.4 billion) when it begins trading on the London stock market, according to Blo...

The meeting in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia's second city on the Red Sea coast, will bring together leaders of the six-member Gulf Cooperation Council as well as Egypt, Jordan and Iraq. Biden landed Friday in Saudi Arabia, a longtime US ally he once vowed...

The 77-year-old is now awaiting a ruling by a Colombian judge on whether she should be extradited to the United States, where she risks a 25-year jail sentence. Gonzalez's purses, clutches and wallets sell for thousands of US dollars apiece, have a...

Just days before the first court hearing in Twitter's lawsuit seeking to force the Tesla boss to close the $44 billion deal, the firm is stuck in limbo. "The best conclusion for me would be that he leaves us alone, so that we can go on our merry wa...

The statement did not specify the circumstances, but US media reported that police had been investigating whether the 73-year-old died falling down the stairs at her Manhattan home. A spokesperson for the New York Police Department told AFP in an e...

There was no such drama on the track with American veteran Allyson Felix's hopes of a medalling swansong were kept alive as the US team went through to the final of the 4x400m mixed relay. There was a historic first ever world medal for Peru as Kim...

In a court document cited by US media, Musk's lawyers accuse Twitter's board of directors of wanting to expedite the case. Twitter on Tuesday sued Musk for breaching the contract he signed to buy the tech firm, calling his exit strategy "a model o...