Originally from Moldova, the 59-year-old former weightlifter set up the Olvio Nuvo vineyard in 2013 on the slopes of the estuary of Ukraine's long Southern Bug river. It owes its name to the ancient Greek city of Olbia, founded in the seventh centu...

The TUIK state statistics agency said that consumer prices rose by 80.2 percent in August from a year earlier. The figure was fractionally higher than the 79.6 percent reported in July and only a small bump up from the 78.6 percent reading in June....

The 35-year-old opener managed just 15, one and five in Australia's 2-1 ODI series win against Zimbabwe last week, following two consecutive ducks in the final two games of their recent series in Sri Lanka. With the T20 World Cup on home soil in Oc...

Based on the bestselling, semi-fictionalised book by Joyce Carol Oates, it is a dark retelling of the iconic actress's life that lifts the lid on the trauma and fierce intelligence behind the bubbly, sexualised image of the time. It looks set to p...

Many are just curious but others are driven by nostalgia for a past that weighs heavily on the party tipped for victory in the general election on September 25 -- Giorgia Meloni's post-fascist Brothers of Italy. A white marble bust of "Il Duce" ado...

A number of governments have expressed concerns over cryptocurrencies, but those behind the first Crypto Policy Symposium say they hope the event will prompt much more "critical discourse" of the sector. "There are so many crypto conferences but th...

Although Chileans previously voted in droves for a rewrite of the current constitution, adopted in 1980 during the Augusto Pinochet dictatorship (1973-1990), opinion polls suggest the new text will be rejected. Social upheaval that began in 2019 as...

The camp, in the grounds of a small railway station on the outskirts of Fazilpur in Pakistan's Punjab province, is the only high ground in a landscape of water, and accommodates around 500 people. They include Fahmidah, 40, who arrived with her fiv...

Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare said a review of the makeshift ban was "progressing very well. We do not expect the temporary moratorium to last for a long time". Two weeks ago, US Coast Guard ship Oliver Henry opted to turn away from Honiara, cap...

The two mongrels are victims of a surge in pet abandonments as the city experiences an exodus of residents due to China's crackdown on dissent as well as some of the world's strictest Covid restrictions. They were brought to Hong Kong Dog Rescue (H...

Savea will miss the match in Melbourne on September 15, which doubles up as the first Bledisloe Cup Test, to be with his family. The 28-year-old is expected to return for the second Bledisloe Test against Australia on September 24 at Auckland's Ede...

Deputy President William Ruto was declared the winner of the tightly fought race, scraping to victory by a narrow margin of less than two percentage points against Raila Odinga, a veteran opposition politician now backed by the ruling party. Odinga...

Medvedev was deposed as US Open champion on Sunday by Kyrgios as the fiery Australian stormed to an electrifying 7-6 (13/11), 3-6, 6-3, 6-2 win to reach his first quarter-final in New York. "Nick today played kind of at the level of Novak and Rafa,...

Tomljanovic -- who knocked out tennis icon Williams in the third round on Friday -- advanced to the last eight with a 7-6 (10/8), 6-1 victory over Samsonova. The 29-year-old world number 46 will play either Tunisia's Ons Jabeur or Russia's Veronika...

The closely watched payrolls for August showed employment growth moderating and unemployment ticking higher, easing pressure on the Federal Reserve to sharply lift interest rates. In response to the figures, traders lowered their expectations for ...