The election has been one of the tightest Latin American leadership contests in decades, with crime and political instability dominating a race to choose the country's ninth leader in a decade. Keiko Fujimori's victory would mark the return of her...

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. Two H5 cases have been confirmed in migratory birds found in the state of W...

Five-time World Cup winners Brazil will expect to go through but they come up against a Scotland side in Miami determined to qualify for the knockout round for the first time in their history. Morocco, who held Brazil to a 1-1 draw in an early high...

Scientists have shown that recurring heatwaves are a clear marker of global warming, and warn they are set to become more frequent, longer and more intense. First major French power cut The record-breaking heatwave left around 68,000 households wi...

Close US ally Japan in April loosened rules on lethal arms exports and Takaichi, long seen as a security hawk who last year riled China with comments about Taiwan, has said she wants to revise the constitution. A small but vocal number of demonstra...

Victory in Guadalajara, courtesy of a 76th-minute goal from Daniel Munoz, took them top of Group K with six points -- two clear of Cristiano Ronaldo's Portugal with one game to go in the first round. Portugal, held 1-1 by DR Congo in their opening ...

Authorities in Vietnam's capital have been on a demolition blitz, knocking down thousands of homes to make way for bridges and other infrastructure projects as part of a 100-year master plan approved last month. One 11,000-hectare area along the Re...

The two teams have very different objectives, with the hosts looking to reignite their Test form after losing seven of eight matches played in the current World Test Championship (WTC) cycle while Sri Lanka, who lie third, will want to press their c...

Stokes and fast bowler Gus Atkinson were dropped from the second Test after breaking a midnight curfew in an incident at a London nightclub while celebrating England's first Test win at Lord's. McCullum said he was concerned and worried about Stoke...

The House-passed measure, adopted by the Senate in a 50-48 vote, directs Trump to remove US forces from hostilities with Iran unless Congress explicitly authorizes military action. Because the measure is a "concurrent resolution," it does not go to...

China isn't the most obvious place for Japan fandom to thrive -- the two countries' historical animosity is never far from the surface and relations have been tense since hawkish Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi took office in Tokyo last year. But fo...

The hermetic nation is under multiple sets of sanctions over a nuclear programme its leaders have vowed to pursue as an essential deterrent to the United States and South Korea. Kim made his remarks at the commissioning of the Choe Hyon -- one of t...

Fears are growing of AI-driven disruption to labour markets and the security risks it poses -- from use in conflict to breaches of cyber defences and the potential creation of new bioweapons. "The speed of technological progress is unprecedented," ...

The side's owners announced earlier this year they were pulling out of the venture after failing to put it on a sustainable commercial footing. The governments of New Zealand, Samoa and Tonga stepped in to help broker a lifeline, but governing bod...

Austria's 1-0 defeat to West Germany at the 1982 World Cup has lived on in World Cup infamy as "the disgrace of Gijon" after the teams played out a result that would take both through at the expense of Algeria on goal difference. After worldwide co...