The England international has missed Chelsea's past two league games -- a 3-0 defeat by Brentford and a 5-1 win over Bournemouth. "The 26-year-old was absent from Saturday's 5-1 victory over Bournemouth at Stamford Bridge while medical assessments ...

Hundreds of protesters, many wearing straw hats and colourful scarves, had hoped to reach the main conference centre but were stopped by a line of police more than a kilometre away, the road blocked by shipping containers. Some carried fishing nets...

"You need to treat them as an outcast in the region," Malaysian parliamentarian Syed Saddiq Syed Abdul Rahman railed this week talking about the Indonesian fires. His comments go much further than the gentle diplomatic pressure Malaysia's governmen...

A woman teacher and 32 students, mostly younger than 14, died in the building collapse in the city of Peshawar on Thursday morning. "The parents of all these children must receive justice," tailor Muhammad Wahab, who lost his 11-year-old nephew Ham...

The Special Intensive Revision (SIR), launched in June 2025, aims to purge electoral rolls of duplicate, deceased and otherwise ineligible voters. Critics, however, say the exercise has shifted the burden of proof onto voters, forcing millions to e...

Seoul and Tokyo enjoyed healthy gains in early exchanges boosted by chipmakers SK hynix and Kioxia, after having been pummelled on Thursday as investors bailed out of the once-dominant AI sector. The selling had been fuelled by forecast-beating US ...

Foley died in his sleep aged 42 on October 16, 2016 due to a heart rhythm disorder just hours before the two teams were set to meet in the tournament. Foley spent more than two decades with Munster, winning the 2006 and 2008 Champions Cups. "He ...

After years of intense rivalry between the United States and China over globally challenging issues from trade and technology to Taiwan and human rights, the US president's new spokesperson took the two sides' relationship to uncharted territory. Z...

Officers rushed to Silver Rail Elementary in Bend, a city of about 100,000 in the nation's northwest, after reports of a shooter on campus on Thursday afternoon. The three children who died on the scene were aged five, eight and 11, said Bend polic...

Organised by the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP), the campaign has become the focal point of opposition anger over allegations that the revised rolls favour Prime Minister Narendra Modi's ruling party. The Election Commission of India, which oversees v...

"Almost everywhere in the global economy (is) showing resilience I'm not sure I would have predicted five or six months ago," he told an event hosted by IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva at the IMF-World Bank Annual Meetings in Bangkok. World energy p...

Since taking over the World Bank in 2023, the former Mastercard CEO has sketched an ambitious plan to fight poverty by addressing an estimated shortfall in the developing world of 800 million jobs. Addressing the plenary session of the World Bank's...

The impact of the months-long fires has also prompted Singapore's leader to vow legal action against any companies responsible for the blazes that have made regional air quality among the world's worst. Singapore again topped IQAir's live ranking o...

A low-scoring game in Denver saw the Seahawks rally from a 14-3 deficit in the fourth quarter, scoring 11 points to force overtime. Seattle quarterback Sam Darnold, stymied all night by the Broncos defense and sacked five times, was picked off by J...

Ponga, who switched allegiance from Australia to New Zealand this year, scored two tries and pulled off a try-saving tackle as his side fell 24-22 in Sydney on Thursday. He played on for 20 minutes after the injury before leaving the field in the 7...