The posts, dating back to 2010, came to light just days after Alaa Abdel Fattah returned to Britain following years of diplomatic efforts by London to secure his release from detention in Egypt. British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said he was "deli...

The armed forces snatched power in a 2021 coup, but on Sunday opened voting in a phased month-long election they pledge will return power to the people. "We won 82 lower house seats in townships which have finished counting, out of the total of 102...

A special ceremony and a show by performers from Mariupol and the Russian city of Saint Petersburg were held on Sunday, with Russian television showing images of the gala event as well as the theatre's rebuilt marble staircase and columns, and a 2.5...

The 40-year-old announced this month that he plans to call it quits, with the United Cup in Perth starting Friday the beginning of the end for the popular Swiss star. "Of course, I'm still passionate about the game, about the sport I love," he said...

Festive swearing in Just after the stroke of midnight on New Year's Eve, New York Attorney General Letitia James -- friend to Mamdani, foe to President Donald Trump -- will swear in the new mayor. In a high-stakes tit-for-tat, James recently sued Tru...

The crucial meeting at Trump's lavish Mar-a-Lago resort comes as some White House officials fear both Israel and Hamas are slow-walking the second phase of their ceasefire. Trump, who said Netanyahu had asked for the talks, is reportedly keen to an...

The armed forces snatched power in a 2021 coup, but on Sunday opened voting in a phased month-long election they pledge will return power to the people. The massively popular but dissolved party of democratic figurehead Aung San Suu Kyi did not app...

Father and son Sajid and Naveed Akram are accused of targeting a Hanukkah event on Sydney's Bondi Beach on December 14, killing 15 people and wounding dozens in what authorities have described as an antisemitic terrorist attack. Seventeen families ...

Under the world governing body's four-tier rating system "unsatisfactory" is the second lowest, characterising a pitch "favouring the bowlers too much". It broke the venue's streak of "very good" ratings for  the past three Boxing Day Tests and e...

"We left everything behind," said the 47-year-old, who escaped with his family of seven from Keiklek, near the South Sudanese border. "Our animals and our unharvested crops -- all of it." Hussein spoke to AFP from Kosti, an army-controlled city in...

Kim Keon Hee, the wife of disgraced ex-president Yoon Suk Yeol, was arrested in August and is under investigation for alleged stock manipulation and receiving gifts from the cult-like Unification Church. She has also been accused of meddling in par...

The incident took place with 2:06 remaining in the third quarter of Phoenix's 123-114 victory at New Orleans on Saturday. Alvarado committed a defensive foul on Williams as he set a pick. Williams shoved Alvarado in the back and the smaller Pelican...

Beijing claims Taiwan as part of its sovereign territory and has refused to rule out using military action to seize the island democracy. The latest show of force follows a bumper round of arms sales to Taipei by the United States, Taiwan's main se...

The Surrey right-armer hobbled off early on day two of the fourth Test in Melbourne clutching his left leg and took no further part. "Gus Atkinson has been ruled out for the remainder of the Ashes tour after scans confirmed he has sustained a left ...

Bardot, who died on Sunday aged 91, argued she was unfairly labelled as a supporter of the anti-immigration far right after she made explosive remarks in the late 1990s about Muslims slaughtering sheep. "I never asked anyone to be racist and I don'...