Dozens of polling stations experienced unprecedented ballot paper shortages on June 3 for the first nationwide vote since President Lee Jae Myung took office a year ago. The controversy prompted the resignation of National Election Commission (NEC)...

Labour party veteran and Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham is looking to win the parliamentary by-election for the Makerfield constituency in northwestern England, so that he can then try to replace Starmer as prime minister. Polling stations o...

Taipei relies heavily on Washington's support to counter growing pressure from Beijing, which claims Taiwan as part of its territory and has not ruled out seizing it by force. "We hope that the arms purchases can be approved as soon as possible," P...

New York erupted in jubilant scenes Saturday when the Knicks broke a 53-year drought to defeat the San Antonio Spurs away in Texas. Police said 10,000 officers would be on hand for the parade, the department's largest ever deployment for a planned ...

Messi's still got it Lionel Messi's World Cup odyssey appeared to reach its perfect climax in Qatar four years ago when he lifted the trophy. Or so we thought. As his 39th birthday approaches, the Argentina captain could not resist one last crack at...

Antoine Dupont's Toulouse have reached the last four having finished the regular season at the top of the standings and scored a record 981 points across the campaign. Manu's Racing booked their place in the semis with a 33-31 win over Pau in last ...

Cuba has been running on empty since the United States in January cut off its fuel imports as part of a pressure campaign aimed at forcing changes to the communist island's economic model, if not its leaders in Havana. Transport across the island, ...

The gap was easy to spot at the Robotics Summit in Boston in late May. The glossy brochures promised one thing. The people who actually build the machines said another. Elon Musk loves to show off his Optimus prototype, recently filmed jogging in s...

Australia's most-capped player called time on his Test career after his 151st cap against New Zealand last October and was given an emotional send-off. But after a stellar Super Rugby campaign and with the Wallabies facing a front-row injury crisis...

Scotland's famously good-natured travelling supporters had waited nearly 30 years for the chance to follow their team to a World Cup and the thousands who have made the journey to the tournament are merrily making up for lost time, to the delight of...

Historically, anyone born on US soil automatically has the right to citizenship. Trump wants to end that as part of wider restrictions on immigration. As Supreme Court justices prepare their ruling, Americans got a vivid illustration of the policy ...

Caleb Yirenkyi bundled in the winning goal in the fifth minute of stoppage time, sending thousands of Ghanaians in Canada's largest city into a frenzy and settling an otherwise attritional battle. Both sides largely struggled to generate chances in...

The plague is generally associated with rats spreading the disease through crowded medieval cities, sparking pandemics such as the Black Death that killed tens of millions of people across Europe from the 1300s to 1800s. This was a long way from th...

The competitor to Elon Musk's X platform was announced in January but it will be available to the public initially by invitation in the coming days and weeks. At a launch event in Brussels, the company touted that top officials including EU chiefs ...

Kane scored twice in the first half of a chaotic encounter in Texas, one a retaken penalty, only for 2018 runners-up Croatia to fight back to go in 2-2 at the break. England started the second half with a bang, Real Madrid midfielder Jude Bellingha...