The Six Nations champions meet the Wallabies in Brisbane on Saturday, still smarting from an agonising 34-32 loss to New Zealand in Christchurch last week. Galthie swung the axe and intriguingly moved Bordeaux magician Jalibert into a position he h...

The 18-year-old has set the athletics world alight with a series of scorching runs. He won the 200m at the Australian championships in April in 19.67sec, faster than Usain Bolt at the same age, and made his Diamond League debut last month in Oslo. ...

Only six players from their nail-biting 33-31 victory over the Wallabies in Sydney last week keep their place for the showdown in Newcastle on Saturday. They are backs Stuart McCloskey, Jamie Osborne and Jimmy O'Brien, along with forwards Tom O'Too...

Europe's largest carmaker has come under intense pressure from US tariffs, slimmer profit margins from electric cars and above all intense competition in China, the world's largest auto market. VW, whose 10 brands range from mass-market Seats to pr...

But some political experts and rights groups have criticised the speed and scale of Magyar's moves to demolish the institutions guarding Orban's self-styled "illiberal" democracy that won praise from US President Donald Trump and French far-right le...

"The bears have surrounded us. They come into the house yards, cause damage, eat the fruit off the trees," the 65-year-old told AFP at his home in Kleisoura, just east of the city of Kastoria. The population of brown bears in Greece's mountainous W...

The 56-year-old is the only Labour member of parliament to have publicly said they are a candidate to succeed Starmer, who announced he was quitting last month. Burnham will need to show that he has the support of 81 of Labour's 402 MPs to become a...

The Ocean of Peace Alliance elevated Fiji to one of Australia's few treaty allies and binds each nation to come to the other's "mutual defence". The pact came as Canberra attempts to outmanoeuvre China in the South Pacific, and was signed Monday ho...

Leroy Carter was a surprise choice to start on the left wing for Saturday's Test in Wellington, replacing Caleb Clarke from the All Blacks side that beat France 34-32 in Christchurch a week earlier, while Billy Proctor comes in at outside centre. P...

The 27-year-old ACT Brumbies playmaker was called into the Australia squad for the first time before the Nations Championship opener against Ireland last week. He failed to make the Wallabies bench, but now finds himself as the leading No.10 for Sa...

The report comes as a new heatwave is battering Europe this week, following a record-breaking one in June and an unusually early spring hot spell in May. The average temperature in western Europe reached 20.74C in June, more than 3C above the 1991-...

Faced with an almost-insatiable appetite for electricity in the world's most populous nation, Modi has outlined plans to substantially scale-up nuclear power generation in coming years. Australia lays claim to around 28 percent of the world's uran...

A Chinese submarine test-fired a missile carrying a dummy warhead on Monday, with monitors saying the rocket appeared to land in a patch of ocean somewhere between Solomon Islands, Nauru and Tuvalu. Beijing has said the test was "routine" and natio...

After Australia became the first country in the world to ban under-16s from social media, several EU nations including Denmark and Greece demanded a similar move. The EU says all options are on the table, from a blanket ban on children from social ...

Ito made his international debut in Japan's 27-10 win against Italy in Tokyo last week and the 21-year-old impressed enough to keep his place alongside half-back partner Naoto Saito. "He's a young 10, he's going to have his ups and downs but we've ...