The Welsh go into the first of two away games against Japan having lost their last 17 Tests -- a record for a Tier One country in the professional era. Conditions are likely to be tricky in steamy Kitakyushu, with temperatures expected to reach 32 ...

The Shandong, measuring more than 300 metres (1,000 feet) and commissioned in 2019, is China's second carrier and is central to its regional ambitions under President Xi Jinping, who has overseen a massive naval buildup that has rattled Asian neighb...

The Welsh go into the first of two away games against Japan having lost their last 17 Tests -- a record for a Tier One country in the professional era. Conditions are likely to be tricky in steamy Kitakyushu, with temperatures expected to reach 32 ...

Ishiba, 68, has been head of a minority government since October when he led the long-dominant Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) to its worst general election result in years. The ruling coalition of the LDP and the smaller Komeito party could lose it...

Last year, half a million devotees took part in the Amarnath pilgrimage to a sacred ice pillar located in a cave in the forested Himalayan hills above the town of Pahalgam. Pahalgam is the site where gunmen on April 22 killed 26 mostly Hindu touris...

Last year, half a million devotees took part in the Amarnath pilgrimage to a sacred ice pillar located in a cave in the forested Himalayan hills above the town of Pahalgam. Pahalgam is the site of an April 22 militant attack during which gunmen ki...

Jones selected two uncapped players to start against the Welsh in southwestern Kitakyushu on Saturday, with another six on the bench. Wales have lost their last 17 Tests -- a record for a Tier One country in the professional era -- and Jones wants ...

France sent a squad with 20 uncapped players to New Zealand for the three-Test series which begins on Saturday in Dunedin. New Zealand named four uncapped players in their matchday 23 Thursday, including Dutch-born lock Fabian Holland and No.8 Chri...

The Metals Company -- a leading deep-sea mining firm -- paid Australia's government science agency to pore through data collected during test mining in the remote Pacific Ocean. Huge tracts of Pacific Ocean seabed are carpeted in polymetallic nodu...

"My daughter had a stomachache, diarrhoea, and a headache," the woman told AFP on condition of anonymity about the incident in the Javan city of Bandung. "She also couldn't stop vomiting until three in the morning." Indonesian President Prabowo Su...

As Formula One returns to the circuit that hosted its first world championship race 75 years ago, the 27-year-old Briton may be caught on the horns of an extraordinary dilemma as he seeks a fifth career victory to secure his seat, and his future, wi...

The seven-time champion will likely be unfazed by his defeat against Evans on the clay of Monte Carlo in 2021 as he tries to take the next step towards a record 25th Grand Slam title. Elsewhere on day four at the All England Club, defending women's...

"We wouldn't be here without it," said Abir Lemseffer, who manages production for the tomato giant Azura. Severe drought driven by climate change has gripped the North African country since 2018, leaving Azura's 800 hectares (2,000 acres) of farms ...

Smith hurt his finger while fielding in the slips during the World Test Championship final at Lord's three weeks ago and was taken to hospital. It sidelined him for the first Test in Barbados that Australia won by 159 runs, and he was sorely missed...

Holland and No.8 Christian Lio-Willie will start against France on Saturday, while prop Ollie Norris and flanker Du'Plessis Kirifi will come off the bench. "This is a huge moment for these men and their families," Robertson said. Holland, 22, was ...