China's Mars rover drove from its landing platform and began exploring the surface on Saturday, state-run Xinhua news agency said, making the country only the second nation to land and operate a rover on the Red Planet. The launch last July of the ...

Ja Morant scored a team-high 35 points as the Memphis Grizzlies beat the Golden State Warriors 117-112 in overtime on Friday to close out the play-in tournament and grab the final seed in the NBA playoffs. Morant helped clinched the winner-take-all...

The National Hockey League slapped Nazem Kadri with an eight game ban on Friday, the fifth time the Colorado Avalanche forward has been suspended in his career. Kadri was suspended for an illegal check to the head of St. Louis Blues player Justin F...

The world's most prestigious architecture event, the Venice Architecture Biennale, opens Saturday for a six-month show exploring the question of coexistence in a post-pandemic world. Postponed from last year, the 17th International Architecture Exh...

Whenever Marilena returns to Crete, it only takes a short spell with friends before her native island dialect kicks back in. But the 44-year-old mother of two knows that her young son and baby daughter will likely never fully learn the distinctive ...

A new public park skimming the surface of the Hudson River atop 132 concrete "tulips" opened Friday for New Yorkers eager to emerge from a year of onerous pandemic restrictions. Little Island, which can be accessed free-of-charge by two pedestrian ...

Hungary's Roma community has been largely left out of the country's aggressive Covid-19 immunisation rollout and has been forced to fend for itself, leaders of the poverty-stricken minority say. "No one else is looking after us, so we have to do it...

Covid-19 has caused the death of more than one million people in Latin America and the Caribbean where slow vaccine rollouts are preventing an exit from the pandemic crisis. Since the coronavirus was first detected in the region in Sao Paulo in lat...

Nepal's parliament was dissolved for the second time in five months Saturday and new elections called for November as the Himalayan country battled political turmoil alongside the coronavirus pandemic. President Bidhya Devi Bhandari made the order ...

Myanmar's junta has threatened to dissolve the political party of ousted civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi over alleged voter fraud in the 2020 election, an official said. Union Election Commission chair Thein Soe said Friday the investigation into ...

A spike in Covid-19 cases in Taiwan has burst its travel bubble with Palau, but the small Pacific island nation's president said Saturday he was ready to reopen the link as soon as practical. The Palau-Taiwan bubble was hailed as a "ray of light" w...

The Eurovision Song Contest final returns in Rotterdam on Saturday after a year off, bringing giant angel wings, cheesy lyrics and a message of hope in the time of coronavirus. Italy, France and Malta are the favourites to win a unique version of t...

Chinese-born Australian academic and author Yang Jun will go on trial in China on espionage charges next week, after spending more than two years in detention, Canberra's foreign minister has confirmed. Yang is one of two high-profile Australians d...

Hackers have stolen data on about 4.5 million Air India passengers around the world in the latest breach reported by a major airline. Names, credit card numbers and passport information were among the data stolen, Air India said in a statement rele...

The lush volcanic hills surrounding Volvic in central France have long been a source of mineral water prized worldwide, but locals and geologists warn that too much is now being pumped out, putting the entire region at risk. "We used to have water ...