Fiji will be without try-scoring machine Semi Radradra when they face the All Blacks next month, with coach Vern Cotter choosing to blood Canterbury Crusaders breakout star Manasa Mataele in his absence. Winger Radradra was not named in Fiji's 33-m...

Indonesian doubles badminton champion Markis Kido has died at the age of 36 after he collapsed during a casual match, the country's badminton association said. Kido, who won gold in men's doubles at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, passed out while playi...

Dubai-based Emirates airline on Tuesday posted a $5.5 billion annual loss, its first in more than three decades, after the coronavirus pandemic devastated the aviation industry. "Due to ongoing pandemic-related flight and travel restrictions, the a...

Myanmar junta witnesses were set to testify on Tuesday against deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi on charges of sedition and flouting coronavirus restrictions, in a trial that could see the Nobel laureate jailed for more than a decade. The country has...

A herd of elephants on a mammoth trek across China is taking an enforced break -- as they wait for a wayward youngster to catch-up. The 10-year-old got sidetracked from the family walk several days ago, and is now lagging around 14 kilometres (nine...

Australia's conservative government bowed to public pressure and announced the release of a Tamil asylum-seeking family from island detention Tuesday, after the youngest daughter fell ill. The Murugappan family of four have been held at the remote ...

Turkish pop singer Seref Erdeniz had run out of options by the time he sold his guitar to pay the bills in the second year of coronavirus bans on live music. Most frustratingly for the fresh-faced 34-year-old, the buzzing bars of Istanbul that he o...

In a room warmed by an open wood stove, Baima says her family converted their white-brick house into a hotel as China's Communist leadership ushers tens of millions of tourists to the politically sensitive region of Tibet. Surrounded by mist-covere...

South Africans are under the spotlight ahead of the US Open at Torrey Pines, while there's been another breakthrough win on the LPGA Tour in AFP Sport's golf talking points this week: - 'Watch this space' - Left-hander Garrick Higgo became the you...

Beijing on Tuesday accused NATO of exaggerating the threat from China and "creating confrontation", after a vow from the Western allies to work together to counter the "systemic challenges" posed by its policies. NATO leaders made the commitment on...

A French court is to rule Tuesday on claims Swedish furniture giant Ikea set up an elaborate system to illegally spy on hundreds of employees and job applicants from 2009 to 2012, using private detectives as well as police. Prosecutors asked for a ...

Alex Martinez scored the eventual winner and Marc-Andre Fleury stopped 28 shots as the Vegas Golden Knights defeated the Montreal Canadiens 4-1 in the opening game of their NHL semi-final playoff series. Shea Theodore finished with a goal and an as...

A huge red banner welcomed nearly 9,000 students in Wuhan for a massive graduation ceremony over a year after the city was battered by the first global outbreak of Covid-19. Students in navy gowns and mortarboards sat in crowded rows, without soci...

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte will "never cooperate" with an International Criminal Court probe into the country's deadly drug war, his spokesman said Tuesday, branding the process "legally erroneous". Outgoing ICC chief prosecutor Fatou Ben...

Veteran war correspondent Christiane Amanpour on Monday announced that she has recently undergone "major surgery" for ovarian cancer, and faced months of chemotherapy treatment. "Like millions of women around the world, I've been diagnosed with ova...