Economist Sean Turnell was working as an advisor to Myanmar civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi when he was detained shortly after the coup in February last year. He has been charged with violating Myanmar's official secrets law and faces a maximum pe...

The 17-year-old tyro took the slopestyle competition by storm, pushing eventual winner Max Parrot of Canada all the way before falling just short of gold. Su has competed in just six World Cup events but already he has become the first men's snowbo...

The bombshell announcement on Sunday was greeted with shock in the Netherlands, with football commentators saying it would leave a large gap at the country's top football club. It also came as the country was reeling from a similar scandal involvin...

A number of summit meetings are being held on Monday to try to find a peaceful solution to the crisis over Ukraine. French President Emmanuel Macron is expected in Moscow, while German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is in Washington to meet Joe Biden. Follo...

The bombshell revelation is the latest from the business daily Calcalist, which had previously reported that police used Pegasus without court authorisation against leaders of an anti-Netanyahu protest movement. Police Commissioner Kobi Shabtai sa...

Surrounded by barren scrubland littered with withered carcasses of sheep and goats, the 56-year-old pastoralist is struggling to keep his beloved animals, and himself, alive. What was left of his herd after a months-long dry spell was decimated by ...

Iran said on Monday removal of U.S. sanctions is Tehran's red line in talks with world powers in Vienna to revive a 2015 nuclear deal, an Iranian foreign ministry spokesman told a news conference, adding that talks will resume on Tuesday.

"I wanted to change the country with my music -- it will help me to create a new Congo," he adds. Idengo -- real name Delphin Katembo -- is the only surviving member of a family of five devastated by conflict in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo...

A cancellation would be the latest chapter of political turmoil in the war-scarred country which, almost four months after a general election, still hasn't chosen a new prime minister. The vote for the head of state -- a post with a four-year manda...

In Vladimir Putin's Russia, teachers are being increasingly caught up in the climate of social conservatism. The 31-year-old Shchegoleva is one of hundreds of educators who recently have been fired or forced to quit over claims of misconduct, in a ...

"It's almost two years since we took the decision to close the borders to Australia," Morrison said, announcing borders will reopen to all visa holders "on the 21st of February of this year". "If you're double vaccinated, we look forward to welcom...

The blaze broke out on Saturday night, according to an official working for Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS), the government body in charge of national parks, who said the fire was "moving very fast". "It is on the grasses, it is spreading and very win...

Beijing has some of the world's most restrictive censorship rules with authorities only approving a handful of foreign films for release each year -- sometimes with major cuts. But reversing endings is rare, and there was widespread anger after cen...

The Canadian, who said chemotherapy left him "at zero percent" when he was diagnosed with Hodgkin lymphoma in 2018, beat 17-year-old Chinese home favourite Su Yiming to win gold with a score of 90.96. "Exactly three years ago I was lying in a hospi...

Cuba on Monday marks 60 years under a US economic blockade that has deeply affected the communist nation's fortunes and shows no signs of being lifted.