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...

Southeast Asia's biggest economy expanded 3.69 percent on-year, the country's statistics agency said, having contracted in 2020 for the first time since 1998 during the region's financial crisis. The healthy rebound came largely on the back of decl...

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...

The exact reasons for the delay and the masks was not immediately clear, but these Olympics are taking place in a Covid-secure "closed loop" bubble. Everyone in the bubble must wear a mask at all times -- except, usually, when they are competing. ...

The Swiss racer clocked 1min 42.69sec, finishing 0.10sec ahead of 41-year-old Frenchman Johan Clarey, while Austrian Matthias Mayer claimed a third Olympic medal in three Games with bronze. An elated Feuz whooped in the finish area after he saw the...

"It's almost two years since we took the decision to close the borders to Australia," Morrison said after a meeting of the national security cabinet. He announced the borders will reopen to all visa holders "on the 21st of February of this year," a...

The 15-year-old landed the quadruple jumps -- when a skater rotates four times in the air -- as she once again demolished the competition in the freestyle programme team event in Beijing. Despite finishing 30 points ahead of second-placed Kaori Sa...

"African champions. What a game! What a team! You did it. Beautiful moment of football, beautiful moment of communion and national pride. Congratulations to our heroes," Senegalese President Macky Sall tweeted after the Lions' win Sunday night. Sal...

The group said it plans to spin off its device segment, including the semiconductor business, in a bid to speed up decision-making and boost stock performance. Shareholders, who have clashed with management on the best way forward for the troubled ...

The bus and its 47 passengers were headed from Sukoharjo in Central Java to a family gathering in neighbouring Yogyakarta province when the driver lost control going downhill, officers said late Sunday. "Witnesses we questioned said they saw the dr...

The 18-year-old, who has captivated China since switching allegiance from the United States in 2019, became disorientated in the air in her second run and one of her skis fell off as she came down in a tangle. She briefly put her hands on her head,...

China, the only major world economy still sticking to a staunch zero-Covid policy, is on high alert for any outbreaks as it hosts the Beijing Winter Olympics. Local officials in the city of Baise in the southern Guangxi region announced Sunday that...

The much-anticipated non-farm payrolls data on Friday saw the Labor Department sharply revise up the previous three months' readings, while also revealing a wage growth surge. With all-important inflation reports this week tipped to show prices ris...

The child's fate drew global attention after he fell down a narrow, 32-metre (100-foot) dry well last Tuesday, and sparked an outpouring of sympathy online. His funeral is to be held in his home village of Ighrane, in the impoverished Rif mountains...