Ace leg-spinner Yasir Shah has been demoted to reserves for the three-Test series, which will be played in Rawalpindi, Karachi and Lahore beginning March 4. Australia last toured Pakistan in 1998, declining to visit the cricket-crazed nation in the...

Freestyle skier Gu has inspired ecstasy and adulation among Chinese fans, but figure skater Zhu has endured a torrent of online abuse after two blunder-filled performances. The 18-year-old Gu -- known as Gu Ailing in China -- cemented herself as on...

At the start of the pandemic in 2020, South Korea was hit by one of the worst early outbreaks of the disease outside China but brought it under control with mass testing and aggressive contact tracing. The strategy earned the country widespread pra...

Why did the outbreak in Baise spark fears around the world about the key metal? Where is Baise? Located near the border with Vietnam, Baise is nicknamed the "aluminium capital of southern China". Home to around 3.5 million people, Baise is a hub f...

De Lima was one of the most vocal and powerful local critics of Duterte after he took power in 2016 and launched a deadly drug war -- until he and his allies tried to stifle her. But despite being forced from the Senate and into a jail cell for th...

Hong Kong has followed mainland China in maintaining a strict "zero-Covid" policy that has kept infections low through targeted lockdowns and extensive social distancing measures. On Tuesday the city recorded 625 new infections, a daily record but ...

She turned off the heating in two bedrooms of her apartment. "Only the living room and the kitchen were heated, but at a minimum. We try to keep warm with blankets," the 61-year-old woman said. Energy prices in Turkey and other countries have soar...

Vlhova clocked a combined total of 1min 44.98sec over the two runs to edge Austria's reigning world champion Katharina Liensberger into silver by eight-hundredths of a second, with Switzerland's Wendy Holdener claiming bronze at 0.12sec. Shiffrin, ...

To illustrate its newfound optimism, the Communist Party of France (PCF) has picked the most upbeat slogan in the campaign so far: "Happy Days for France" -- a reference to a French Resistance manifesto during World War II, from which it emerged as ...

A cautious Macron, saying he is preoccupied with the Covid pandemic and averting war between Russia and Ukraine, has kept his powder dry by refraining from officially declaring himself a candidate ahead of the first round of voting on April 10. Thi...

Taiwan and Somaliland are both thriving, self-run democracies that remain mostly unrecognised by the wider world. Finding common ground in their peculiar and isolated international status, the two have forged strong ties since swapping de facto em...

The Russian team won the gold medal with the United States taking silver and Japan bronze, but the ceremony was removed from its scheduled slot on Tuesday. International Olympic Committee spokesman Mark Adams cited a "legal consultation" with the s...

The three-time champion will retire from competition after the Games and the 35-year-old looked in danger of going out with a whimper after fluffing his first run, falling over and scoring just 24.25 to leave him a lowly 19th. With only the top 12 ...

While international tensions have soared in recent months over fears Moscow could stage a full-scale invasion, the looming threat of the Russians has been with the Ukrainian forces protecting the frontier a lot longer. Eight years ago, before the ...

Booker scored a game-high 35 points and Bridges finished with 23 as the NBA-leading Suns improved to 44-10 with 22 victories on the road in front of a crowd of 20,700 at Wells Fargo Center arena. "Our goal is what everybody knows it is," coach Mont...