Pakistan were 18-1 at lunch on the fourth day, with Abdullah Shafique unbeaten on 14 and Azhar Ali three on a low-bouncing and turning National Stadium pitch. The hosts need another 488 runs to win -- the highest successful fourth innings run chase...

The country is facing its worst Covid-19 outbreak since the first wave of the pandemic emerged in Wuhan in late 2019. While the daily caseload is comparatively small, around 5,300 were recorded on Tuesday, the Omicron variant is shaking Beijing's ...

The southern Indian state of Karnataka was on edge for several weeks after a small group of girls in their late teens were prevented from wearing the hijab on school grounds at the end of last year. Demonstrations snowballed across the state and po...

But it is also testament to the talents of a man whose graffiti skills helped him overcome a traumatic youth to become one of France's leading street artists -- a one-time Banksy collaborator who has tagged walls all over the world. Real name Chri...

Towns’ franchise-record masterclass was the highest individual score in a single NBA game this season and laid the foundation for a 149-139 victory on the road in Texas. Thirty-two of Towns’ points haul came in the third quarter. The 26-year-ol...

The American and French firms said they would pull out of Myanmar following growing international pressure from human rights groups to cut financial ties with the junta after last year's military coup. The Yadana gas field in the Andaman Sea provid...

It will be a heavily-revised version of F1's high-speed soap opera, featuring new race management, all-new cars designed to create closer racing, and a reshuffled cast that will launch into the unknown at this weekend’s season-opening Bahrain Gran...

Last year's legal win by a group of high school children had been hailed by environmental groups as a potential legal weapon to fight fossil fuel projects. But the federal court found in favour of an appeal by Environment Minister Sussan Ley, deci...

The tournament's red-hot favourites produced another ruthless display to race to a 4-0 winning record at the one-day showcase, highlighted by an unbeaten 83 from Rachael Haynes. The win puts the six-time champions at the top of the standings with a...

China reported 5,280 new Covid-19 cases on Tuesday, more than double the previous day's tally as the highly-transmissible Omicron variant spreads across a country which has tethered tightly to a 'zero-Covid' strategy. That approach, which pivots on...

Concerns about China's economic outlook saw oil prices suffer fresh selling pressure, with WTI falling back below $100 a week after it hit a 14-year high on the back of Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine. Hopes for progress in talks to bring an e...

She was among five lions suffering from starvation and disease with visibly protruding ribs and flaccid skin, held in grim cages with rusty bars in Khartoum's Al-Qurashi zoo. Conditions worsened as Sudan's economic crisis deepened in the wake of mo...

A short video circulating on social media since Sunday appears to show Dubois, but has not been authenticated and its origin is unknown, as is the date it was filmed. The man, who seems to be in good health in the video, addresses his parents and h...

Images of a mass brawl at a game in Mexico on March 5 that left 26 seriously injured and led to 14 arrests went viral and attracted added attention because the country is set to co-host the 2026 World Cup with the USA and Canada. On the same evenin...

The northeastern province of Jilin was worst hit, accounting for more than 3,000 cases, according to the National Health Commission. Since the coronavirus first emerged in the central city of Wuhan in late 2019, China had successfully suppressed la...