Eighteen-year-old Noélie will be voting for the first time in France's presidential election next month. The literature student hails from a family of left-wingers who aren't big voters. But Noélie has taken another approach, to say the least. She...

Hong Kong used strict travel curbs to keep the virus at bay for two years but these left Asia's world city increasingly isolated and a deadly Omicron outbreak since January has led to an exodus of residents and businesses fleeing its mounting list o...

Organisers of the Paris 2024 Olympics are hoping to sell a record 10 million tickets for the sporting extravaganza with an additional 3.4 million available for the Paralympic Games, the boss of the organising committee said.

India set Bangladesh a target of 230 in Hamilton and then skittled them for 119 in 40.3 overs to keep alive their playoff hopes. In Tuesday's other match, in Wellington, Lanning smashed an unbeaten 135 as Australia cruised past South Africa's 271-5...

The sparsely populated Marshall Islands, whose president is conducting a five-day visit to Taiwan, is among the self-ruled island's remaining 14 diplomatic allies that recognise it over China. Beijing considers democratic Taiwan part of its territ...

A Russian court on Tuesday found jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny guilty on embezzlement charges that could see his prison sentence significantly extended.

Nicaragua’s main opposition figure and would-be presidential challenger to Daniel Ortega was sentenced Monday to eight years in prison after being found guilty of financial crimes, a human rights group said.

Carey was unbeaten on 60 and Green 56 as the pair frustrated Pakistan during an unbroken 114-run partnership for the sixth wicket. At the start of play Pakistan would have felt they could make early inroads with the second ball only five overs old....

The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) is meeting in Islamabad with an ambitious agenda that seeks approval for over 100 declarations, including aid for financially strapped Afghanistan and support for the Palestinians and Kashmir. The meeti...

Overnight, the government issued its first-ever electricity crunch warning for the capital and other regions, with supply dented because several thermal power plants remain offline after the quake. The industry ministry called on people to conserve...

Police in northwest Nigeria said gunmen from gangs of cattle thieves on Sunday killed 16 people in an attack on a remote village, in the latest raid by the militants in the region.

The South Asian island nation is grappling with its worst economic meltdown since independence in 1948, with rolling electricity blackouts and essential goods such as food and cooking gas also in short supply. Authorities said soldiers were deploye...

The first thing staff did was to ease off on the entertainment programming and ramp up coverage of the war for their tens of thousands of listeners. "We are an entertainment and music radio station but we're doing a lot of news because citizens nee...

Overnight to Tuesday, Ukraine’s President Volodomyr Zelensky announced he was ready to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin for direct peace talks “in any format”, saying the status of the disputed territories of Crimea and two self-declar...

The match brought together the only two undefeated teams at this year's tournament, with Australia already through to the semi-finals. South Africa had more to play for as a win would have sealed a spot in the top four, and they set a solid target ...