The girls, thrown into a burning house as their village was razed to the ground, were among thousands of victims of a brutal crackdown against Myanmar's long-marginalised Muslim minority. Myanmar's junta denies the allegations and the case is curre...

China is experiencing its worst Covid-19 outbreak since the start of the pandemic more than two years ago, with Shanghai posting record-high case counts as the highly transmissible Omicron variant frustrates authorities. China's biggest city on Wed...

In-form opener Shafique was not out 75 and senior batsman Azhar 63 as Pakistan added 69 without loss after resuming on the third day at 90-1 in reply to Australia's first innings 391. The home team still trail by 232 runs with nine wickets in hand....

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has won standing ovations in parliaments across the West with a series of impassioned addresses from wartime Kyiv tailored to each audience. We look back at the standout moments in his virtual world tour, ahea...

The Prince of Wales, 73, and Duchess of Cornwall, 74, are scheduled to visit Tipperary and Waterford in southern Ireland. Charles, who is the 95-year-old monarch's eldest son and heir, is also due to meet Irish prime minister Micheal Martin, as wel...

Entrepreneur Dmytro Tymoshenko has turned his paint company into a force for Kyiv’s self-preservation. His facilities are now producing their own bulletproof vests as well as serving as a hub for distribution of medicine and other humanitarian aid...

In his latest video address, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky said that nearly 100,000 remained trapped in besieged port city of Mariupol in “inhumane conditions” without food, water or medication as Russia’s bombardment continued. Pre...

Ukraine has long struggled with tuberculosis, which was the world's biggest infectious killer before the emergence of Covid-19 and spreads in a similar manner. Despite being diagnosable and normally easily treatable, the disease kills 1.5 million p...

The 10-year-old canine is lucky. Unable to part ways with the dog, Balla officially adopted him following his retirement from the police force, vowing to take care of it "until the last days of his life". "The relationship with the animal is spe...

In fact, this whole area is part of scientific work to help farmers cut down on their use of pesticides, herbicides and chemical fertilisers. "I felt that these products were dangerous," said farmer David Bonneau as he hunched over the little w...

Three days on from Monday's crash and there are no signs of survivors, yet officials have refrained from declaring all of the passengers dead, in what is almost certain to be China's deadliest plane crash in nearly 30 years. Hundreds of firefighter...

The Russian invasion of Ukraine has sparked a surge of volunteer hackers, or hacktivists, battling on the digital frontline with Moscow. Groups such as Anonymous, Squad303 and Cyber Partisan have carried out several cyberattacks against Russian targ...

Software engineer Ribeiro used to work remotely and had no intention of emigrating, but a harrowing incident changed his mind. "It was one night that my wife and I witnessed four robberies. We didn't want to see that violence so close to our childr...

Barty is not the only tennis star to quit the game at the height of their powers. Here, AFP Sport, highlights five other greats who made early exits. Bjorn Borg The suave Swede was a dominant force in the men's game for much of the late 1970s and ...

The Socceroos face a must-win clash in Sydney on Thursday but the odds are stacked against them after a disastrous build-up. Coach Graham Arnold tested positive for Covid-19 and was then slapped with a heavy fine for breaching his self-isolation. ...