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...

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...

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. ...

"It's real out here. You can get hurt, you can get killed," the 55-year-old told AFP, after eating a free lunch at the Bowery Mission, which helps poor and hungry New Yorkers, in Lower Manhattan. The dangers facing America's homeless were highlight...

But the invasion of Ukraine has intensified calls for party finances to be cleaned up. Anti-corruption activist Bill Browder, formerly a major investor in Russia, said it is not just the ruling Conservative party that is affected. "Over the last 2...

'Dream' Wimbledon triumph The Australian wins Wimbledon on the 50th anniversary of fellow indigenous Australian Evonne Goolagong Cawley's triumph there. Barty's victory in 2021 fulfils a dream that leaves her wondering how long she wants to carry on....

Instead of being behind a camera, the winner of the EU's Sakharov rights prize has signed up as a territorial defence volunteer to fight back Moscow's invasion. "This fighting is not how you imagine it from the movies," says Sentsov, wearing khaki ...

The devoutly Christian full-back -- part of the Wallabies team that lost the 2015 World Cup final to New Zealand at Twickenham -- was sacked by Rugby Australia in 2019 for saying that "hell awaits" gay people and others he considers sinners in a pos...