Wyatt's outstanding 129, aided by five dropped catches and supported by Sophia Dunkley's 60, saw England post an imposing 293 for eight off their 50 overs at Hagley Oval in Christchurch. Sophie Ecclestone then produced the best bowling figures of t...

Energy resource-poor Japan is attempting to balance its need for fossil fuels with toeing a hard line on Russia, and has faced questions over its continued involvement in the Sakhalin-2 project. After Russia launched its war in Ukraine last month, ...

In December 2020, Luis Robles took to a central street in Havana with a handwritten sign reading: "Freedom, no more repression / free Denis" -- referring to the jailing of Cuban rapper and activist Denis Solis over a music video about repression on ...

Wrangling between rival Muslim Shiite blocs in the assembly on Wednesday scuppered the legislature's third attempt to elect a head of state. Though a largely ceremonial role, the president determines the country's next prime minister who will in tu...

He has not yet planned his next steps, but, for the moment, 24-year-old Safarov's feelings are those of relief as the Tajik national reflects on his hasty exit from Russia, just two days after the war with Ukraine began on February 24. "I was speak...

Hundreds of Western companies have halted their operations in Russia following Moscow's invasion of Ukraine, with a slew of retailers, including H&M rival Zara, shutting down stores. H&M has closed 185 stores and stopped online sales in Russia. H&...

Now 38, he is back on the field after helping to form Surabaya amputee football club, or PERSAS. The team in Indonesia's second-largest city Surabaya started in February and currently has eight players, including Arifin, and big ambitions. "Foot...

The South Asian nation is in the grips of its worst economic downturn since independence, sparked by an acute lack of foreign currency to pay for even the most essential imports. Diesel -- the main fuel for buses and commercial vehicles -- was unav...

India has abstained from UN resolutions censuring Russia, calling only for a cessation of violence, and continues to buy Russian oil and other goods. In her talks in New Delhi, Liz Truss will say that "Russia's invasion of Ukraine underlines the im...

"Officials of Solomon Islands and the People's Republic of China have initialled elements of a bilateral Security Cooperation Framework between the two countries today," said a statement from the prime minister's office in Honiara. It is now awaiti...

A century after her ancestors arrived, Marcela Enns, 30, shares anecdotes and answers questions from her more than 350,000 followers with a mixture of pride, humor and sarcasm. Known on social media as Menonita Mexicana, Enns tries to dispel miscon...

Originally from Lebanon, Adnan Farid has seen his business in the western Czech spa city of Karlovy Vary dwindle from wonderful prosperity in the 1990s to much slower days now. Following the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, wealthy Russians wh...

Staff and pupils at the school, run by a "progressive traditional" Jewish movement known as Masorti, warmly greeted the children who fled their homes in Kyiv, Odessa and Kharkiv following the Russian invasion. Seventy-seven years after the end of t...

Under the trees by a cluster of small buildings near the southern tip of the Mediterranean island, concrete foundations have been laid for four new huts. "In each room, six boys. So 24 boys to start with," said Mintoff, as he showed AFP around the ...

The 85-year-old pontiff is the third pope since 1990 to visit the tiny Mediterranean archipelago, where Saint Paul was said to have shipwrecked in 60 AD -- and which wears its religion proudly. Catholicism is part of the constitution, and 85 percen...