John Lee, 64, is expected to be anointed the business hub's next chief executive by a committee of Beijing loyalists next month. A hardline former security chief, he is currently the only person to have announced a leadership bid in what Hong Kong ...

Verstappen's Red Bull team-mate Sergio Perez is on the second row after coming in third ahead of McLaren's Lando Norris. Mercedes' Hamilton, who has been the pole-sitter eight times in Melbourne, including the last six in a row at Albert Park, will...

The Israeli army told AFP a military operation was ongoing in the Jenin camp, a stronghold of Palestinian armed factions in the north of the occupied West Bank. The Palestinian health ministry said five others were wounded in Jenin by Israeli gunfi...

Until March, China had kept cases low with snap lockdowns, mass testing and travel restrictions, but more than 100,000 cases have been reported in Shanghai since March in a test of the country's strict zero-Covid policy. The city's roughly 25 milli...

The Mont Terri international laboratory was built to study the effects of burying radioactive waste in clay which sits 300 metres (985 feet) below the surface near Saint-Ursanne in the northwestern Jura region. The underground laboratory stretches ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Friday he expected a ‘firm global response’ to the deadly missile strike that killed more than 50 people at a train station in Kramatorsk earlier that day. Some world leaders condemned the attack, w...

- 52 killed at train station - At least 52 people are killed, including five children, in a rocket attack on a train station in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk that is being used for civilian evacuations, according to Donetsk region gover...

In a session in which Sebastian Vettel slammed into a wall, the Briton Norris posted a blistering one minute 19.117 seconds around Melbourne's Albert Park, 0.132 ahead of Ferrari's Charles Leclerc. It was a huge improvement from McLaren, with team-...

One of the last countries sticking to a zero-Covid strategy, China aims to stamp out every infection with strict lockdowns and by sending all cases to secure facilities. That is placing a strain on China's already under-pressure medical system, as ...

Djokovic, who on Monday starts his 365th week on top of the rankings, has played just one tournament in four months. His now infamous deportation from Melbourne prevented him from an assault on a 10th Australian Open title. Djokovic's only appeara...

Ramaphosa, whose government has been criticised for refusing to condemn Moscow's bloody invasion, had a day earlier blasted the UN Security Council as "outdated" and in dire need of an overhaul. Hours later, South Africa was among the 58 countries ...

"This is another Russian war crime for which everyone involved will be held accountable," Zelensky said in a video message, referring to Friday's missile strike, whose victims included five children. "World powers have already condemned Russia's a...

The trio and their instructor got into trouble Wednesday after they surfaced from a dive near a southern island but could not find their boat. The Briton, 46-year-old Adrian Peter Chesters, and Frenchwoman Alexia Alexandra Molina, 18, were discover...

The hajj ministry "has authorised one million pilgrims, both foreign and domestic, to perform the hajj this year," it said in a statement. One of the five pillars of Islam, the hajj must be undertaken by all Muslims with the means at least once in...

The hajj ministry "has authorised one million pilgrims, both foreign and domestic, to perform the hajj this year," it said in a statement. One of the five pillars of Islam, the hajj must be undertaken by all Muslims with the means at least once in...