Johnson travelled to India as he faces criticism at home and the embarrassing prospect of a probe into whether he lied to parliament over the lockdown-breaking "Partygate" scandal. New Delhi is part of the Quad grouping with the United States, Jap...

Narendra Modi's Hindu nationalist government has sought to quell a long-running insurgency in Indian-administered Kashmir and buttress its hold over the Muslim-majority region, which is claimed by neighbouring Pakistan and over which the countries h...

Tight border restrictions helped the kingdom limit infections and deaths in 2020 but brought the tourism sector -- which had accounted for about a fifth of the country's economy -- to its knees. Thailand's Covid-19 taskforce said that from May 1, f...

Baseball is the most popular spectator sport in South Korea and the games are a chance for fans to let loose, fuelled by liberal supplies of alcohol and fried chicken. Since the pandemic however spectators were supposed to watch the games in relat...

These are no ordinary headaches -- they are cluster headaches, which cause such extreme pain, normally behind one eye, that doctors compare it to having a limb amputated without anaesthetic. Also called "suicide headaches" because the pain provokes...

The two nations have long been engaged in attempts to agree a post-World War II treaty, but the islands held by Moscow and claimed by Tokyo remain a key sticking point. Japan's foreign ministry last used the expression in its annual policy report i...

The warrant was issued over 15 million euros ($16.3 million) in suspect payments between the Renault-Nissan alliance that Ghosn once headed and an Omani company, Suhail Bahwan Automobiles (SBA), said prosecutors in the Paris suburb of Nanterre. Gho...

Perched on a strong branch, the 150-kilo (330-pound) beast greedily pulls more leaves from the tree to his mouth with a slow but powerful movement before lumbering down the trunk. Soon he dozes off calmly. After two years of a total shutdown due to...

The Israeli police stormed the compound and fired teargas and rubber-tipped bullets at stone-throwing Palestinian youths, said an AFP photographer on the scene. The clashes come after a month of deadly violence, as the Jewish festival of Passover o...

Opposition to high-profile Russian artists and musicians and even cultural icons like the 19th-century poet Alexander Pushkin began after Moscow's annexation of Crimea in 2014. Although some leading figures in Russia dissented, many applauded the m...

Paris-born activist and philanthropist Osman Kavala was a relative unknown when he was detained on his arrival at Istanbul's airport from a trip to a cultural centre in the Turkish city of Gaziantep in October 2017. But his continued imprisonment w...

To halt a takeover, the board plans to activate the pill if the Tesla CEO comes to own more than 15 percent of Twitter. He already holds 9.2 percent of the company, and said Thursday he has ready the $46.5 billion necessary to make an offer for th...

The country's welcoming climate, sports-loving people, stable political environment and quality infrastructure have long made it an attractive destination. But the sheer volume of big sporting events heading to Australia is unprecedented for the na...

Down 26 points in the second quarter and 25 with 3:10 left in the third, the Grizzlies held their nerve in Minneapolis, out-scoring the Timberwolves 37-12 in the fourth quarter to match the fourth-largest comeback in NBA playoff history. "It's an e...

The Pacific state's traditional allies the United States and Australia are deeply suspicious of the deal, fearing it may give China a military foothold in the South Pacific. A White House delegation landed at the airport in the capital Honiara and ...