Kohli took his Indian Premier League tally this season to just 128 runs from nine matches after scoring a scratchy nine in the defeat to Rajasthan Royals on Tuesday following two golden ducks. Moved up to open the batting, Kohli was inches away fro...

The Russian energy giant Gazprom said it had cut supplies to Poland and Bulgaria, in Moscow's latest use of gas as a weapon in a conflict that has now dragged into its third month and claimed thousands of lives. Explosions this week targeting the s...

Musk, the world's richest man, struck a deal Monday to buy the US-based social media platform for $44 billion. The news was greeted with enthusiasm by fans of Musk, who calls himself a free speech absolutist, and horror by proponents of strong mode...

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said an ammunition depot and several positions linked to Iran's military presence in Syria were among the targets. Government media in Syria confirmed four of the five casualties in the strikes, on which Isra...

The Nobel laureate, 76, has been kept out of the public eye ever since as the junta seeks to crush resistance to its putsch. AFP takes a look at what we know about Suu Kyi's detention. - Where is she? – Her exact location is unknown. The junta...

The Israeli army told AFP it was "conducting counterterrorism activity" in the city of Jenin, but did not comment on any casualties. Israeli security forces have stepped up operations in the occupied West Bank, particularly around Jenin where there...

Russia has been hit with an avalanche of sanctions over the war and many Western multinationals have pulled out of the country. Beijing has refused to condemn the invasion, however, and Chinese companies have largely remained silent about how they ...

In the eight years since her life was changed forever, the 37-year-old has undergone 61 operations, including skin reconstruction and grafts. "Every day I endure it but I don't know if I will heal completely at some point," said Sanchez, who wears ...

Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing (HKEX) announced a net income of HK$2.67 billion ($340 million) for the three months ended March -- 31 percent down on-year -- with quarterly revenue down 21 percent at HK$4.69 billion. The exchange operator has now...

Fans hail "Al-Ikhtiyar 3" (The Choice 3) for enlightening the masses about Egypt's turbulent recent history. Critics see it as propaganda by a regime that rules with an iron fist. While the first two seasons paid tribute to soldiers who battle Isla...

But the clampdown has drawn complaints of rights abuses, and experts say mass arrests are but a stop-gap as long as so many Salvadorans have no feasible exit from a life of penury. With a poverty rate of 30.7 percent and sky-high unemployment that ...

Indonesia's Chico Aura Dwi Wardoyo, ranked 52nd in the world, lost the first game but stormed back to stun the Japanese top seed 17-21, 21-17, 21-7 in just over an hour in Manila. In the women's singles, top seed and Momota's fellow Japanese Akane ...

Since a military coup ousted her government in February last year, plunging Myanmar into upheaval, Suu Kyi has been in military custody. In the latest case, the Nobel laureate was accused of accepting a bribe of $600,000 cash and gold bars. After ...

Despite struggling to defeat the country's worst outbreak in two years, the leadership is digging in its heels with a strict zero-Covid policy that involves lockdowns in the biggest cities and mass testing. But the measures have snarled supply chai...

Every day, hundreds of people from Israel and nearby West Bank settlements visit the town to take advantage of low prices on everything from groceries to car parts. Nilin is no stranger to the realities of occupation -- a number of the town's resid...