The kingdom has generally sought to quell speculation over the health of the 86-year-old monarch, who has ruled the top oil exporter and the Arab world's biggest economy since 2015. He entered King Faisal Specialist Hospital in the coastal city of ...

Two and a half years since the coronavirus first emerged in Wuhan, China is the last major economy still closed off to the world, despite its relatively low death toll. Lockdowns across dozens of cities -- from the manufacturing hubs of Shenzhen an...

The Warriors held a comfortable double-digit lead in the fourth quarter when the play occurred, with Poole and teammate Andrew Wiggins pressuring Morant as he dribbled toward the lane and flailed as he tried to retain possession of the ball. "We ju...

In a high-scoring round, when three sides scored more than 50 points, the rampant Blues led the way with a 71-28 thrashing of Melbourne Rebels. The Brumbies won their third straight game against a New Zealand side with a 38-28 victory over the Waik...

John Lee, 64, was the only candidate in the Beijing-backed race to succeed outgoing leader Carrie Lam. The elevation of Lee, subject of US sanctions, places a security official in the top job for the first time after a tumultuous few years for a ci...

"(The) war in Ukraine is fundamentally challenging our European peace architecture," European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen declared on Friday. That can be seen in the EU's evolution. What began seven decades ago as a trade bloc binding fo...

Russia's Bivol, 31 improved to 20-0 with 11 knockouts while multiweight champion Alvarez, a heavy favorite, fell to 57-2 with two draws. His only other defeat was to Floyd Mayweather at light middleweight in 2013. Alvarez made boxing history in Nov...

Coincidences, or a sign that Ukrainians or their supporters are mounting a campaign of sabotage inside Russia to punish Moscow for invading their country? Since the blaze at the Central Research Institute of the Aerospace Defense Forces in Tver on ...

The clan's comeback from pariahs in exile to the peak of political power has been built on a relentless barrage of fake and misleading posts on social media. Pro-Marcos pages have sought to rewrite the family's history, spreading fallacies about e...

Coincidences, or a sign that Ukrainians or their supporters are mounting a campaign of sabotage inside Russia to punish Moscow for invading their country? Since the blaze at the Central Research Institute of the Aerospace Defense Forces in Tver on ...

Housed in a 19th-century building in a redeveloped area behind King's Cross railway station, the museum has been four years in the making and is entirely financed by private donations. A major exhibition is slated for the coming months combining ph...

"In other countries, dictators were lined up against the wall. That never happened to them," said 70-year-old Bonifacio Ilagan. A former political prisoner, Ilagan was captured during a raid on a dissident safehouse in 1974. As chairman of the com...

Exactly a week after that gathering, Arab rioters torched his seafood restaurant Uri Buri and a nearby luxury hotel, the Efendi, which Jeremias also owned. The attacks in the north-coast city were part of unprecedented intercommunal violence that sh...

On May 10, 2021, weeks of clashes between Israeli forces and Palestinians in the Al-Aqsa mosque compound in Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem culminated in all-out conflict. A barrage of rockets was fired from the Gaza Strip, with some projectiles hit...

President Volodymyr Zelensky is also set to hold talks with G7 leaders via video conference to discuss the situation in his country, which fears a renewed intensity to Moscow's offensive after the evacuation of civilians from Mariupol's Azovstal ste...