The group from Indonesia landed in the city of Medina and was set to travel south to the holy city of Mecca in the coming weeks to prepare for the hajj next month, state media reported. "Today we received the first group of this year's pilgrims fr...

Hong Kong authorities on Saturday strove to stop any public commemoration of the 33rd anniversary of the Tiananmen crackdown, with police warning that gatherings could break the law as Beijing vies to remove all reminders of the events of June 4.

A protester was shot dead in the Sudanese capital Friday, medics said, as UN human rights expert Adama Dieng urged authorities to "refrain from use of excessive force" against demonstrators.

An organisation in the port city of Rotterdam has built a skywalk linking the roofs of the downtown shopping area to show what the future might look like. From a village to food cultivation and rainwater storage areas, the "Rooftop Days" associatio...

The 34-year-old's talent on the pitch is indisputable. He has a swathe of league titles with both Lyon and Real Madrid as well as five Champions League trophies and is a serious contender for the next Ballon d'Or. Even seven-time laureate Lionel Me...

Recent fighting in the Donbas eastern region has seen several Russian successes, however Severodonetsk's local governor said there was some progress in pushing back invading forces even after artillery barrages. Meanwhile, the United Nations pushed ...

The Sagaing region has seen fierce fighting and bloody reprisals since the coup last year, with local "People's Defence Force" (PDF) members clashing regularly with junta troops. Analysts say the informal militia has surprised junta forces with its...

K'Andre Miller, Kaapo Kakko and Mika Zibanejad scored for the Rangers and goalie Igor Shesterkin stopped 29 shots as the Rangers notched their eighth straight home victory. They ended the Lightning's streak of 17 straight post-season victories foll...

The "Platinum Party at the Palace" is the highlight of the third day of public events to mark the 96-year-old monarch's record-breaking 70 years on the throne. Motown legend Diana Ross is a star attraction at the event, to be held on a purpose-buil...

Famed ocean adventurer Kenichi Horie's arrival in the Kii Strait off western Japan capped a two-month trip that started from a yacht harbour in San Francisco in March. It was only the latest seagoing achievement by the Japanese octogenarian, who i...

They were just the latest deaths in the centre of the country, which has since 2012 been wracked by a deadly jihadist insurgency. In a separate incident, six civilians were killed when a cart hit another explosive device a day earlier, a military o...

Unbeaten American Haney, the long-time WBC title holder who holds a 27-0 record, hit the scales at 134.92 pounds (61.19 kg) for Sunday's blockbuster bout in Melbourne. But when Australian Kambosos, who holds the WBA, IBF and WBO belts, stepped up h...

Benzema was sentenced in November 2021 and fined 75,000 euros ($82,000) over the 2015 extortion attempt that shocked French football and saw him exiled from the French national team for five-and-a-half years. The Real Madrid star has finally droppe...

Discussion of the crackdown is highly sensitive to China's communist leadership. It has gone to exhaustive lengths to erase Tiananmen from collective memory, omitting it from history textbooks and censoring online discussion. On June 4, 1989, the ...

The link has been written about for decades by criminologists, with more recent research drilling down on the precise relationship between temperature and crime rates. For those who have studied the question, there are common sense as well as poten...