The once vibrant Asian business hub is mired in its third year of pandemic isolation as it hews to China's zero-Covid strategy, which seeks to control outbreaks with lockdowns, social distancing and border controls. Hong Kong last month reopened to...

Arnold, 31, was replaced by 30-year-old Skelton in all three of the Wallabies' November internationals last year after first being involved together in the Green and Gold in 2016. "I've known Will for a number of years now. Off the field he's a rea...

Asked about the incident, reported to have taken place in the early hours of Friday morning, Hong Kong police confirmed to AFP that three men were hospitalised and another three men were arrested. Friday daytime, a section of the road near the pop...

"When we open a new trench, we never know what to expect," said Lee Clare of the German Archaeology Institute, who has been excavating there since 2013. "It is always a big surprise." Gobekli Tepe, which means "Potbelly Hill" in Turkish, is argua...

"I advertised online... and asked everywhere" looking for staff, says Gonzalez, who runs the "Taberna Andaluza" in Benidorm, a hub for mass tourism on Spain's southeastern coast. "But until now, I haven't managed." At full capacity, his restaura...

It's made him one of the most recognisable faces among Britain's climate change activists. In the last two years, he's been part of a number of groups using increasingly radical, hard-hitting stunts to raise awareness of the issue. After Extinctio...

Dino Scala, known as the "Rapist of the Sambre" -- after the river near several towns along the France-Belgium border where he operated -- was arrested in 2018 in northern France. He confessed to around 40 rapes and assaults he attributed to uncon...

Up and down Italy's 7,500-kilometre (4,660-mile) coastline, rows of parasols and matching sunbeds fill the sand, with only a few so-called "free beaches" dotted between them. They provide comfort and shade from the blazing heat, but are also money-...

Accurate news stories about mass shootings have attracted eyeballs but algorithms have also spurred baseless conspiracy theories from trolls who want to push lies to attract traffic. And thousands have unwittingly shared them on Facebook, Twitter an...

Since the start of the year, sterling has fallen by more than seven percent against the dollar, which is benefiting from rises in US interest rates. The pound has also fallen by 1.7 percent against the euro since the beginning of 2022. This comes ...

A skull is freed from a layer of clay, a tibia is placed in a body bag -- all bound for a laboratory to be genetically checked against blood samples from relatives of the disappeared. The site near the central shrine city of Najaf is one of many in...

Pristine material from the asteroid Ryugu was brought back to Earth in 2020 after a six-year mission to the celestial body around 300 million kilometres away. But scientists are only just beginning to discover its secrets in the first studies on sm...

"A year ago, I wasn't sure that it could be done," the religious-nationalist leader told AFP, 12 months after he ended the long reign of right-wing premier Benjamin Netanyahu. Under the deal he struck with the coalition's architect, Foreign Ministe...

Former strawweight champions Zhang and Joanna Jedrzejczyk of Poland are set to battle at UFC 275 in Singapore in a rematch of their March 2020 clash which UFC president Dana White calls "the greatest fight ever". Much has changed since the pair fou...

The final sum for the timepiece, sold to an anonymous buyer, was less than the $200,000 and $400,000 expected by Christie's. The watch was worn by Gerald Imeson on the night of March 24, 1944, when a group of Allied soldiers undertook the daring es...