Beijing views Taiwan as part of its territory to be re-taken one day -- and the narrow body of water that separates the island and mainland China is a flashpoint between the two sides. In contrast to Beijing's position, the United States and other ...

Taiwan lives under the constant threat of invasion by China, which claims the self-ruled democratic island as part of its territory and has vowed to seize it one day, by force if necessary. Beijing's increased sabre-rattling has spurred greater sh...

Wickremesinghe, a six-time former prime minister, was backed by the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) party of ousted leader Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who fled abroad and then resigned last week after protesters overran his palace. The pro-Western Wickr...

Markets also reacted positively to a report saying China will fine ride-hailing giant Didi $1 billion but bring an end to its year-long probe, reinforcing optimism that a long-running tech crackdown is nearing an end. After a hefty drop Monday, all...

Former finance minister Sunak was only two votes short of securing his place in the final two after Tuesday's voting, but the race behind him tightened as Truss clawed back five votes to finish only six behind Mordaunt. The final two will be announ...

Pakistan were 298 for five at lunch on day five, chasing 342 for victory at a venue where the highest successful fourth-innings chase was 268 by Sri Lanka against New Zealand in 2019. Left-arm spinner Prabath Jayasuriya struck at the stroke of lun...

Nearly 500 firefighters, 120 vehicles, three planes and four helicopters swung into action from dawn to battle the flames from approaching areas such as Gerakas, which is home to some 29,000 people. The heatwave -- the second to engulf parts of Eur...

Roizman, who was Yekaterinburg's mayor between 2013 and 2018, is Russia's last prominent opposition figure who is still in the country and not behind bars. Russian society is reeling from a historic crackdown on dissent as Moscow presses ahead wit...

China is the world's biggest emitter of the greenhouse gases driving global warming, and President Xi Jinping last year vowed to phase down coal use from 2026 as part of an ambitious set of national climate commitments. But campaigners fear those t...

One by one, the legislators entered ballot booths set up on the floor of the chamber to choose between three candidates to lead the crisis-wracked country. "Members are reminded that taking photographs of ballot papers or displaying them to others ...

The fast-emerging 18-year-old had been favoured to make the podium in the 50m and 100m backstroke events at the Games in Birmingham starting next week. He finished eighth in the 50m backstroke at the recent world championships in Budapest and was p...

Stanton, who has 24 homers in the first half of the season, belted a 457-foot game-tying two-run home run off Dodgers pitcher Tony Gonsolin in the top of the fourth. It flew into the Dodger Stadium bleachers left of center field -- right about wher...

Warholm may have been behind one of the most iconic moments in Olympic history when he smashed the 29-year-old world record to win the 400m hurdles at the Tokyo Games in a time of 45.94sec. But the 26-year-old came to Eugene on the back of a hamstr...

This year's Farnborough spectacle, returning from a four-year absence, is set against the backdrop of air travel's nascent post-pandemic recovery but as economic turmoil hampers manufacturing. Yet the airshow's focus is on decarbonisation and susta...

His footsteps quicken as he draws nearer and his eyes light up as he peers closely at the branches through his spectacles, caressing the leaves and sniffing the fruits to see if they are ripe. "This is my prize of toiling hard in the scorching sun ...