Located right next to the front line, this mining town in eastern Ukraine's Donetsk region -- where several thousand people still live -- has been under constant shelling for more than three months. The terrifying sounds of explosions break the sil...

The army said it had destroyed the homes in Qarawat Bani Hasan, in the northern West Bank, belonging to Yusef Aasi and Yehya Miri, accused of perpetrating "a deadly shooting attack at the entrance to the city of Ariel, murdering the Israeli security...

The hosts had reached 22 at lunch in Galle for their second innings with openers wicketkeeper-batsman Niroshan Dickwella, on 11, and Oshada Fernando, on eight, at the crease. The left-handed Dickwella opened Sri Lanka's batting with skipper Dimuth ...

Tu'ungafasi, 30, picked up the knock during the third Test loss to Ireland in Wellington, which saw the All Blacks suffer a first home series defeat since 1994. He will sit out New Zealand's Test matches in South Africa on August 7 in Mbombela and ...

Bapir Kalkani, who is also a trade unionist, farms near the picturesque lake but has seen marked changes over the past three years as Iraq suffers prolonged drought. "There was water where I'm standing now" in 2019, the 56-year-old said. "It used t...

The borderline runs along a drainage divide -- the point at which meltwater will run down either side of the mountain towards one country or the other. But the Theodul Glacier's retreat means the watershed has crept towards the Rifugio Guide del Ce...

Haruyuki Takahashi, 78, is suspected of receiving hundreds of thousands of dollars from high street business suit retailer Aoki Holdings Inc., an "official partner" of last year's pandemic-delayed mega-event. Kyodo news agency reported that could c...

The move also comes as Chinese tech companies traded in New York grow increasingly worried about a regulatory drive by US authorities amid simmering tensions between the superpowers. While Alibaba has a secondary listing in Hong Kong, that does not...

"We didn't get what we wanted out of that series, so to come together and put in the work again is the best thing for this group," Foster told reporters after the All Blacks trained in Wellington. There has been a huge outcry in New Zealand, with s...

A shock cut in US retail titan Walmart's profit outlook poured fuel on concerns that surging inflation and rising borrowing costs are hammering consumer spending and could send the economy into recession. The news left markets concerned about what'...

An unprecedented economic crisis has dealt a body blow to a free and universal healthcare system that just months earlier was the envy of the country's South Asian neighbours. Suffering from diabetes and high blood pressure that inflamed her joints...

An Olympic gold medallist and Champions League winner at club level with Wolfsburg, the Euro had been the bete noire of the 31-year-old's glittering career until touching down in England a few weeks ago. Her determination to play in Wolfsburg's Cha...

Justice Minister Yoshihisa Furukawa said Tomohiro Kato had undertaken "meticulous preparation" for the attack and displayed a "strong intent to kill". "The death sentence in this case was finalised through sufficient deliberation in court," he told...

The 2.4-kilometre (1.5-mile) span reaches out from the Croatian mainland to the Peljesac peninsula that connects with the southern part of Croatia's coastline nestled between the sea and the Dinaric Alps. "The importance of the bridge is enormous, ...

Macron was welcomed at the airport in Yaounde at around 10:40 pm by Cameroonian Prime Minister Joseph Dion Ngute. The first trip of his new term outside Europe, which will also take him to Benin and Guinea-Bissau, should allow Macron to "show the c...