The Asian finance hub has been cut off from the world for more than two years, as it hews to its own version of China's strict zero-Covid rules. International flights remain well below pre-pandemic levels and all arrivals must currently undergo a ...

Two of Foster's assistants were fired last week, following NZ Rubgy's review into a 2-1 defeat to Ireland, the All Blacks' first series loss on home soil for 28 years. Foster, however, managed to cling to his job. On Saturday, NZ Rugby chief execu...

"There were no new fever patients reported" over a 24-hour period from Thursday evening, the state-run Korean Central News Agency said, marking the first time the isolated country had reported no new cases since it began tallying numbers in May. Wh...

Visibility underwater can exceed 100 metres (330 feet) and the spectacle of light and darkness is hypnotic. "When we entered the water, it was...," says Icelandic tourist Brynjolfur Bragason before pausing. "Incredible," adds his wife Hildur Orrad...

The business, handed down from father to son, "is slowly disappearing", Saif told AFP. "The bees are being hit by strange phenomenons. Is it due to climate change or the effects of war? We really don't know." Yemen, one of the world's most impoveri...

Musk's counter-suit was submitted along with a legal defense against Twitter's claim that the billionaire is contractually bound to complete the deal he inked in April to buy Twitter, the Chancery Court in the state of Delaware said in a notice. Th...

The federal judge in the state of Virginia, where Haftar lived before returning to Libya, ruled that he had not cooperated with the court and that by "default" was ordered to pay damages to the families. Haftar, a dual US-Libyan citizen whose name ...

The South American country has suffered years of economic crisis, with some 37 percent of its population now living in poverty. Inflation for the first half of this year alone topped 36 percent, and is predicted to reach 80 percent by the year's en...

The troops had been biding their time outside Mala Rogan, 32 kilometres (20 miles) from Ukraine's northeast border with Russia, but decided to take the village two weeks into the war. "You have to leave because we need the whole street," Kios remem...

While there is still widespread public confusion about the precise nature and spread of the disease, it is a fact that the overwhelming majority of monkeypox patients in the United States identify as LGBTQ and are male. For some, the situation evok...

Spain is one of the world's worst-hit countries, with 4,298 people there infected with the virus, according to the health ministry's emergency and alert coordination centre. "Of the 3,750 (monkeypox) patients with available information, 120 cases w...

Mohammed Khalifa, who was born in Saudi Arabia, pleaded guilty in December to conspiring to provide material support to IS resulting in death. According to the Department of Justice (DOJ) indictment, he left Canada in 2013 to join the IS group in S...

A common lament by drivers at the app-summoned ride platform has been that they have to accept a request before learning where trips will take them, or how profitable they will be. "Our new trip request screen makes it easier for drivers to decide ...

Police had been alerted to the case in a poor neighborhood in the west of Rio de Janeiro by an anonymous tip-off. "The two youngsters, who are the children of the woman and the suspect, were tied up, soiled and starved," Rio's military police, who ...

Olympic champions Ariarne Titmus and Zac Stubblety-Cook showed their class in tight races while world champion Elijah Winnington powered home in style. Australia finished their evening on cloud nine by winning the mixed 4x100m freestyle relay, with...