Just 21, the Australian is widely seen as one of Formula One's hottest upcoming talents after dominating the junior categories. Which team he makes his F1 bow with is the burning question after a dramatic week in which Alpine announced his promotio...

Last October's inferno in the southern city of Kaohsiung raged through multiple floors of a dilapidated 13-storey apartment block for hours, killing 46 people and injuring 41. Authorities had said the blaze started when the defendant Huang Ke-ke, 5...

A similar call from Sadr in mid-July drew hundreds of thousands of Muslim worshippers to Sadr City, a Baghdad district named after his assassinated father, amid tensions between his political bloc and a rival Shiite faction that is backed by Iran. ...

Ukraine’s military says Russia is increasing its troop presence just across the border from the northern Ukrainian regions of Chernihiv and Sumy. Not, they say, by enough to invade from that direction again in the near future – but enough to pre...

It is the latest example of how Bollywood actors, particularly minority Muslims like Khan, are feeling increased pressure under Hindu nationalist Prime Minister Modi. "Laal Singh Chaddha", an Indian spin on the 1994 Hollywood hit with Tom Hanks, is...

Russia said on Friday that it was ready to discuss prisoner swaps with Washington through an existing diplomatic channel, a day after basketball star Brittney Griner was handed a nine-year prison sentence for a drugs offence. 

Peru was under Spanish rule for nearly 300 years, from 1532 when they invaded and defeated the Inca empire until 1821 when popular uprisings led to independence. "We are working with the hypothesis that the remains belong to a colonial cemetery," ...

The fire broke out around 1:00 am (1800 GMT Thursday) at the Mountain B nightspot in Chonburi province's Sattahip district, about 150 kilometres (90 miles) southeast of Bangkok. Video footage posted by a rescue service showed desperate revellers fl...

Myanmar has been in chaos since a putsch in February last year, and the death toll from the military's brutal crackdown on dissent has passed 2,100, according to a local monitoring group. Anger is growing among some Association of Southeast Asian N...

U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Friday praised Taiwan, pledged U.S. solidarity and said her trip through Asia, which led to unprecedented military drills by an angry China, was never about changing the regional status quo.

He was surprised to find that his own cat was just as fascinated. "My cat, Hobbes, was taken by 'Stray' from the minute I loaded it on the screen. He watches every move the cat makes," Yaksic said. Thousands of cat owners have taken to social med...

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) raised its key lending rate by 50 basis points to 5.40 percent -- a level last seen in August 2019 -- three months after kicking off a monetary tightening cycle in May. "Successive shocks to the global economy are ta...

Until she was a teenager, she had never even heard of opera. Now she is one of Latin America's few black sopranos. Garces is from the city Buenaventura, which ironically translates as "good fortune" but is better known for rampant poverty, crime a...

Canada has requested the extradition of a French priest accused of sexually abusing Indigenous children more than 30 years ago, Canadian Justice Minister David Lametti confirmed Thursday. 

The annual Hall of Fame Game exhibition opener provided both teams the first opportunity to test schemes, analyze personnel and see how they perform against a rival ahead of next month's start to the 2022 NFL campaign. The matchup was played at the...