The Federal Court's decision to proceed with the hearing starting Thursday came after it rejected the former prime minister's plea for a retrial. "There is, to our minds, no miscarriage of justice," Chief Justice Tengku Maimun Tuan Mat said in cour...

Beijing has carried out huge air and sea drills this month around Taiwan in a furious reaction to visits by US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and a congressional delegation. Those exercises included firing multiple ballistic missiles into waters off Ta...

The passengers were a couple of hours into a long journey when their vehicle crashed on the outskirts of the central city of Multan. Photos of the scene show the burnt-out wreckage of the bus after it smashed into the back of the tanker. "I can c...

China on Tuesday imposed sanctions including an entry ban on seven Taiwanese officials and lawmakers it accused of being "independence diehards", drawing condemnation from the democratically governed island. 

The highly anticipated TV series, launching September 2 on Amazon's streaming platform, is said to be a personal obsession of Jeff Bezos, multi-billionaire founder of the online shopping giant-turned-streamer. Set in the world of J.R.R. Tolkien's b...

Once considered Republican royalty, the lawmaker from Wyoming has become a pariah in the party over her role on the congressional panel pursuing Trump over the plot to overthrow the last election that culminated in the 2021 assault on the US Capitol...

"Iran has submitted a written response to the draft text of a Vienna agreement and has announced that an agreement will be concluded if the United States reacts with realism and flexibility," the official IRNA news agency reported. The possibility ...

Beijing has carried out huge air and sea drills this month around Taiwan in a furious reaction to visits by US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and a congressional delegation. Those exercises included firing multiple ballistic missiles into waters off Ta...

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday accused the US of seeking to prolong the conflict in Ukraine. In televised remarks, Putin said Washington is also fuelling “the potential for conflict in Asia, Africa and Latin America. Follow FRANCE 24â...

The Yuan Wang 5 entered the deep-sea port after securing permission to enter Sri Lankan waters on the condition it would not engage in any research, port officials said. It was originally due to arrive last week, but Colombo asked Beijing to defer ...

"We drove 1,000 kilometres (620 miles) in five days. The trip was awful, planes were flying over us and we did not even know if they were Ukrainian or not," she recounts. "The hardest part for us was to convince people at checkpoints not to search ...

Kenyans on Tuesday braced for a potentially turbulent time ahead after the disputed outcome of the country's presidential election triggered violent protests in some areas.

Temperatures in the province -- home to nearly 84 million people -- have hovered above 40-42 degrees Celsius (104-108 degrees Fahrenheit) since last week, according to data from China's Meteorological Administration, increasing the demand for air co...

An area of intensely warm weather -- a so-called "extreme heat belt" -- with at least one day per year in which the heat index hits 125 Fahrenheit (52C), is expected to cover a US region home to more than 100 million people by the year 2053, acc...

Green hydrogen is in sharp focus as governments seek to slash carbon emissions amid record-high temperatures and to safeguard energy supplies hit by the invasion of Ukraine by oil and gas producer Russia. But the "hydrogen economy" has not fully ki...