Now, fears are growing that the ruthless jihadists wreaking havoc in the Sahel are heading towards coastal West Africa. Following multiple incursions including deadly attacks in the northern regions of Benin, Ivory Coast and Togo, governments in th...

J-League leaders Yokohama take on the Spanish legend's Kobe as Asia's top club competition resumes with the East region playing its entire knockout round in the Japanese city of Saitama. Kobe are aiming to win the continental title for the first ti...

Revelations about Scott Morrison's covert actions -- labelled by his successor as the creation of a "shadow government" -- have sparked a political firestorm in Australia this week. During a lengthy and at-times fiery press conference Wednesday, Mo...

Since taking office in May, Yoon has seen his approval ratings plunge to a low of 24 percent, and he said at a press briefing to mark 100 days in office that he would reflect on what had gone wrong. But it is "more important to humbly examine the p...

Extreme weather has become more frequent owing to climate change, scientists say, and this will likely grow more intense as temperatures rise, impacting economies and societies around the world. Multiple major cities in China have recorded their ho...

A relieved-looking Foster thanked the board of New Zealand Rugby and CEO Mark Robinson for their "strong support". "It's a privilege to be in this job, it's never something you take for granted," Foster said. The 57-year-old stays in charge for th...

There are thousands of photographs, including of rugs, carcasses and taxidermy specimens. Banks, the crime campaign leader for the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA), a London-based charity, tries to identify individual big cats from their s...

A looming shortage of Russian gas in the wake of the Ukraine war has reignited enthusiasm for this method of heating private homes despite its sooty residue and heavy carbon footprint. Engelke, 46, head of the century-old Berlin business Hans Engel...

But while officials at the Federal Reserve and its peers are expected to keep tightening monetary policy for the rest of the year, talk is building that they will be able to ease up in 2023 -- and maybe even cut rates -- if the pace of price rises c...

The body of Juan Arjon Lopez, an independent journalist who ran a news page on Facebook, was discovered in San Luis Rio Colorado in the northwestern state of Sonora near the US border. The 62-year-old was identified from his fingerprints, a source ...

Once considered Republican royalty, the lawmaker from Wyoming has become a pariah in the party over her membership of the congressional panel investigating the January 6 assault on the US Capitol -- and Trump's role in fanning the flames. Defeat fo...

The 51-year-old Tesla and SpaceX CEO, who has a habit of posting provocative statements on social media for fun, said: "Also, I’m buying Manchester United ur welcome," in a reply to an earlier tweet about supporting both of America's two major pol...

Woods and fellow professional Rickie Fowler jetted into Philadelphia from Florida before meeting players on the sidelines of the BMW Championship in Delaware. Multiple US reports said Woods and around 20 of the top players on the PGA Tour were set ...

"The Territory," to be released by National Geographic on Friday, follows the plight of some 200 hunter-gatherers who live in a protected area of rainforest, surrounded and encroached upon by aggressive and illegal settlers, farmers and loggers. Wh...