The visit by Ramaphosa comes a month after US Secretary of State Antony Blinken made his own trip to South Africa, where he vowed that the United States will do more to listen to Africans. Successive US administrations have focused much of their en...

Rosneft's German subsidiaries, which account for about 12 percent of oil refining capacity in the country, were placed under trusteeship of the Federal Network Agency, the economy ministry said in a statement. "The trust management will counter the...

After living with friends for months, the 34-year-old was finally able to move in May, along with her partner and three young children, into a prefabricated wooden house provided by the government. Yet for her and many others on the tiny isle, part...

South Korean honour guards handed over wooden caskets with the remains during a ceremony at Incheon airport near Seoul, where they were loaded onto a Chinese air force cargo plane, a live video of the event showed. The remains were received hours l...

1952: King George VI On February 6, 1952, King George VI died suddenly after a long illness at the age of 56. At his funeral on February 15, his coffin was carried to Paddington station in west London on a gun carriage from Westminster Hall at the P...

The 41-year-old has struggled in recent years with knee injuries and will end his historic career after next week's Laver Cup in London. Prominent French sports newspaper L'Equipe, in a nod to the death last week of Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, we...

Westminster Abbey has space for around 2,000 people, so only heads of state and one or two guests have reportedly been invited to Britain's first state funeral for six decades. A handful of countries have meanwhile not been invited to the funeral d...

A 30 percent hike in fuel prices spurred hundreds of drivers of the most popular ride-hailing apps to hold protests across Indonesia as they struggle to make ends meet. "I sometimes don't eat a proper meal the whole day to allocate my cash for fuel...

Savvy businesses have started offering crash courses in subjects like home repair and hairdressing, capitalising on a wave of people departing Hong Kong as China cracks down on dissent and strict pandemic rules upend the economy. For Pun, a 35-year...

The Frenchman has missed much of the year after sustaining serious injuries in a smash during the Liege-Bastogne-Liege in April and then got Covid on his return. The 30-year-old Quick-Step rider was not fit for the Tour de France in July but return...

With little investment the UAE, and in particular Dubai, stands to gain if, as expected, supporters opt to stay in the tourism hotspot instead of tiny Gulf neighbour Qatar during the November-December tournament. High accommodation prices in the Qa...

With Britain swept up in a wave of pro-monarchy sentiment since Queen Elizabeth II died on September 8, the 73-year-old Charles has won almost universal praise in the media. But his first week in power has not been entirely blemish-free. Rising to ...

Major markets in Tokyo, Shanghai, Hong Kong and Sydney opened lower, in line with overall market sentiment ahead of a decision from the United States Federal Reserve next week. Asian stocks look set to extend their weekly declines into a fifth stra...

Lower, who barely kept his playing rights for the 2022-23 campaign, matched his PGA career-best round to jump atop the leaderboard at Silverado in Napa, California. "Any time you can open up with a 63 is pretty awesome," Lower said. "But a lot of g...

The Pumas began this week bottom of the table but only a point off the leaders New Zealand, who thrashed them 53-3 in their previous outing. Ahead of that match, though, Argentina had been top of the standings with all four sides winning two and lo...