Raducanu, who crashed out of the US Open in the first round last month, overcame a sluggish start and a late wobble to win 6-3, 7-5 in Seoul. The 19-year-old Briton, the sixth seed, will face third seed Magda Linette of Poland next. Raducanu reach...

The yen has taken a beating in recent months as the Japanese central bank hews to a decade-old policy intended to achieve sustained two-percent inflation -- a benchmark seen as key to turbocharging the world's third-largest economy. It has bucked t...

With the help of Karen Stockin, a whale stranding expert at New Zealand's Massey University, here are the answers to five key questions: What causes mass strandings? Scientists are still trying to work that out. They do know that there are multipl...

While the three-quarter-point rise was widely expected, there was some surprise at the central bank's forecast that borrowing costs would likely be held above four percent throughout next year. Fed boss Jerome Powell reiterated his determination to...

The epicenter of the 6.9-magnitude quake was near the Pacific coast, 84 kilometers (52 miles) south of Coalcoman in the western state of Michoacan, the national seismological agency reported. The US Geological Survey (USGS) estimated the magnitude ...

Despite a stuttering campaign that has seen defeats to South Africa and Argentina, New Zealand are level on points with the Springboks at the top of the table and it could all come down to points difference if both win on Saturday. New Zealand last...

Drones and missiles that have been hallmarks of the Iran-backed rebels' military campaign filed past a grandstand on flatbed trucks on Wednesday, three weeks after a similar display in rebel-held Hodeida. The Huthis took Sanaa in September 2014, pr...

"Abolish the Monarchy" demonstrators gathered in cities including Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra, protesting the persecution of Indigenous people since the British landed in Australia more than two centuries ago. In Sydney, scores of people came to...

The island has largely kept its borders closed and implemented strict quarantine rules throughout the coronavirus pandemic, keeping infection numbers low at the expense of being internationally cut off. The government started to move away from its ...

The epicenter of the 6.9-magnitude quake was near the Pacific coast, 84 kilometers (52 miles) south of Coalcoman in the western state of Michoacan, the national seismological agency reported. The US Geological Survey (USGS) estimated the magnitude ...

And with far-right leader Giorgia Meloni promising to abolish a poverty relief scheme if she wins Sunday's general elections, he fears things will only get worse. "There will be a flood of people here," he warned as he handed out food at the San Fr...

By mid-afternoon each day, shops lower their shutters, and the streets run empty as inhabitants scurry to safety before nightfall. Those who can lock themselves behind iron gates. Others take what refuge they can in shacks on stilts or zinc huts pe...

Giorgia Meloni's eurosceptic, ultra-conservative Brothers of Italy was leading the last polls published two weeks before election day Sunday. She and her allies, Matteo Salvini's anti-immigration League and ex-premier Silvio Berlusconi's Forza Ital...

After two previous attempts in 2004 and 2017, Bern is hoping it can finally garner enough votes for its bid to "stabilise" Switzerland's old age security system, at risk of being submerged by the giant baby boomer generation reaching retirement age ...

Hundreds of billions of euros -- and counting -- have been shelled out so far since Russia invaded its pro-Western neighbour in late February. Governments have gone all out: from capping gas and electricity prices to rescuing struggling energy comp...