FIA had been due to reveal Wednesday if any team had breached last season's $145 million budget cap, but released a statement instead saying the report would be delayed until Monday, October 10. Rival teams claimed at last weekend's Singapore Grand...

The unknown work "Smoke over the Rooftops", believed to date from 1911-12, was on the flip-side of "Bastille Day", made a year later, according to conservation specialists Studio Redivivus. Partially damaged and covered with a hard glue-like layer ...

The Saudi-backed LIV Series stages its first event in Asia this week and on Wednesday announced a deal to have tournaments co-sanctioned by the MENA (Middle East and North Africa) Tour and awarded Official World Golf Ranking (OWGR) points. The OWGR...

The 24-year-old American, who has been in the spotlight since beating Rafael Nadal on the way to a first Grand Slam semi-final at the US Open last month, beat Spaniard Bernabe Zapata Miralles 6-1, 7-6 (9/7) in the second round in Tokyo. The America...

Leung, who was awarded the "Asian Cineaste of the Year" prize on Thursday at South Korea's Busan International Festival, is best known for his work with famed director Wong Kar-wai. Half a dozen of his films, including Wong's "In the Mood for Love...

Red Bull's runaway championship leader can secure the title at Suzuka if he gains eight points on nearest rival Charles Leclerc of Ferrari and six on team-mate Sergio Perez. That would happen if Verstappen wins the race and claims the fastest lap, ...

By early afternoon, Sydney had registered its highest annual rainfall total on record -- 2,216 millimetres -- with some 86 days still left until the end of the year. Sydney's previous wettest year was 1950, when there were 2,194 millimetres of rai...

"A deal would mark one step forward but it does not mean that Lebanon has become a gas- or oil-producing country," said Marc Ayoub, an associate fellow at the American University of Beirut's Issam Fares Institute. "We are talking of a timeline of f...

Over the course of five decades, hundreds, possibly thousands, of babies were taken from their mothers, who were told their child hadn't survived -- with the infants given to others to adopt. "It was here," says Robles, fighting back tears as she ...

But with inflation hovering around 10 percent, its affordability is under threat as restaurants seek ways to economise. For a starter, main course and dessert or coffee (or both), bread and a drink, the average price is around 12.8 euros ($12.60), ...

The 37-year-old quit as Test skipper last November on the eve of the Ashes campaign against England when lewd text messages he sent to a female colleague in 2017 were about to be made public. A week later he took leave from all forms of cricket for...

Cairo voiced disappointment that King Charles III, a long-time champion of the environment, cancelled a plan to attend and speak at COP27 after Britain's Prime Minister Liss Truss reportedly objected. "We hope this does not signal Britain stepping ...

His excitement building, the 33-year-old Saudi recalls thinking: "I will go to Doha no matter what, even if I have to walk!" It was an unlikely beginning to what has become an audacious adventure dismissed by some of Alsulmi's own relatives as "cr...

Their target is the long-exiled Iranian Kurdish opposition, installed in Iraq under Saddam Hussein during his war with Iran in the 1980s. Tehran regards these armed factions as "terrorists" and accuses them of attacking its territory. A general in...

The military has clamped down on press freedoms since its coup last year, arresting reporters and photographers as well as revoking broadcasting licences as the country plunged into chaos. Toru Kubota was sentenced by the court in Yangon's Insein p...