The currency has plunged from February levels of around 115 as the Bank of Japan sticks to its longstanding ultra-loose policies, designed to encourage sustainable growth in the world's third-largest economy. At the same time the US Federal Reserve...

The world's eighth-ranked team plundered 162-6, blasting 102 of them off the final 10 overs to set up a big target which the Dutch were unable to reach, finishing on 146-9. In which Super 12 group they play will be determined after the later gam...

"Ekho Moskvy" radio, considered one of the last independent voices in Russia, in early March joined the ranks of media outlets forced to halt operations in the face of an unprecedented crackdown by the Kremlin over coverage of the war. A number of ...

"I have not joined the army but we can fight with our art," Gryshchenko told AFP on the opening day of the fair, at a display of pictures by Ukrainian illustrators' group Pictoric. "A lot of Ukrainian artists have joined the military and I am prou...

"Instead of picking up a gun, music was the only tool he had. It was a weapon to use against authority, against colonisation and corrupt African governments," said Femi Kuti, 60, himself a hugely successful musician. The Paris Philharmonic is payi...

Admiral Michael Gilday, chief of US naval operations, is the latest senior official in Washington to raise concerns that China's President Xi Jinping may be much more willing than previously thought to seize Taiwan. His comments came as Taiwan's t...

Convoys of tractors, 4x4s and farmyard vehicles disrupted traffic in Wellington, Auckland and other major hubs, as protestors demanded the centre-left government ditch plans for an animal "burp and fart" tax. Earlier this month, Prime Minister Jaci...

With sore feet, injuries and dented spirits several days into their ordeal -- still far from halfway -- they trudge in single file through the infamous Darien Jungle linking Colombia to Panama. With a long way still ahead through Central America an...

Much has changed in the time since he and 750,000 other members of the stateless Muslim minority escaped neighbouring Myanmar, the survivors of a horrific crackdown now subject to a UN genocide probe. Back then, thousands of Bangladeshis, outraged ...

A determined climate campaigner for nearly a decade, both at home and on the world stage, she speaks passionately of the growing threat a heating planet poses to her northeast African nation. "Climate change needs to be prioritised in Sudan," 27-ye...

Germany, Sweden, France and Spain will also be sides to watch out for when the draw is held in New Zealand's largest city from 7:30pm (0630 GMT). The World Cup will be staged at 10 stadiums in New Zealand and Australia from July 20 to August 20, 20...

The positive start of the week, helped by forecast-beating earnings and a major UK government policy U-turn, gave way to the downbeat mood that has characterised markets all year as traders contemplated an extended period of uncertainty. News that ...

The protest movement is showing it can go the distance more than one month after it sprung up, in spite of a crackdown by the security forces that has cost at least 122 lives. The protests erupted in response to the death of Amini, 22, after her ar...

Parts of Australia are facing a third straight La Nina weather event with a wetter-than-average summer expected, and downpours are forecast for Sydney and Melbourne from Friday through to next week. Aaron Finch's Australia begin their title defence...

Here is a look at how the standoff between the United States and the Soviet Union unfolded: Missiles deployed On May 21, 1962, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev decides to place medium- and intermediate-range nuclear missiles on the island of Cuba, Mo...