Speaking in Tokyo after China's Communist Party wrapped up its five-yearly Congress at the weekend, Ai was referring to the dramatic exit of former president Hu Jintao from the closing ceremony. Chinese state media said the frail-looking 79-year-ol...

Slowing economy China's slowing economy will likely dominate Xi's next five years in power but his decision to pack the Communist Party's top leadership with loyalists has stoked concerns about him prioritising ideology at the expense of growth. Aft...

France's Imerys announced plans on Monday to become the leading supplier of lithium in Europe through a mining project in central France as a push to make electric vehicles widely available spurs a "white gold" rush for the mineral.

But this year Jacobabad lurched from record heatwaves in May to an unprecedented deluge of rain in August that drowned crops. The floods forced tens of thousands of people to flee for makeshift camps and relatives' homes, leaving them doubting the ...

The negotiations have been flagged to start on Monday, after a surge in fighting in the north of Ethiopia in recent weeks that has triggered alarm in the international community. Ethiopia's government has also said it will participate in the negoti...

The murder and brutal assault of the girl known as Lola was branded as "evil" by President Emmanuel Macron after her body was found earlier this month stuffed into in a trunk in Paris. But it also prompted right-wing and far-right critics to accuse...

The three Barrett brothers, Scott, Jordie and Beauden, were among six New Zealand players who did not board the plane to Japan on Saturday after their grandmother died. Sam Whitelock, Will Jordan and Folau Fakatava were also left at home because of...

The 29-year-old fast bowler bagged Soumya Sarkar and Yasit Ali to draw level with Pieter Seelaar on 58 T20 wickets, taking 22 fewer games to get there. He helped tame the Bangladesh batsmen who struggled for momentum with Afif Hossain top-scoring w...

It's a typical courtroom scene in Russia. The defendant is isolated in a cage guarded by a policeman wearing a balaclava. The judge sits back as a witness unleashes the diatribe against him. The country's judicial system was heavily weighted agains...

A former Brazilian congressman with ties to President Jair Bolsonaro shot and threw grenades at police officers, injuring two, in a failed attempt to prevent his arrest, authorities said Sunday.

Ukraine has slammed Russia's unsubstantiated claims that Kyiv is planning to use a radioactive bomb in its own territory, calling the claims "dangerous" lies and prompting the US, France and Britain to jointly warn Moscow against using any pretext...

Rishi Sunak looked set to become Britain's next prime minister after Boris Johnson withdrew from the contest on Sunday, saying that although he had enough support to make the final ballot he realised the country and the Conservative Party needed un...

The Romanian was provisionally suspended at the weekend for taking the banned substance roxadustat after she provided a sample at the US Open. Halep insisted she would "fight until the end" to prove her innocence with the result "the biggest shock ...

Titled "Circular Claims Fall Flat Again," the study found that of 51 million tons of plastic waste generated by US households in 2021, only 2.4 million tons were recycled, or around five percent. After peaking in 2014 at 10 percent, the trend has b...

Homosexuality is illegal in the Gulf state which has come under intense scrutiny over its rights record before the tournament that is expected to attract at least one million foreign fans. HRW said it had "documented six cases of severe and repeate...