This year's World Cup in neighbouring Qatar, by contrast, has the feel of a home game: Doha is a mere two-hour flight from his base in Jeddah, on the Red Sea coast. The close proximity has Turkistani dreaming of a ferocious turnout by football-mad ...

"I fervently hope that we can have a COP in the Amazon so I fully support this initiative by Lula," Macron said during a trip to Bangkok for an Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit. "I support the return of Brazil on an Amazon strategy. ...

After Australia captain Pat Cummins won the toss and chose to bowl, England were in trouble at 20-2 after four overs when Malan strode to the crease. When he departed, they were 259-8 with the next highest score Jos Buttler's 29. Malan's 134, his ...

Chinese President Xi Jinping flies in to the talks in Bangkok from a G20 meeting in Bali where US President Joe Biden pressed him to use his influence to rein in Pyongyang's activities. As Xi and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida prepared to me...

It was 28 degrees Celsius (82 Fahrenheit) as his family and friends used plastic rakes to help harvest olives in the last days of October, under a radiant sky. Man-made global warming has amplified extreme events like destructive floods and drought...

Footage recorded by reporters at the Bali conclave for world leaders on Wednesday showed Xi upbraiding Trudeau after details of a discussion between the two leaders were leaked to the media. Trudeau had on Tuesday raised with Xi the issue of what h...

"Still!" he tells his fellow ghost hunters. They hold their breath, waiting for a response from the shadows. It's been around two years since Bright, 39, set up "The Upsidedown" a group of paranormal enthusiasts hunting ghosts in a bid to prove the...

Germany recorded its worst bout of forest fires in 2022, and experts believe such calamities will only intensify in the coming years because of climate change. Foresters are now racing to make the woods more resilient, including by giving Germany's...

To mark the 50th anniversary of the UNESCO World Heritage Convention an international conference opens in Delphi on Thursday under the banner of "challenging times enhancing resilience and sustainability". More than half of Greece's World Heritage ...

About a dozen informal games are in progress in a carpark near the city's financial district, as metro trains glide across a bridge overhead and police watch from a parked SUV, wary of players bringing alcohol or otherwise misbehaving. Every weeken...

Few expect surprises in the vast Central Asian country's polls on Sunday, with Tokayev's victory all but a foregone conclusion. The 69-year-old is facing no real opposition candidates in the former Soviet country where critics are sidelined and all...

Leading up to the vote, Tokayev has promoted himself as a reform leader capable of bringing the country together after earlier this year authorising law enforcement to "shoot to kill" anti-government protesters. His vast, ex-Soviet country is preca...

The 1963 piece of art was sold after two minutes and a brief duel between two bidders, for a total of $74 million, or $85.4 million with all related costs and fees. The last time a piece of art from Warhol's "Death and Disaster Series" was sold in ...

His bid for an unprecedented eighth drivers’ world title at the Yas Marina circuit last December was thwarted by a combination of incorrect decisions by race officials, wretched bad luck and the opportunism of Max Verstappen. As a result, while h...

The suspects -- Russians Igor Girkin, Sergei Dubinsky, Oleg Pulatov and Ukrainian Leonid Kharchenko -- will not be in court as they have refused to attend the two-and-a-half-year trial. All 298 passengers and crew were killed when the Boeing 777 fl...