The deal announced overnight promises the Shas party five ministerial jobs in Netanyahu's incoming government, which is expected to be the most right-wing in Israel's history. "We have achieved another step towards forming a government," said Neta...

The two poorer European Union countries want to smooth trade with the rest of Europe but face concerns from Austria in particular over migration from third countries. EU justice ministers meeting in Brussels will debate the bids from Romania and Bu...

The incident involved an attempt by Australia to illegally alter the surface of the ball with sandpaper to gain an advantage against South African batsmen during a Test match in Cape Town, which was caught on camera. Warner was cast as the key vill...

That was until the Hollywood producer tracked down a red-brick 15th century pile with 60 rooms in the countryside in northwest England. In 2017 the American quit California to live full-time near Manchester and restore the building, which had falle...

Within months of the research's publication in 2016, the London-based investor says the company tracked him down, placed him under surveillance, and began trying to hack into his emails. Followed and photographed, he became so fearful for his fami...

Until now, he has spent his life entertaining visitors to the Sofra e Ariut (Bear's Table) restaurant in Tirana along with his sister Liza. But on Wednesday, under heavy anaesthetic, he started his journey to the Aberbasch shelter in northern Austr...

Israeli forces have made near-daily raids across the territory in recent months, many of them deadly, following a series of lethal attacks on Israelis. The Palestinian health ministry said three people were killed "by bullets from the Israeli occup...

Li was in a group of doctors in the central city of Wuhan who warned on social media of a new SARS-like disease spreading in December 2019, and was reprimanded by police for spreading "rumours". He later died of the coronavirus, triggering an outpo...

Beijing's National Health Commission (NHC) on Wednesday announced a nationwide loosening of its zero-Covid restrictions, reducing the scope of mandatory testing, allowing some positive cases to quarantine at home, and ending large-scale lockdowns. ...

Tatum and Brown each scored 25 points as the Celtics improved the NBA's best record to 21-5 with a 125-98 blowout victory at Western Conference leader Phoenix. Boston stayed two games atop Milwaukee in the Eastern Conference while Phoenix fell to 1...

"It's another nail in the coffin at the moment. A big nail," Dede Oetomo, an activist with the LGBTQ rights group GAYa NUSANTARA, told AFP. Once enacted, the legislation approved Tuesday in parliament would punish sex outside marriage with one year...

"The Champions Cup is the equivalent of the Champions League in football -- competing in it is like playing a Test every Saturday," he told AFP. His Bulls team face Lyon and Exeter this month, the Stormers meet Clermont and London Irish, while the ...

The six-part fly-on-the-wall documentary, "Harry and Meghan", promises to lift the lid on events that prompted the pair to quit royal life and move to the United States in 2020. Trailers aired in the run-up to the much-hyped Netflix release suggest...

The trial in Munich comes two and a half years after digital payments firm Wirecard collapsed in spectacular fashion after admitting that 1.9 billion euros ($2 billion) missing from its accounts didn't actually exist. Chancellor Olaf Scholz, who wa...

Perez, who was forced to resign in 2015, was found guilty of racketeering and fraud targeting the customs system, Judge Irma Jeannette Valdes said as she read out the sentence. Perez was sentenced to eight years on each count. His former vice pres...