There is "a likelihood that this memorandum of understanding agreement could be a game changer", Carney told reporters on the third day of a G7 leaders' meeting in the French town of Evian. He pointed to encouraging discussions, which included US P...

Portuguese great Ronaldo, 41, has a tough act to follow after his old nemesis Lionel Messi scored a spectacular hat-trick for Argentina on Tuesday to equal the all-time World Cup goalscoring record, making a mockery of his 38 years. Between them, R...

The US Marines will include Australia in a global prepositioning programme for weapons, ammunition and vehicles for the first time, AFP reported on Tuesday, citing tender documents. An initial stockpile in Melbourne city will move to US warehouses ...

It will be the second spell of hot temperatures this year, after an unusually scorching week in May smashed records in half of the country. "A heatwave episode will gradually set in across the country this week," said Christelle Robert, of national...

Talk of securing access to AI will be on the agenda both in the French capital and at the G7 summit in Evian, where President Donald Trump and the heads of US tech giants are meeting leaders of top industrial economies. Washington last week pushed ...

Among the country's biggest ice cream firms, the six "are suspected of colluding" to hike prices, a source familiar with the matter told AFP on Wednesday. Company officials are thought to have sent emails or met up for years to coordinate the timin...

France beat Senegal in their opening World Cup match (3-1). With a brace, captain Kylian Mbappé is now the all-time leading goalscorer for France, with 58 goals.

For years a political outsider, Pauline Hanson's One Nation has surged this year to become the country's most popular party, according to opinion polls. The senator -- long compared to US President Donald Trump or France's Marine Le Pen -- is also ...

From bags and bicycles to surfboards and suitcases, the Japanese second-hand market is booming, with quality-conscious buyers in other Asian countries increasingly tapping into the circular economy trend. "What is considered garbage for them can st...

The 38-year-old Argentina captain etched another memorable chapter in his glittering career with a brilliant hat-trick in the South Americans' 3-0 win over Algeria in Kansas City. Messi's hat-trick -- his first ever at a World Cup -- vaulted him al...

Putin has sought to deepen political and economic ties with Asia during Moscow's more than four-year full-scale offensive against Ukraine. The summit in the capital of Tatarstan, around 700 kilometres (435 miles) east of Moscow, comes as the G7 mee...

Searchers tracked down the carnivorous marsupial the previous night in the bush, less than two kilometres (1.2 miles) from her home in the Paradise Country park on Queensland's Gold Coast. "Upon finding her, Mary was in an unstable condition, and t...

Led by businessman and ex-football chairman Rupert Lowe, Restore is tipped to deprive Farage's Reform UK party of victory over the ruling Labour party in a crunch special election on Thursday. Lowe, 68, formed Restore as an alternative on the right...

The ornate stone balconies of the decaying colonial townhouses jutting above your head are liable to collapse at any moment. Tens of thousands of people housed in these monuments to pre-revolutionary Cuba, which were subdivided into apartments afte...