"It's true - he's coming back," wrote the five-time Tour de France winner's UAE Team Emirates on social media platform X to announce his participation in the race which starts on August 22. The 27-year-old Slovenian will be favourite to triumph in ...

The rebuttal by the Iranian foreign ministry follows Trump saying he had held off launching new strikes on the Islamic republic to allow for further diplomatic efforts, a familiar pattern in the conflict. Washington and Tehran have been at war sinc...

Greece is facing a growing wildfire catastrophe after a week of destructive blazes across the country was compounded by a deadly mid-air collision between two firefighting helicopters. Fires have sparked across the country, including just seventy ki...

The death toll from a mass rush of migrants from Morocco into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta last week reached at least 72 on Sunday, as five more bodies were found along the North African coast, officials said. Moroccan authorities meanwhile report 1...

Greece, which had largely avoided major blazes at the start of the summer unlike France and Spain, is now grappling with a second consecutive week of wildfires that have scorched thousands of hectares of forest, scrubland and farmland. "Today we ar...

Stuart Norval is pleased to welcome Camille Le Coz, Director at Migration Policy Institute Europe. Le Coz offers a nuanced interpretation of the recent events in Ceuta that challenges the dominant political narratives emerging across Europe. She shi...

Firefighters in Europe and around the world are encountering wildfires of a new intensity -- extreme weather events scientists have linked to human-made climate change. For Australians, such fires are all too familiar. The country has long been p...

"We've done some very, very intricate operating today," said the 60-year-old consultant thoracic surgeon. "We've saved a lot of lung, we've gone around some really, really small vessels and really small airways." He was addressing three surgeons f...

Thousands of people were ordered to evacuate their homes over the weekend as three separate fires broke out in and around the city in the east of Washington state. The National Weather Service (NWS) had warned of "extremely critical fire weather co...

There were 236 people on board the vessel when it left Indonesia's second-largest city, Surabaya, for Makassar on Sulawesi island on Sunday morning, search and rescue agency head Nanang Sigit said. Nanang told Kompas TV on Monday 229 people had bee...

Todd Blanche's announcement came after the Senate Judiciary Committee pushed back a vote on advancing his nomination owing to his weekslong dispute with Republican Senators John Cornyn of Texas and Thom Tillis of North Carolina. Cornyn and Tillis h...

FIFA President Gianni Infantino is under pressure after abandoning plans to sell a stake in the World Cup to private ​investors. Infantino's plans fell apart after UEFA's 55-member nations agreed to boycott the World Cup and all other FIFA comp...

The military deposed Suu Kyi in February 2021, jailing the Nobel Peace Prize laureate and triggering an ongoing civil war that has killed more than 100,000 people, according to monitor ACLED. The coup leader and former junta chief, Min Aung Hlaing,...

Alan Jones faced a local court in Sydney for the opening day of a trial that will examine allegations he indecently assaulted six young men across a stretch of almost 20 years. The 85-year-old is a household name across Australia and held immense s...

The positive development in the five-month Middle East war did little to support Asian equities, with tech chipmakers SK hynix and Samsung dragging South Korea's Kospi down after Friday's record-breaking rally. The US president said on Sunday that ...