The polls are the culmination of an on-off peace process that began in the late 1990s and established the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) in the country's far south. More than two million voters are eligible to vote for 80 p...

Former Spain coach Moreno, who was forced to deny earlier this year that he used ChatGPT to prepare for games, will be in charge for friendly matches in the coming months. The Korea Football Association (KFA) said he could stay on for the Asian Cup...

Paris Saint-Germain secured their first win of the season away at Brest (1-0), bringing the fourth matchday of Ligue 1 to a close. Ferran Torres, who remains in fine form, scored the only goal of the match (5').

Authorities said they received a report of a "shark incident" around 9:45 am (0145 GMT) at Glenfield Beach, just over 400 kilometres (250 miles) north of Perth. The man is in a "serious but stable condition", national broadcaster ABC said, citing l...

India hammered Sri Lanka by 72 runs in the T20 final in Dubai on Sunday but Harmanpreet Kaur's side skipped the trophy presentation, repeating the stance of the men's team last year. On both occasions the trophy was supposed to have been handed ove...

Beds in shipping container-style huts are too short for players to stretch out, a South Korean basketball chief said, while officials from the Philippines resorted to Airbnb. There is no dedicated athletes' village at the Games, with organisers ins...

In a landslide victory following Sunday's vote, Genta Koja beat incumbent Denny Tamaki, who has long pushed for a major US military base to be moved out of Okinawa, Japan's southernmost prefecture. Koja, 42, accepts a central government plan to kee...

The siblings' parents were born in China and their mother represented the country -- which has long dominated table tennis -- at the 1995 world championships. But Tomokazu and Miwa were born and raised in Japan, where their parents moved in 1998 to...

The prospect of higher US borrowing costs compounded a tech selloff that came after leaders of companies at the forefront of the AI boom backed calls for a slowdown in development in the sector amid warnings that it could pose a threat to humanity. ...

Harbouring one of the world's largest copper deposits, the Panguna mine in autonomous Bougainville has been shuttered since the outbreak of civil war in the late 1980s. Bougainville President Ishmael Toroama has vowed to revive the mine, a crucial ...

The top-seeded German ruthlessly snuffed out a late surge by Shelton to triumph 6-3, 7-6 (7/2), 5-7, 6-2, crushing the eighth seed's hopes of becoming the first US man in 23 years to win a Grand Slam title. Zverev expunged the bitter memory of his ...

Age gaps in digital literacy are a global concern, yet the gulf has widened massively in the hyper-connected and fast-ageing country, prompting national campaigns to bridge it. "You can't do anything without smartphone apps or a kiosk machine... It...

Sarwar, 25, is one of an estimated half a million migrant workers who stream into the Himalayan region each year, forming the backbone of an economy increasingly reliant on labour from some of India's poorest states. The dependence has endured desp...

Accused of authoritarianism and trampling women's rights, Filimonov will represent the ruling United Russia party in this month's tightly-controlled parliamentary elections. Some 450 kilometres (280 miles) north-west of Moscow, the 46-year-old nat...

Gaza's youngest already face an extremely precarious entry into the world, given the dire humanitarian situation in the war-shattered territory that borders Israel and Egypt. But for babies needing specialist care, such as those born prematurely, ...