Shchedrin, husband of late ballet legend Maya Plisetskaya, was "one of the greatest contemporary geniuses", whose "operas, ballets and symphonies are played on the world's greatest stages", the theatre said in a statement. "Rodion Shchedrin was a u...

Paul Leterrier fought in the 1942 battle of Bir-Hakeim in Libya with the Free French Forces who had evaded the German occupation of the country. Leterrier, who joined up with the Free French in 1941 following the Nazi occupation of France, had in 2...

Paetongtarn, daughter of controversial billionaire ex-prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, was suspended from office last month after being accused of failing to stand up for Thailand in a June call with powerful former Cambodian leader Hun Sen, which...

Tom Phillips absconded with his three children in December 2021 after a row with his former partner. He has eluded capture ever since, and police say they think he has been hiding out in the rolling hill country of the North Island's Waikato region...

Destruction of telecoms infrastructure is rife in Africa's most populous country, from jihadist groups aiming to create communications blackouts to outright theft of cables and parts, as well as generators and diesel from substations. But now some ...

Hundreds of protesters rallied near the Indonesian parliament complex Thursday as anger rose over hefty pay for lawmakers -- including a monthly housing allowance of 50 million rupiah (US$3,034), nearly ten times the minimum wage in Jakarta. It fo...

"I've been a DJ for 16 years. Today I'm really good... There's not a person I can't get onto the dancefloor," she told AFP at her seniors' residence in a leafy neighbourhood of southern Stockholm. DJ Gloria, whose real name is Madelein Mansson, pla...

Japan in recent years has been shedding its strict pacifist stance, moving to obtain "counterstrike" capabilities and doubling military spending to two percent of GDP. The defence ministry's new budget request made on Friday for the coming fiscal y...

A jury convicted Matt Wright, star of the "Wild Croc Territory", "Monster Croc Wrangler" and "Outback Wrangler" series, of two counts of perverting the course of justice, court documents showed. The month-long trial at Darwin Supreme Court followed...

But although the healthcare coverage has been available for six years, many Ivorians still have not signed up for it -- and those that have often don't bother trying to use it. Disillusionment and a lack of confidence in accessing the promised bene...

The 14th-seeded American finally made it count after 4hr 25mins to pull through 7-6 (8/6), 6-3, 5-7, 5-7, 7-5 in New York. Late-night finishes in tennis have been a recurring theme, especially at the Australian Open and the US Open, where Carlos Al...

The heavily armed 56-year-old suspect, Dezi Freeman, fled into the bush Tuesday after opening fire on a team of 10 police officers at his home in the northeast of Victoria state. The "horrific" shooting in the rural town of Porepunkah killed 59-yea...

Slickly produced and star-studded, "Dead to Rights" is set in Nanjing, then China's capital, during six weeks of mass murder, rape and looting by the Japanese army in 1937 that killed tens if not hundreds of thousands. In keeping with other films a...

Neither of the Glasgow clubs reached the league phase of European club football's elite competition for the first time since 2021. Celtic were unable to score a goal across two legs -- and 210 minutes of play -- before losing to unheralded Kazakh c...

West Coast Eagles star Adam Hunter died in February aged 43 with his parents donating his brain to the Australian Sports Brain Bank. His mother Joanne told national broadcaster ABC that he had chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a degenerative ...