Tung, who died this month at the age of 89, was a former shipping tycoon hand-picked by Beijing to run Hong Kong after the former British colony's handover to Chinese rule in 1997. The stauch conservative oversaw a rocky eight-year tenure until he ...

Saturday's gala at the 30,000-capacity stadium officially launched the continent's premier sporting event, with Japan's emperor and empress in attendance. Fireworks brought the show to a rousing conclusion, but while parts of the arena were full, o...

Hojo finished the 750m swim, 20km bike ride and 5,000m run in 52min 56sec, nine seconds clear of China's Zhang Xirui in silver with Kazakhstan's Arlan Zhanabay a further six seconds behind. "As it's our first gold medal it's given the Japanese team...

Asia's biggest sporting spectacle, which opened on Saturday in the Japanese city of Nagoya, has split with past Games by having no traditional athletes' village. To save costs, the more than 17,000 Asian Games participants will stay in temporary hu...

Yu became the youngest swimming world championships medallist in history last year when she won bronze as a 12-year-old as part of China's 4x200m freestyle relay team. She also finished a whisker outside the medals in fourth in three world individu...

Japan's Takumi Hojo won the men's individual triathlon with China's Zhang Xirui second and Kazakhstan's Arlan Zhanabay taking bronze. It was the first of 469 gold medals to be awarded at the two-week spectacle in Aichi-Nagoya that has more athletes...

But the alarming hacking ability of top artifical intelligence models is leading Beijing to see the dangers in a new light, with the spy agency chief warning this week that the technology could jeopardise national security. The potential vulnerabil...

Analysts sit surrounded by digital maps and dashboards at the Singapore command centre of US firm Digital Realty, a major global operator of the warehouse-like sites filled with whirring servers. The goal is not simply to react when something break...

"There's still no clarity," Munoz told AFP inside the tribe's traditional meeting hall. "What will happen to us? That's our biggest question." In April, the United States announced that the Philippines had joined Pax Silica, a US-led effort to st...

Here are some of the key issues the pontiff is expected to face while on the first official visit to France by a head of the Catholic Church in 18 years: Clerical abuse The Vatican announced in August that Pope Leo XIV will meet victims of clerical ...

When elected to lead the world's 1.4 billion Catholics on May 8, 2025, the former Robert Francis Prevost from Chicago had on-the-ground experience from more than two decades as a missionary in Peru, as well as insider knowledge of the Vatican and Ro...

Pope Leo XIV's visit to France from September 25 to 28, which includes events at the Notre-Dame Cathedral and the Champs-Elysees, will involve some 15,000 members of the security forces. The groundwork for this visit -- the first papal trip to Pari...

Only a tiny fraction of Americans are transgender. But controversy over the minority's rights, especially the presence of a handful of transgender athletes in women's sports, has proved political dynamite in Trump's hands before -- and, he says, wi...

And it has taken far longer for the story of his feat to be memorialized in film. "I don't know why it took so long to tell this story," said Jennifer Peedom, the director of the biographical drama "Tenzing." "For me, it's always been the most int...