Iran's Revolutionary Guards announced attacks on US bases in Jordan, the UAE, Kuwait, Bahrain and Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region, in the six-month conflict's heaviest exchange in weeks. US President Donald Trump had warned earlier of "much hard...

Owner Peter Lau said he had decided to end the eight-year-old's storied racing career after consulting Hong Kong Jockey Club (HKJC) veterinarians. Scans revealed "a change in one of the horse's joints" similar to last year when Romantic Warrior had...

The 29-year-old Wong has been detained several times for his involvement in various demonstrations, including huge pro-democracy rallies that rocked Hong Kong in 2019. The subject of a Netflix documentary that depicted him in a David-and-Goliath-st...

The government had said intially it believed that more than 100 workers could be alive inside multiple tunnels. "The search and rescue operation is still underway, and foreign teams are also supporting it at the hydropower tunnels," said Shanti Mah...

A Sri Lankan official said this week that some of Asia's top teams had raised doubts over facilities and accommodation at the Games, which are taking place in Nagoya and the wider Aichi area from September 19. Cricket is a minor sport in Japan and ...

Zverev fought off a determined challenge from Sonego in a tense all-court battle spiced by unlikely retrievals, impossibly angled winners and some inexplicable errors, which wrapped up on Arthur Ashe Stadium after four hours and 53 minutes at 1:55 i...

Torches lit the way for the 30-year-old groom, known by the callsign Ice, and the 32-year-old bride, Khomochka, through the woods to the altar as fellow soldiers formed a guard of honour. "Before our brothers-in-arms and ancestors, before those no ...

In a country once a byword for political instability, Italy's first woman leader will have been in charge of the same administration for 1,413 days, one more than the late Silvio Berlusconi managed during one of his four stints in office. "It is ce...

The charismatic 65-year-old -- a frequent red carpet guest at the world's oldest film festival -- will provide a shot of A-list adrenaline despite Hollywood studios mostly staying away this year. But while the festival may lack mass-market blockbu...

Emergency teams have recovered more than 1,100 bodies, and nearly 4,500 people are missing after the gigantic wave of freezing water, rocks and debris triggered by a high-altitude glacial collapse roared down the China-Nepal border on August 26. Af...

Crude has spiked nearly 10 percent since the United States hit an Iranian island in the Strait of Hormuz at the weekend, sparking a series of tit-for-tat attacks in which Tehran has targeted American interests in several regional countries. The lat...

A huge wave of freezing water and debris killed more than 1,000 people and left nearly 4,500 missing, with Kathmandu warning reconstruction costs could run into the "billions of dollars". The Himalayan nation has limited resources to confront destr...

Not even his parents know. Indonesia has witnessed a spate of very public attacks on transgender women and gay people, pushing a community long used to living in the shadows even deeper underground. The pressure is coming from all angles. The go...

Nagai was just 19 when he set up a programme for Somali students in 2011 aimed at tackling the root causes of the brutal insurgency waged in their country by the Al-Qaeda-linked Al-Shabaab. By 2013, he had established a programme to rehabilitate So...

O'Connor signed a one-year contract with the Perth-based Force, where he made his debut as a 17-year-old in 2008, having left England's Leicester Tigers after a globe-trotting club rugby career that also took him to France and New Zealand. "I'm so...