The World Series champion Dodgers, led by Japanese slugger Ohtani, will open the new Major League Baseball season with two games against the Chicago Cubs at the Tokyo Dome next week. Ohtani is an icon in Japan and excitement is reaching fever pitch...

No one enters or leaves without the guerrillas' say-so, state-issued IDs are worthless and cocaine production is not just tolerated, but encouraged. Welcome to Micay Canyon, a lush mountain-fringed valley in southwest Colombia where the self-style...

The number of people prosecuted for spying for Beijing has soared, with retired and serving members of Taiwan's military the main targets of Chinese infiltration efforts, official figures show. China claims Taiwan as part of its territory and has t...

"I have experienced circumstances of harassment, circumstances of disrespect, belittling, and even to the point of... getting shut down," said Elaine Gomez, 34, a freelance developer from New Jersey. Big names in gaming such as France's Ubisoft (pu...

The Briton came tantalisingly close to dethroning Red Bull's Max Verstappen as world champion in 2024 and is widely expected to be battling at the front of the grid again this year. "It's motivated everyone even more from a team perspective," he sa...

Seven & i, the Japanese parent company of 7-Eleven -- the world's biggest convenience store brand -- rebuffed an ACT takeover offer worth nearly $40 billion last year. Despite a sweetened bid reportedly worth around $47 billion, Seven & i announced...

Security forces said they freed more than 340 train passengers in a two-day rescue operation that ended late on Wednesday after a separatist group bombed a remote railway track in mountainous southwest Balochistan and stormed a train with around 450...

The performance in a Changhua County farming community is a modern mash-up of ancient Chinese funeral rites and folk traditions, with saxophones, rock music and daring outfits. Da Zhong women's group is part of a long tradition of funeral marching ...

The Dutchman claimed his fourth straight world title in Las Vegas in November with two races to spare. The 27-year-old is now bidding to join an even more exclusive club with only Michael Schumacher winning five championships in a row. But while h...

Rubio arrived in the town of Charlevoix on the banks of the St. Lawrence River on Wednesday for meetings with foreign ministers from the club of the world's industrialized democracies. He is expected to brief on the US-led effort to pause three ye...

The 23-year-old, who was already under contract until 2026, signed a multi-year extension with the British team ahead of the season-opening race in Melbourne. "It felt like just a very natural progression to sign for even longer term," Piastri said...

After 12 years with Mercedes he will race for the first time in the Ferrari red at the season-opening Australian Grand Prix this week, knowing expectations are high. The seven-time world champion officially began work at the Scuderia in January aft...

Richer nations committed at the UN COP29 summit in November to boost spending on climate action in developing countries to $300 billion a year by 2035, an amount decried as woefully inadequate. Since then, President Donald Trump has frozen US contr...

In a now-deleted video posted to Instagram this week, the woman can be seen picking up the hissing wild animal before declaring to the camera: "I caught a baby wombat". The woman -- identified in Australian media as American outdoors influencer Sa...

Deep-sea mining in international waters involves taking minerals like nickel, cobalt and copper -- crucial for renewable energy technology -- from the sea floor. But researchers and environmentalists have long warned it risks destroying habitats an...