Across the country, pedestrians are routinely forced to walk on busy roads, despite a recent ruling by the Supreme Court that said citizens have a "fundamental right" to safety on footpaths. The ruling in June stemmed from the death of a five-year-...

In a dusty clearing they lined up to salute the red and white flags of the pro-democracy People's Defence Forces (PDFs) that fled the towns and cities to take up arms against the junta after a 2021 military coup. Around 100 fighters are based at th...

The hushed-up, nighttime operation was the result of years of negotiations, tricky logistical planning and multiple technical studies to ensure the integrity of the medieval artwork. Fears for the safety of the lace-like delicate tapestry, which ha...

The Munster lock has been capped 71 times and assumed the responsibility mid-way through a Test before, but has never started as skipper. That will change on Saturday in Newcastle, north of Sydney, when Ireland face Eddie Jones's Japan in the Natio...

Even Pacific nations indebted to Beijing joined criticism of Monday's submarine-launched ballistic missile test, which reached far into the Pacific Ocean. The term "Blue continent" is used by Pacific Islands to describe a joint home and shared stew...

The Jatiwaringin landfill in the Tangerang district west of Jakarta caught fire on June 30, prompting the local government to declare a two-week emergency. More than 230 people earlier evacuated the area and 331 cases of acute respiratory syndrome ...

Meredith has been rushed into the team after Carter Gordon and Ben Donaldson were both ruled out with calf injuries. The 27-year-old Meredith had a brilliant start to the Super Rugby season, but faded in the latter half as the ACT Brumbies' challen...

Typhoon Bavi is expected to pound Taiwan's north and east, as well as Japan's remote southwestern islands, on Friday and Saturday before smashing into China, which has been hit by deadly storms this week. Two landslides triggered by heavy rains dri...

Les Bleus advanced to the World Cup semi-finals for the third consecutive time on Thursday. Didier Deschamps' side struggled for the first 45 minutes against Morocco’s defence before making the breakthrough in the second half thanks to Kylian Mbap...

AFP journalists at the British Museum saw a metal case holding the 11th-century work being unloaded from a truck which carried it across the Channel in a hushed-up, high-security operation. "It's a unique moment and it's the product of so much hard...

On the agenda are trade, tourism and sport -- but recent undercurrents of anti-migrant sentiment risk tarnishing his trip to a nation long proud of its tolerance. New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon celebrated the signing in April of the f...

Australia was for years the only continental landmass to be free of the H5 strain, which has caused severe disease and high death rates in poultry and wild birds worldwide. A total of 12 cases of H5 bird flu have been confirmed in Australia since J...

The attacks cast a shadow over the first trip by a European Union head of state since Bashar al-Assad was toppled in late 2024, as President Ahmed al-Sharaa tries to rebuild the country's image after more than a decade of conflict. In a joint press...