The ruling on Thursday provoked outrage. "The AFL advises that it has terminated the appointment of Will Houghton KC as Chair of the AFL Appeals Board effective immediately," the Australian Football League said in a statement Saturday. "Houghton s...

US envoys head to Islamabad US envoys headed to the Pakistani capital Saturday in a bid to kickstart a new round of peace negotiations with Iran amid a fragile ceasefire, though the prospect of direct talks remained uncertain. The White House said e...

Four decades later, a second war -- Russia's invasion of Ukraine -- has taken his son. Solovyov, 67, a hard rock fan, still wears his hair long, though it has turned grey. On the night of the world's worst nuclear accident, he was working as a tur...

Flush with cash, the firms are also wooing the general public, insisting that artificial intelligence will be a force for good -- and not a destroyer of jobs or an existential threat for humanity. ChatGPT maker OpenAI unveiled this month a 13-page ...

As of Saturday morning, blazes in the mountainous areas of Iwate region had burned about 700 hectares (1,730 acres) since breaking out three days ago, local government officials said in a statement. A large column of smoke, which could be smelled 3...

James, the 41-year-old superstar playing in his 19th post-season, came up with a steal and a game-tying three-pointer with 13.6 seconds left in regulation. He couldn't get a potential game-winner to drop at the buzzer, but added a steal and a block...

But they weren't there to pray the Canadiens beat the Tampa Bay Lightning in Game 3 of their first round series -- they were there to drink beer and watch the game. "Hockey is a religion in Quebec," said Francoise Dancause, artistic director of the...

The White House Correspondents' Association (WHCA), which organizes the annual meeting of the political press, opted not to go with a comedian host this year, as is tradition, but instead invited a mentalist and magician, Oz Pearlman. Since his ret...

In 2022, during the last review of the treaty that is considered the cornerstone of non-proliferation, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned humanity was "one misunderstanding, one miscalculation away from nuclear annihilation." The situatio...

The clash in a courtroom across the bay from San Francisco pits the world's richest man against a startup that Musk once backed and now competes against in the booming AI sector. OpenAI's ChatGPT is a formidable rival to the Grok chatbot made by Mu...

Under a 2020 regulation, all electronic system providers (PSEs) must register in Indonesia for what the government calls legal and user protection purposes before making their services available. Critics have pointed to a provision that requires re...

China at the time was emerging from the tumult of the Cultural Revolution, and on the brink of market reforms that would take the country from economic stagnation to explosive growth. "All we could see was lines of people running beside our bus, tr...

Wembanyama had been listed as "questionable" on the Spurs injury report, but coach Mitch Johnson announced less than two hours before tip-off that the 22-year-old Frenchman wouldn't play. "Victor is not playing tonight," Johnson said. "Obviously, t...

In their final year of high school, all are on the brink of Lithuania's newly-reformed draft policy, expanded to make all 18- to 22-year-old men who pass a health check eligible, as the small neighbour of Russia and Belarus seeks to deter any aggres...

Ultra-conservative candidate and former mayor of Lima, Rafael Lopez Aliaga -- who is still vying to be on the June ballot -- had requested a new election in Peru's capital, arguing that problems at polling stations there had prevented thousands of h...