The group said earlier this month it would incur colossal charges to finance a shift back to combustion engines and away from producing EVs after sales fell well below expectations. US auto giants Ford and General Motors also recently announced mul...

PSG once again showed moments of weakness but ultimately prevailed as the European champions advanced to the Champions League round of 16 after a 2-2 draw at home against 10-man Monaco (5-4 on aggregate). They will face either Barcelona or Chelsea i...

Dangerously high radiation levels make removing melted fuel and other debris from the plant hit by a huge tsunami in 2011 the most daunting challenge in the decades-long decommissioning project. Around 880 tonnes of hazardous material remain inside...

Amplifying the repression, Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko on Tuesday unveiled legislation that would double the maximum penalty for same-sex relations, making them punishable by up to 10 years in prison. Homosexuality has long been a hot-button issu...

Kwok Yin-sang, 69, is the father of Anna Kwok, an overseas pro-democracy advocate with a HK$1 million ($128,000) bounty on her by the city's authorities since 2023. Hong Kong later made it a crime under its homegrown national security law, passed i...

Last September, Prime Minister Edi Rama announced with much fanfare he had appointed what he claimed was the first AI-generated minister, tasked with preventing corruption in public tenders. Within days, the "minister" would deliver its inaugural p...

Three centres offering hundreds of co-working spaces to online workers have sprung up in the town in recent years, supported by a fast internet connection and improved infrastructure. "I read that this was the best place to start as a digital nomad...

The reformist People's Party "submitted a case" to a criminal court against seven election commissioners, the Election Commission's secretary-general and another election official, deputy party leader Wayo Assawarungruang said. "Two charges involve...

The Australian leader's comments were condemned, however, by the outspoken activist Grace Tame who labelled them a "patronising cop out from a total coward". The prime minister was asked at a forum the previous day to give one-word reactions to var...

A statement named the director behind "Oldboy" (2003) as president of the body that will award the 2026 Palme d'Or. Last year the award went to Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi's "It Was Just an Accident." The appointment, which organisers called "a...

Devin Vassell scored 21 points and De'Aaron Fox added 20 for the Spurs, who overcame a lackluster offensive night from superstar Victor Wembanyama to push their win streak to double digits for the first time since the 2015-16 season. The French big...

Merz's first official visit to China came as Berlin and Beijing seek to build on decades-old economic ties to weather global uncertainty sparked by US President Donald Trump's tariff blitz and erratic foreign policies. China, the world's number two...

The landlocked Himalayan nation of 30 million people will elect a new government on March 5, six months after youth-led demonstrations brought down the administration of Marxist leader KP Sharma Oli. Who will win is an open question, but Nepali jou...

Calling the appointment "a first for Korean cinema", a statement named the director behind "Oldboy" (2003) as president of the jury that will award the 2026 Palme d'Or. Last year the award went to Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi's "It Was Just an Ac...

Turnbull -- who served as prime minister from 2015 to 2018 -- led the country's Republic Movement's unsuccessful 1999 referendum bid to replace the British monarchy with an Australian head of state. Almost three decades on from that poll and as the...