Mark Owen is pleased to welcome Yossi Mekelberg, Senior Consulting Fellow of the Middle East and North Africa Programme at Chatham House. Can Israel continue to define its future primarily through security and territorial control? Mekelberg challeng...

The 100m sprints are one of the highlights of any Games, but the 30,000-capacity Mizuho Park Athletic Stadium appeared to be only about one-quarter full on Friday night for the blue-riband events. Even the prospect of a women's pole vault gold for ...

Instead, he was pulled out of his class every day for several hours to learn German under a flagship programme meant to bring newcomers like him up to par with the national language. But an assessment has shown the programme -- long decried by crit...

Masha is among those taking extra precautions after nine women, including avid runner Elizabeth Moselakgomo, were found murdered in Johannesburg's East Rand in two months -- some of them partially naked and battered. "Our runner was brutally kille...

Traditional music and tearful relatives welcomed the 45-year-old when he returned home on Friday after spending weeks recovering at a hospital in Kathmandu. "Life is precious. Hundreds of people have died but I survived," the father of two told AFP...

Indonesia has been battling fires for weeks in parts of Borneo and Sumatra, sending suffocating haze across the islands and neighbouring Malaysia and Singapore. Fires are currently burning within habitats containing 52 percent of Borneo's orangutan...

Chen stormed to victory in a Games-record 11.06sec in Nagoya to showcase her potential. Chen, who turns 18 in December, called Friday's emphatic victory "the best present for my birthday". But the teenager does not want to stop there. "Now I am t...

The bespectacled primary school student, believed to be the youngest competitor at the Games in Aichi-Nagoya, won the Puyo Puyo Champions final 10-2. He is the youngest athlete in host country Japan's Asian Games history. Puyo Puyo Champions is a ...

The secretive nation has been the dominant force in global weightlifting since emerging from self-imposed Covid exile to smash six world records at the Hangzhou Asian Games in 2023. They also won six golds. At the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games in Japan...

A trial had been set to begin Monday in the southern US state over claims by Alabama that TikTok misled parents about tools meant to shield children from harmful content. Attorney General Steve Marshall hailed the settlement as "a great day for Ala...

More than a century after sparking an oil boom that transformed Venezuela, the small town of Mene Grande is again in the sights of investors. The United States has claimed a 20 percent stake in Venezuela's vast oil reserves -- including many local ...

Ants are disappearing from the table in Brazil, one Danish chef is opting for cocoa-free chocolate and Japan is serving up warm-water fish, culinary stars disclosed at the Apapaxoa gastronomic festival on Mexico's Caribbean coast. United Nations ex...

President Donald Trump and Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping concluded a pomp-filled summit Friday, with the US leader confirming they would meet twice more this year. But even as Trump and Xi "are making nice," their countries "remain locked in a bit...

"It's so cool to think we're lucky enough to meet the Pope," the teenager told AFP, sitting on the ground outside the Stade de France with her friend, Pia Machet, also 17. The two were among some 80,000 Catholic youth who filled the stadium in the ...

Trailing 3-2 after Thursday's opening four-ball matches, the Internationals won all five of day two's foursomes to open up a four-point cushion heading into the weekend at Medinah Country Club. Canadian duo Corey Conners and Nick Taylor produced on...