Some 20,000 guests from 130 countries are set to attend the three-day annual Saint Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) -- an event once dubbed "Russia's Davos" -- which starts Wednesday. The strikes come a day after a barrage of Russian...

"The Iran national football team will depart Antalya for Tijuana at 15:20 (1220 GMT) on Saturday, June 6, and is scheduled to arrive in Mexico at 1:30 am (0730 GMT) on Sunday, June 7," it said. The Iran players, who have been at a training camp in ...

Top directors, producers and actors have backed the campaign by animal rights group PETA India, which this month highlighted how the rise of slick AI images provide even less reason to use real animals. "Elephants shouldn't suffer for our entertain...

Global economic growth is now forecast to slip to 2.8 percent for 2026 if Gulf exports of oil and gas return to pre-conflict levels in the third quarter, the group of 38 industrialised countries said in its quarterly update. Previously the OECD had...

Squeezed between Russia and Kremlin-allied Belarus, Lithuania has for years been warning of the risks to Russia's Baltic neighbours. But as Ukraine stepped up its retaliatory strikes on Russian oil hubs in the Baltic Sea and its drones were found ...

Gane will take on Brazilian Alex Pereira in a special June 14 bout organised in the White House on the day of US President Donald Trump's 80th birthday, as part of the 250th anniversary celebrations for the founding of the United States of America. ...

The tourists were swept aside 4-1 in Australia in a series that ended in January, sparking renewed criticism of Brendon McCullum's men over their ultra-aggressive "Bazball" style of cricket. Attacking cricket has been the hallmark of McCullum's fou...

Dozens of people congregated at the apartment building where she used to live for a chance to take a photo of the 64-year-old, some of them calling her "our neighbour". The former athlete recounted her life as a kid who had to wake up early and tra...

It was New Zealand's heaviest loss in nine years and a rude awakening with a friendly against England next and the World Cup in North America just over a week away. The game at Inter Miami's stadium in Fort Lauderdale -- which teed up two of the lo...

Andrie Yunus, 27, of the KontraS rights group, suffered serious injuries when two men on a scooter threw acid at him in March while he was riding a motorbike. He had just finished recording a podcast about the military's influence on the Indonesian...

In four years of Moscow's full-scale offensive against Ukraine, war has become omnipresent in Russia -- even if the battlefield seems distant. Hundreds of thousands of men have been at the front and Kyiv's retaliatory strikes regularly hit Russian...

The 59-year-old author from the northern German city of Hamburg still recalls the horror she felt on seeing the images last year of a "completely dazed woman in various rape scenarios". "That woman was me," she told AFP about the images from videos...

Alexander Zverev defeated Rafael Jodar (7-6, 6-1, 6-3) in the quarter-finals at Roland Garros. Having now reached the semi-finals, he can still hope to win his first Grand Slam title.

The European Union's second- and third-biggest economies, France and Italy, have already been handed formal reprimands alongside eight other member states. The EU executive will publish its views Wednesday on each country's public spending and issu...

The Soma Nomaoi began as a way to train mounted warriors and it still looks the same a millennium later, with riders dressed in samurai armour competing in horseback events. Until 2024, the festival took place at the height of Japan's gruelling sum...