Floodwaters were slowly subsiding but more than 20 emergency warnings remained in place, with the focus shifting to assessing properties and delivering supplies to cut-off communities. NSW emergency authorities estimated up to 10,000 properties had...

Banteng are a type of wild cattle native to Southeast Asia and listed as critically endangered on the International Union for Conservation of Nature's Red List of threatened species. Their natural habitat is forests and grasslands, but only a few t...

The 45-year-old director said he was inspired by a news report about a Japanese "idol", as the starlets are known, who was sued by her management agency after breaking a "no dating" clause. Fukada cast former idol Saito Kyoko in the lead role of hi...

World number one Sinner, 23, and the 22-year-old Alcaraz have garnered seven Grand Slam titles already between them. By comparison Nadal, Federer -- both of whom have retired -- and Djokovic, a trio known as the 'Big Three', swept up 66 from 2003 t...

With the aid of shovels, brooms and wheelbarrows -- and a dose of elbow grease -- the 180 or so specialised staff, most of whom are temporary workers, toil from dawn till dusk to whip the 18 courts into pristine condition for the year's second Grand...

As the English top-flight season comes to an end on Sunday, Forest and Chelsea are among five clubs chasing the three remaining top five spots, along with Manchester City, Newcastle and Aston Villa. Unai Emery's Villa travel to face troubled Manche...

The casts and directors of the 22 films selected for the main competition are anxiously waiting to hear if they have won prizes, above all the Palme d'Or for best film. AFP looks back at some of the highlights of the last 11 days ahead of the start...

After almost a fortnight of glamorous red carpets and some politics, French actor Juliette Binoche and her jury will announce the winner from the 22 films vying for one of the world's most prestigious cinema awards. The best-reviewed contenders inc...

The American's unflappable demeanor and sharp course management left her a stroke ahead of her compatriot Brianna Do and China's Miranda Wang, whose scintillating second-round 65 shook up the leaderboard at the $2.5 million LPGA event. The 23-year...

The livewire Reece burrowed over from close range early in a tense 15-12 win over the Highlanders in Christchurch on Saturday. It was his 66th try, all for the Crusaders and the most by any player in the 30-year history of the competition -- one mo...

Griffin and Schmid hold a two-stroke lead over American John Pak but world number one Scottie Scheffler, chasing a third straight win on tour, was 10 strokes off the leaders after shooting one over-par. The leading pair both shot 7-under rounds of ...

The arrest of Guanipa, a 60-year-old former MP and close ally of opposition leader Maria Corina Machado, comes amid rising tensions ahead of Sunday's election. Machado has called on voters to spurn the ballot, which comes 10 months after elections ...

Under an "agreement in principle," Boeing will pay $1.1 billion and the Department of Justice (DOJ) would dismiss a criminal charge against Boeing over its conduct in the certification of the MAX, DOJ said in a federal filing. A judge must approve ...

"Claude Opus 4 is our most powerful model yet, and the best coding model in the world," Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei said at the San Francisco-based startup's first developers conference. Opus 4 and Sonnet 4 were described as "hybrid" mod...

In Florida's Everglades National Park, this year's unusually severe drought is threatening ecosystems and economic activity. For years, water flowed down from the mountains to sustain the largest wetland in the United States, but rivers have since b...