Taiwan has previously blamed Chinese hackers for carrying out most of the millions of cyberattacks affecting the island democracy on a daily basis, but did not identify a particular country in this latest incident. China claims Taiwan is part of it...

Australian Open champion Rybakina delivered another gutsy comeback, beating fourth-seeded Coco Gauff 5-7, 6-2, 6-2 to reach Thursday's final in the hard court warm-up for the US Open. Former world number one Swiatek, seeded seventh, is in her first...

Pallister emerged from a back-and-forth battle with the Canadian star with a victory in 1min 53.67sec -- a championship record for the meeting that brings together top swimmers from the United States, Canada, Australia, Japan and other non-European ...

Russian-Japanese relations have long been dogged by the contested islands, known in Japan as the Northern Territories and seized by the Soviet Union in 1945. The Kremlin posted a video of Putin on one of the Kurils' four main islands, with Russian ...

In a letter to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth Wednesday, Senator Richard Blumenthal called for the Navy to account for conditions aboard the aircraft carrier, which "has been deployed more than 250 days" without coming ashore "in over 200 days, sett...

Swiatek, seeded seventh, improved to 5-3 against Svitolina, who had narrowed their head-to-head record with two wins over the Polish star this year. In Thursday's final, Swiatek will play either American fourth seed Coco Gauff or Australian Open ch...

Proctor suffered the injury during New Zealand's opening tour match win over the Stormers in Cape Town last week and will return home. "We really feel for Billy. He has had a great season so this is frustrating for him," All Blacks coach Dave Renni...

At the close Bangladesh were 96-1, 102 runs behind Australia. Mominul Haque was on 35 with Tanzid Hasan alongside him on 32 as the visitors made a superb start to a Test match most people expected them to lose inside three days. Earlier, Hasan le...

The new Wallabies coach got off to a winning start last week in Osaka when Australia edged Eddie Jones's side 35-32, but the game was played in gruelling heat and humidity. With the conditions taking their toll, Kiss has opted to rest some of his k...

Polling stations open at 7:00 am (0600 GMT) with a total of 34 candidates in the running, forcing Farage to face off against dozens of fringe candidates, including Binface. Brexit backer Farage -- whose anti-immigration Reform UK won local election...

Japan went down 35-32 in Osaka and Jones has made five changes to the starting line-up for the second Test in Townsville, including bringing in university student Yoshitaka Yazaki on the wing and handing Shunsuke Uenobo his first start at centre. J...

A joint statement issued by the two sides highlighted agreement on two topics after several days of discussion: reforming the judiciary, and seeking access to frozen funds to aid in earthquake recovery efforts. Both sides committed to "initiate a p...

Shelton, who won the title in Toronto last year in the ATP Masters 1000 event that alternates between cities, will try to double up in Toronto when he takes on fellow American Brandon Nakashima in Thursday's title match. Nakashima held off Spanish ...

After the mass layoffs and budget cuts of the early days of President Donald Trump's second term, the administration is barreling ahead in its war on climate science, at a time when the world's oceans and land masses face record-breaking heat. In 2...

The tallest active volcano in Europe, Etna has been spewing ash and lava for days, forcing the closure of the nearby Catania airport, a key gateway for tourists visiting the island of Sicily. Companies that organise nighttime hikes allowing partici...