Lani Pallister won four gold medals and booked her spot at the world short course championships in Sydney this week, but that didn't stop her from flying to Queensland to win the Bluff to Bar ocean race.
A former Miami congressman and longtime friend of US Secretary of State Marco Rubio was sentenced Friday to 10 years in prison in connection with a secret $50 million lobbying campaign on Venezuela’s behalf during the first Trump administration.
Ten people have been injured — two of them critically — by a car that ploughed into a crowd gathered for the Newcastle Knights grand final procession. Here's what we know.
South Korea's teenage sailor Choi Ji-un won the gold medal in the boys' dinghy event in sailing at the 2026 Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games on Saturday, becoming the youngest gold medalist in the country's delegation. Choi finished first in the event's final at Kaiyoh Yacht Harbor in Gamagori, some 50 kilometers southeast …
Pyongyang fires towards sea a day after Kim Jong-un sister denounces South Korea for claiming North’s mines wounded South’s soldiers in DMZNorth Korea fired a ballistic missile towards the sea on Saturday, South Korea and Japan said, a day after it rejected Seoul’s accusation of its mines wounding soldiers.The mis…
South Korea missed the podium in both the individual and team events in women's golf at the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games on Saturday. Yang Yun-seo was the top performing South Korean, as she finished alone in fourth place at seven-under 273, seven strokes behind the bronze medalist, Shannon Xuan Yin Tan of Singapore, at…
Gaza aid delay causes chronic shortage of medical supplies, WHO says Getting humanitarian aid through Israel into Gaza is layered with "delay after delay", the World Health Organisation said Friday, as it decried "chronic shortages" of medical supplies. Reinhilde Van de Weerdt, the WHO's representative in the Palest…
Exclusive: Findings will bolster those in No 10 who want to negotiate on re-entry but some senior figures remain waryAndy Burnham’s personal preference to rejoin the European Union after the next election is supported by almost half of all voters, a new megapoll has found, although cabinet ministers concerned about …
On the day Andy Burnham spoke of the wrong turn Britain took under Thatcher, football was facing a day of reckoning over its own story of corporate acquisitionIt was somehow fitting that Tuesday’s damning ruling against Manchester City landed in the heart of the Labour party conference, in the afterglow of Andy Burn…
When the new ‘department of government efficiency’ sent young techies to disrupt federal agencies, not everyone complied. Here’s what happened when one worker fought to protect immigrant dataIn the early hours of Saturday 22 February 2025 the following email landed in the inboxes of the entire US federal workforce:F…
From Misery to Yellowface, books and films about writers are favourites among the authors who pen them, but audiences love them too. Enter Verity, the latest film adapted from a Colleen Hoover novel.
America’s fight over data centers is going global. Communities across Europe and Asia are pushing back over the rising costs of the AI infrastructure boom.
The Flydubai co-pilot who officials said nearly crashed a Tel Aviv-bound flight with 182 people aboard was barred from flying by his native Oman over concerns he had adopted extremist views, a person familiar with the matter said on Saturday. The co-pilot has been identified as Hamam al-Hammami, according to three p…
'Cornell has failed our community through its lack of accountability, transparency, and failure to address the state of the Cornell student body at this time,' says a student from the university
The singer wore a "Free Palestine" shirt during his concert at Robert Kraft's Gillette Stadium Friday night — one month after the Jewish NFL owner barred Macklemore over his...
MANILA, Philippines — Caloocan City District 2 Rep. Edgar Erice urged his colleagues to enact a genuine anti-political dynasty law, saying they must comply with the Constitution and heed the Supreme Court's finding that their 39-year failure to do so constituted grave abuse of discretion.
Israeli settlers steal goal post from Palestinian children's field Israeli settlers stole a goal post from a Palestinian children's football field in Umm al-Kheir, West Bank, according to Andrey Ilyich Khrzhanovskiy, known online as Andrey X, a Russian-Israeli journalist and activist campaigning against Israeli sett…
MANILA, Philippines — The Aviation Security Group (Avsegroup) arrested a robbery-holdup suspect at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) Terminal 3 on Oct. 2, 2026, police reported on Saturday.
Prime Minister Han Seong-sook on Saturday underscored the power of culture in addressing the common challenges facing humanity, while pledging to build a society where the benefits of artificial intelligence are spread evenly. "With the great power of culture, we should broaden the scope of empathy and solidarity an…
A man accused of murdering ex-UK minister Ann Widdecombe has also been charged with preparing a terrorist attack on Nigel Farage Read Full Article at RT.com
The presidential National Security Office has held an emergency meeting to discuss North Korea's firing of a ballistic missile, Cheong Wa Dae said Saturday. The NSO said the North's firing of a ballistic missile is in violation of U.N. Security Council resolutions and urged Pyongyang to immediately stop such provoca…
Movie about Nazi-collaborating administration strikes chord during what director calls ‘time of great uncertainty’It is the story of how a lowly state administrator unthinkingly becomes a cog in the machine of an authoritarian regime, embracing the bureaucracy and logistics of sending people to their deaths – and it…
For the first time in a decade, China has returned to the top 100 out of 145 economies in an annual global report assessing gender equality. China closed 69.9 per cent of its gender gap in 2025, rising to 96th place from 103rd the previous year and increasing 1.3 percentage points, according to the 2026 Global Gende…
Hong Kong authorities plan to relax restrictions on indirect advertising for broadcasters amid fierce competition from online and streaming media, the commerce minister has told the South China Morning Post. In a wide-ranging exclusive interview, Secretary for Commerce and Economic Development Algernon Yau Ying-wah …
Diego Rodriguez-Ordonez, of Brewster, New York, faces multiple charges after he allegedly robbed a Kent convenience store and assaulted a clerk trying to stop him early Wednesday – only to be released from custody and arrested again later that evening for allegedly forcibly touching a woman on a Metro-North train.
The execution drug, pentobarbital, is a caustic, highly alkaline chemical that burns human flesh, tissue and veins on contact, akin to household chemicals like "bleach" or "Drano," Pike’s experts say.