A British aircraft carrier has docked in Singapore on a rare Indo-Pacific deployment which will see it call on Australia, Japan, Korea and take part in several multinational exercises.
HMS Prince of Wales' visit comes weeks after two Chinese (...)
A Chinese naval drill near Japan has sparked concern from Tokyo, which in recent days lodged a protest with Beijing and made the rare decision to publicly disclose Chinese military movements.
In the last few weeks China's two aircraft carriers, the (...)
Singapore-based budget airline Jetstar Asia will close down at the end of July, with affected passengers to be offered full refunds.
The low-cost airline has struggled with rising supplier costs, high airport fees and increased competition in the (...)
The UK has sanctioned two far-right Israeli ministers over "repeated incitements of violence against Palestinian communities" in the occupied West Bank.
Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich will both be banned from entering the UK and will have any (...)
JEDDAH — Saudi Arabia's hopes of direct qualification to the 2026 FIFA World Cup came to an end on Tuesday night after a 2-1 home defeat to Australia at King Abdullah Sports City in Jeddah.
The result left the Green Falcons third in Group C with 13 (...)
ARAFAT — Several guests of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques' Program for Hajj, Umrah, and Visit expressed their heartfelt emotions as they stood on the plains of Arafat, saying the moment of chanting the Talbiyah and supplicating is among the (...)
YANBU — The first groups of pilgrims arrived on Friday at Prince Abdulmohsen bin Abdulaziz International Airport in Yanbu, coming from several countries, including Australia, Singapore, New Zealand, Bangladesh, Indonesia, and Sudan. This comes (...)
The Trump administration on Thursday revoked Harvard University's ability to enroll international students, delivering a sharp punishment to the elite institution for refusing to bow to the administration's policy demands.
"Harvard can no longer (...)
Australia's Liberal Party has for the first time chosen a woman as its leader, with Sussan Ley to take over from Peter Dutton after he led the party to a bruising election loss.
Ley, from the moderate faction of the party, beat Angus Taylor - who (...)
US President Donald Trump says he will hit movies made in foreign countries with 100% tariffs, as he ramps up trade disputes with nations around the world.
Trump said he was authorizing the US Trade Representative to start the process of imposing (...)
In Western Sydney, an audience of Stetson-wearing Australians are sitting in their fold-up camping chairs, swigging beers and eating a spiraled fried potato on a skewer known as a 'chip on a stick'.
People here are enjoying bull rides, barrel racing (...)
Beijing has warned its trading partners against succumbing to US pressure to isolate China in President Donald Trump's tariff war, as part of its carrot-and-stick approach to win over countries caught between the world's two largest (...)
A controversial bill seeking to reinterpret New Zealand's founding document, which established the rights of both Māori and non-Māori in the country, has been defeated at its second reading.
The Treaty Principles Bill was voted down 112 votes to 11, (...)
The death toll from the devastating earthquakes that struck Myanmar has climbed to 1,002, with over 2,300 people injured and 30 still missing, according to state media reports on Saturday.
Myanmar's state-run broadcaster MRTV reported the updated (...)
New Zealand athlete Sam Ruthe made history on Wednesday as he became the youngest person to run a sub-four-minute mile.
Ruthe, who turns 16 in mid-April, ran a time of 3:58.35 at Go Media Stadium in Auckland.
According to New Zealand Athletics, (...)
A former senior Facebook executive has told the BBC how the social media giant worked "hand in glove" with the Chinese government on potential ways of allowing Beijing to censor and control content in China.
Sarah Wynn-Williams — a former global (...)
New Zealand has fired its most senior envoy to the United Kingdom over his remarks that questioned US President Donald Trump's grasp of history.
High Commissioner to the UK Phil Goff's comments were "deeply disappointing" and made his position (...)
US prosecutors have charged 12 Chinese nationals for being part of an alleged hacking scheme, which sold data of US-based dissidents to the Chinese government.
The "state-sponsored" operation also targeted government agencies including the Treasury, (...)
The true story of a British couple who spent four months adrift on a life raft in the Pacific Ocean, after their boat was sunk by a whale, has been named the best book of last year at a prestigious ceremony.
Maurice and Maralyn: An Extraordinary (...)
The owners of a New Zealand volcano that erupted in 2019, killing 22 people, have had their conviction over the disaster thrown out by the country's High Court.
Whakaari Management Limited (WML) was found guilty in 2023 of failing to keep visitors (...)
MADINAH — A fourth batch of pilgrims hosted under the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques' Guests Program for Hajj, Umrah and Visit has arrived in Madinah.
The current batch of guest pilgrims includes 250 men and women from 14 countries from South (...)
Despite divisions between east and west, Europe's standards of functioning democracy remain high, even as global standards decline, according to a study released on Thursday by the London-based Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU).
The latest Democracy (...)
Candidates vying to replace Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as leader of the Liberal Party of Canada faced each other for the first time on Monday in a French-language debate.
The stage was shared by four hopefuls: former governor of the banks of (...)
RIYADH — Saudi Minister of Foreign Affairs Prince Faisal bin Farhan received met with New Zealand's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Winston Peters in Riyadh on Monday.
The ministers reviewed bilateral relations and explored (...)
New Zealand's commerce minister Andrew Bayly has resigned after he "placed a hand" on a staff member's upper arm last week, in what he described as "overbearing" behavior.
Bayly said on Monday that he was "deeply sorry" about the incident, which he (...)
