April2018

Japanese anime film director and writer Isao Takahata, co-founder of Japan’s Studio Ghibli, has died, the studio said on Friday. He was 82. Takahata was most famous for “The Grave of the Fireflies”, an award-winning 1988...

Supporters of former South African president Jacob Zuma plan to march to the Durban High Court on Friday, where Zuma will face corruption charges related to a decades-old arms deal. Zuma plans to legally challenge a...

The leaders of Afghanistan and Pakistan promised to work together on regional security in a face-to-face meeting on Friday, one day after Kabul accused the Pakistani military of carrying out a rare air strike on its...

Formula One’s commercial rights holders have laid out plans for an overhaul of the sport from 2021 with cheaper and simpler power units, the implementation of a cost cap and a more balanced distribution of revenues....

Disgraced US megastar comedian Bill Cosby goes back on trial next week for alleged sexual assault dating back 14 years in a legal fight made tougher the second time round with more witnesses in a #MeToo...

Oceania Football Confederation president David Chung of Papua New Guinea announced his immediate resignation Friday for “personal reasons”. Chung’s term still had 10 months to run and a brief statement from OFC provided no further details...

Prince Charles has called for a “blue economy” to promote the sustainable use of ocean resources and save Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, as he visits the World Heritage-listed ecosystem Friday. The 2,300-kilometre (1,429-mile) long biodiverse site...

Sergei Skripal is “responding well to treatment, improving rapidly and is no longer in a critical condition”, according to doctors. The former Russian spy and his daughter Yulia were left fighting for their lives after being...

Israeli fire killed a Palestinian at the Gaza border on Thursday and another died of wounds suffered several days ago, health officials said, bringing the number of Palestinian dead in a week of frontier protests and...

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s government faced criticism on Thursday, after his defense minister said the army last year found activity logs from a controversial 2004 to 2006 deployment to Iraq, but had failed to report...