Britain unveiled a negotiating mandate on Thursday for talks with the European Union that puts it on a collision course with Brussels, saying it was ready to walk away if "good progress" was not made by June.
After leaving the EU last month, Britain (...)
It was in 2012 that I first heard of the Indian embassy's plans to launch a new festival. A big celebration was organised in the garden of India House, in the presence of then ambassador Navdeep Suri, his wife, and representatives of the new (...)
A sign on the door of a small villa in a quiet neighbourhood of Cairo carrying the words Dans le Noir leads customers to a totally different and mind-changing experience.
This is the name of an extraordinary restaurant where you dine in the dark, (...)
News of Roger Federer's knee surgery caught Novak Djokovic by surprise and the world number one said he hoped to see his Swiss rival back on court soon as the sport needs him.
Federer said he would miss a number of tournaments, including the French (...)
Champions Mercedes suspect Ferrari are considerably faster than the Italian team let on in Formula One's first pre-season test in Spain, with the gap between the top three and the rest closing.
Teams have six days of testing before the season-opener (...)
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The Chinese women's national team will play the home leg of their Olympic qualification playoff against South Korea in Sydney to avoid any travel complications from a coronavirus outbreak, the Asian Football Confederation said on Friday.
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Several cars on a passenger train derailed in southeastern Australia, killing two operators and injuring 12 other people, police said.
The train was heading from Sydney to Melbourne late Thursday when part of it came off the tracks in Victoria state (...)
As trade talks open between post-Brexit Britain and the European Union, Boris Johnson's government has ruled out sticking to EU rules, regulations and laws, emphasising to the 27-nation bloc that the UK is prepared to walk away if offered an unfair (...)
Israel's prime minister on Sunday hailed what he called efforts by friendly states to stop the International Criminal Court opening an investigation into alleged war crimes against Palestinians.
The court's chief prosecutor Fatou Bensouda said in (...)
The Human Rights Watch Film Festival (HRWFF) will return to London from 12 to 20 March, featuring empowering documentaries and dramas celebrating courageous people from 14 countries. Eleven of the 14 films selected for this 24th edition are directed (...)
The coach of the Chinese women's soccer team has praised the "strong hearts" of his players after they emerged undefeated from an Olympic qualifying tournament in Australia despite their preparations being thrown into chaos by the coronavirus.
The (...)
Stocks in major Asian markets, including China's stocks, dropped on Thursday as investors weighed a jump in the number of new coronavirus cases reported in the Chinese province of Hubei due to a tweak in methodology.
Mainland Chinese stocks reversed (...)
The Diamond Princess cruise ship off the coast of Japan has on Monday confirmed new 66 cases of the coronavirus, bringing the total number of infections to 136.
The new cases are from Japan (45), the U.S. (11), Australia (four), Philippines (three), (...)
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Here are the latest developments:
**The death toll in mainland China rose to 563 on Thursday, up by a record 70 from the previous day, the National Health Commission said.
**The total number of infections in China rose by 3,694 on Thursday to (...)
Chinese clubs have had their matches in the Asian Champions League postponed until April due to the coronavirus epidemic, the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) said after an emergency meeting on Tuesday.
Twice champions Guangzhou Evergrande along (...)
Investors worried about the spread of the coronavirus wiped more than $400 billion off the value of China's stocks in the first trading session on Monday after an extended Lunar New Year break while the death toll from the epidemic rose to (...)
Asia's indoor soccer championship in Turkmenistan was postponed Monday because of the coronavirus outbreak.
The Asian Football Confederation said its decision not to play the futsal tournament scheduled Feb. 26-March 8 was ``to ensure the safety and (...)
China Stocks plummeted more than 7% on Monday as they returned to trade following an extended holiday amid an ongoing coronavirus outbreak.
The Shanghai composite fell 7.72% to close at about 2,746.61 while the Shenzhen component dropped 8.45% to (...)
Britain will “not be aligning with EU rules” in any post-Brexit trade deal, the foreign secretary has said.
Dominic Raab argued agreeing to stick strongly with EU regulations would “defeat the point of Brexit”.
But Irish PM Leo Varadkar said the UK (...)
Dozens of homes were destroyed o vernight in Australia's southeast but the wildfire threat had diminished by Sunday across New South Wales state and around the national capital Canberra, officials said.
B ega Valley Mayor Kristy McBain said damage (...)
The Philippines on Sunday reported the first death outside China from a coronavirus epidemic that originated in central Hubei province and has since spread to some two dozen countries around the world.
Here are the latest developments:
* The virus (...)
The number of deaths from a coronavirus epidemic in China has risen by 46 to 259, the country's health authority said on Saturday, as the United States and other nations announced new border curbs on foreigners who have been in China.
The central (...)
China faced mounting isolation from international travel curbs and flight suspensions on Saturday, with Russia to start pulling out its citizens next week, as the death toll from a spreading coronavirus outbreak rose to 259.
The epidemic has led to (...)
