Arnold ready to 'lock horns' with fellow Wallaby Skelton in Top 14 play-offs
Toulouse's Australia second-row Rory Arnold said he is looking forward to hosting a fellow Wallaby Test lock in La Rochelle's Will Skelton when they meet in the French Top 14's play-offs on Saturday.
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Dramatic footage of Hong Kong machete gang attack emerges
Dramatic footage of an attack by a group of machete-wielding assailants in one of Hong Kong's busiest nightlife districts emerged Friday, as local media reported a clash that left one man with a gunshot wound and two others injured.
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Turkish hilltop where civilisation began
On a sun-blasted hillside in southeast Turkey, the world's oldest known religious sanctuary is slowly giving up its secrets.
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Spain seaside staff shortages spell trouble for tourism
In normal times, Pablo Gonzalez would never have considered closing his restaurant at the height of summer. But this year, he's been forced to do just that for one day a week for lack of staff.
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'No choice': The young UK climate activist pushing protest boundaries
At the age of just 21, former engineering student Louis McKechnie has already been arrested 20 times and spent six weeks in prison.
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Ex-janitor accused of serial rapes goes on trial in France
A former janitor accused of dozens of rapes and sexual assaults in France and Belgium over several decades will go on trial in France on Friday, after admitting to a spate of assaults.
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Open season: Italy to allow public tenders to manage beaches
Italy has some spectacular beaches but the majority are private, run in an opaque and sometimes shady manner that the government has finally decided to bring into the light.
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Old tricks, new crises: how US misinformation spreads
With gun control under debate and monkeypox in the headlines, Americans are facing a barrage of new twists on years-old misinformation in their social media feeds.
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Asteroid samples contain 'clues to origin of life': Japan scientists
Asteroid dust collected by a Japanese space probe contains organic material that shows some of the building blocks of life on Earth may have been formed in space, scientists said Friday.
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China trailblazer Zhang Weili headlines UFC return to Asia
Chinese history-maker Zhang Weili and two world title fights headline the return of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) to Asia on Sunday after a break of more than two years because of Covid.
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