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US fears rapid escalation in Mideast after Houthis attack Riyadh

Hong Kong pays final respects to former city leader Tung

Japan triathlete Hojo wins first gold of Asian Games

Typhoon put people off Asian Games opening ceremony, official says

IOC president impressed by 'beautiful' Asian Games wooden huts

China's 13-year-old Yu cruises as Asian Games swimming begins

First Asian Games gold goes to Japan as China's 13-year-old Yu lights up pool

AI 'warning shots' focus Beijing on national security risks

Data centre command hub keeps AI up and running

Philippine tribe in limbo over US-led tech hub

Pope Leo in France: the issues on the table

Leo XIV, first US pope transcends his restrained style

Packing for a pope: behind the scenes on foreign trips

Singer Ed Sheeran says Gaza situation 'unjustifiable' following controversy

Silence falls on Karabakh after refugee exodus

Silence has returned to the mountain road down which most of the population of Nagorno-Karabakh fled after the self-proclaimed republic surrendered to Azerbaijani troops.

VAR officials behind Liverpool error were in UAE 48 hours earlier: report

A review into English-based match officials being paid for one-off appearances in other domestic leagues could take place after a controversial VAR error denied Liverpool a goal in a 2-1 defeat by Tottenham.

Green groups target TotalEnergies over Tanzania, Uganda projects

Four environmental groups have taken legal action against French giant TotalEnergies on claims of "climaticide" over a controversial oil project in Tanzania and Uganda, their lawyers said Monday.

Better be a Bok than Irish, says Erasmus of quarter-final scenario

Springbok director of rugby Rassie Erasmus admitted Monday the baffling permutations around which two teams from Pool B will qualify for the World Cup quarter-finals were keeping him awake.

India gun for kabaddi revenge against Iran at Asian Games

India had been the only country ever to win kabaddi gold at the Asian Games until Iran shocked them five years ago.

Lawmakers grill Dutch ex-FM over EU climate post bid

European lawmakers will on Monday grill former Dutch foreign minister Wopke Hoekstra on his bid for a top European Union climate post, in the face of criticism from green activists over his past ties to the oil industry.

Unbeaten Wales rest Morgan for final pool game against Georgia

Flanker Jac Morgan is rested as Warren Gatland named his Wales XV to play Georgia in their final World Cup Pool C match in Nantes on Saturday.

Equities retreat with US rates back in focus

Asian and European stock markets mostly fell Monday and the dollar rose as relief over a last-minute deal to avoid a US government shutdown gave way to renewed concerns over high interest rates.

Nobel prize goes to mRNA Covid vaccine researchers

Katalin Kariko and Drew Weissman won the Nobel Medicine Prize on Monday for work on messenger RNA (mRNA) technology that paved the way for groundbreaking Covid-19 vaccines.

Katalin Kariko, scientific maverick who paved way for mRNA vaccines

Hungarian-born scientist Katalin Kariko's obsession with researching a substance called mRNA to fight disease once cost her a faculty position at a prestigious US university, which dismissed the idea as a dead end.

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