Australia's biggest spectator sport, Aussie rules football, will attempt to win fans in China this weekend when Port Adelaide Power and the Gold Coast Suns play a "historic" competitive game in...
A federal judge in California on Thursday said he would approve a $1.2 billion settlement between Volkswagen and the US authorities over the last 80,000 cars in the company's emissions-cheating...
Young people on the latest HIV drugs now have near-normal life expectancy because of improvements in treatments, a study in The Lancet suggests. Twenty-year-olds who started antiretroviral therapy in...
Young people on the latest HIV drugs now have near-normal life expectancy because of improvements in treatments, a study in The Lancet suggests. Twenty-year-olds who started antiretroviral therapy in...
With North America readying for a major solar eclipse, Ozzy Osbourne will celebrate the exact moment by singing "Bark at the Moon" as the sun disappears. Moonstock, a new metal festival in Illinois,...
The Fifa Council has ratified the decision to give Africa nine automatic places when the World Cup expands to 48 teams in 2026. The move was confirmed on Tuesday in Bahrain – the continent...
The Fifa Council has ratified the decision to give Africa nine automatic places when the World Cup expands to 48 teams in 2026. The move was confirmed on Tuesday in Bahrain - the continent currently...
Japanese car giant Toyota has seen profits fall for the first time in half a decade. The firm said it sold more cars in the year to March 2017 than in the previous 12 months but that higher costs and...
Africans in the Diaspora should leverage on their skills and experience to create wealth on the continent by contributing to the growth of intra-African trade and to Africa’s industrialization, Dr....
Alipay, the Chinese digital payment giant owned by ecommerce giant Alibaba, is expanding in the US. Customers will be able to use Alipay at about 4 million businesses after a deal was signed with...
Kenny Rogers prepares to hang up his microphone It's funny the things you covet most when you are a child - for country music superstar Kenny Rogers it was water sprinklers. Growing up in poverty on...
Lighthearted space romp "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2" had a massive opening weekend, according to industry estimates Sunday showing some $145 million in tickets sold to dominate box offices in the...
Facebook’s profits have jumped in the first three months of the year, as the social network closes in on two billion users, according to its latest results. The number of people using Facebook each...
Pop superstar and new mother Janet Jackson said on Monday she will resume a tour after a nearly two-year break as she confirmed separating from her husband. Jackson, who had abruptly suspended a tour...
ILO: Global unemployment expected to rise by 3.4m in 2017 The global unemployment rate is expected to rise modestly from 5.7 to 5.8 per cent in 2017 The global unemployment rate is expected to rise...
A Metallica cover band distraught after its equipment was stolen has been able to return to stage after a gift from surprise benefactors -- the metal legends themselves. Blistered Earth, a four-piece...
North Korea has test-fired a ballistic missile, South Korean and US military officials say. It apparently exploded seconds after lift-off, the South Korean military was quoted as saying by Yonhap...
ESPN, the giant of American sports television channels, has been losing subscribers by the millions while being clobbered by increasingly expensive broadcast rights. The company must reinvent itself...
There is no tap water, electricity or shops in Lusanga, a Congolese town once known as Leverville where the Dutch-British conglomerate Unilever long ran a profitable palm oil plantation. But the...
High-tech dating of mastodon remains found in southern California has shattered the timeline of human migration to America, pushing the presence of hominins back to 130,000 years ago rather than just...
