WHO chief Tedros walking tightrope on Tigray
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the World Health Organization's leader, is in the rare position of heading a UN agency's response to a humanitarian crisis in which his own family's survival is at stake.
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Australian sentenced to 129 years in Philippine child sex abuse case
An Australian man has been sentenced to 129 years in a Philippine jail as part of a child sexual abuse case involving victims as young as 18 months, a prosecutor said Wednesday.
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Little respite for Ukrainian artillery fighters near Bakhmut
From the woods at the edge of Bakhmut, a besieged Ukrainian city in the Donbas region, a soldier shouts: "Postril!"
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US livid as basketball star Griner said moved to Russia penal colony
Russia is moving detained US basketball star Brittney Griner to a penal colony, her lawyers said Wednesday, drawing a sharp rebuke from the White House.
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Moldova facing dark winter as energy crisis bites
A silence hangs over Ion Ignat's normally noisy factory in Chetrosu, Moldova, with his 50 workers fretting about their future.
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Australian sentenced to 129 years in Philippine child sex abuse case: prosecutor
An Australian man has been sentenced to 129 years in a Philippine jail as part of a child sexual abuse case involving victims as young as 18 months, a prosecutor said Wednesday.
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Republican 'red wave' hopes fizzle in US midterm vote
President Joe Biden's agenda hung in the balance early Wednesday as a predicted Republican wave failed to materialize in congressional elections fought against a backdrop of stubbornly high inflation and fears for US democracy.
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Turbulence ahead: Airline on the block in Sri Lanka reforms
Dozens of state-owned Sri Lankan companies employing tens of thousands of people could be restructured or closed as part of an IMF bailout of the bankrupt country, with the country's airline top of the list for reform.
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England to give Malan, Wood maximum time to make World Cup semi
England will make last-minute calls on the fitness of Dawid Malan and Mark Wood as they look to spoil the party in Thursday's Twenty20 World Cup semi-final against India, Jos Buttler said.
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Climbers at odds over far-right dogwhistle route names
Just outside Vienna, climbers scramble up "Fortress Europe", one of the routes up an impressive rockface towering over fields and forests.
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