Beauden, Scott and Jordie Barrett are the first sibling trio to play together for the All Blacks, but fraternal rivalry has been shelved in Japan as they help New Zealand go for a third successive World Cup. That rivalry, Beauden explained, would no doubt rear its ugly head […]
South Africa have suffered a major setback ahead of Sunday’s World Cup semi-final against Wales with dangerman Cheslin Kolbe ruled out through injury, forcing the Springboks to replace him on the wing with S’Bu Nkosi. Kolbe hobbled off after twisting an ankle in the 49-3 pool win against […]
Japan’s Rugby Football Union will seek to keep Jamie Joseph as coach after he took the Brave Blossoms to a historic World Cup quarter-final at home, its president said Thursday. “The selection committee has decided to ask him to serve as the head coach in light of results […]
Hong Kong might be heading for recession after months of violent protests but that hasn’t stopped one businessman from forking out almost $1 million for a parking spot. The mind-boggling sum paid by Johnny Cheung Shun-yee highlights the gaping inequality that has helped fuel nearly five months of […]
Furious about being left out of the Donald Trump impeachment process, US congressional Republicans stormed a closed-door witness deposition and refused to leave for several hours in an escalation of the showdown over the investigation of the president. More than two dozen lawmakers barged into a secure US […]
The men jumped Stanley Ho without warning, smashing both his hands with metal rods — one of multiple recent attacks against prominent Hong Kong pro-democracy figures that activists have dubbed a “white terror”. Since late August, eight well-known pro-democracy figures have been beaten by unknown assailants as fear […]
Ex-Nissan chief Carlos Ghosn on Thursday called for the case against him to be dismissed, saying the charges were politically motivated and accusing Japanese prosecutors of a “pervasive pattern of illegal misconduct”. The claims, made in two filings to the Tokyo District Court, allege prosecutors colluded with Nissan […]
Sixteen people were sentenced to death Thursday for burning alive a Bangladeshi teenager who refused to withdraw sexual assault charges against her head teacher. The case highlights what activists say is a culture of impunity over sexual violence in the South Asian country of 168 million people, as […]
Leonardo da Vinci is the star in a blockbuster retrospective opening Thursday at the Louvre museum in Paris to mark 500 years since the death of the Renaissance master. Some 240,000 people have already reserved their place in line for the exhibition, the biggest ever organised to showcase […]
Spain was on Thursday poised to exhume the embalmed body of Francisco Franco from a grandiose state mausoleum and relocate it to a more discreet grave in a country still conflicted over the dictator’s decades-long regime. Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has made moving the remains of “El Caudillo” […]
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