'Outstanding' Love to start at fly-half for All Blacks against France
Ruben Love was given the nod on Thursday to start at fly-half against France as new All Blacks coach Dave Rennie named his first New Zealand side for the Nations Championship opener in Christchurch.
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Deadly Russian barrage on Kyiv kills at least 13
Russian missile and drone strikes tore open apartment buildings in Kyiv early Thursday, killing at least 13 people and wounding dozens, hours after President Volodymyr Zelensky warned that Moscow was preparing a "massive attack".
Read moreCampbell back from four years in Wallabies wilderness to face Ireland
Australia coach Joe Schmidt Thursday praised Jock Campbell's resilience after he was recalled from four years in the Test wilderness while backing a fresh halves combination for their season-opener against Ireland.
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Next indirect US-Iran talks after Khamenei funeral: mediators
The next indirect US-Iran talks will come after the late Iranian supreme leader's funeral, mediators said Thursday, as diplomacy inches ahead on ending the Middle East war.
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Migrants pick up pieces back home after fleeing South Africa
Back in his village in rural Malawi, Ahamadi Assani recalled his terror during an attack by anti-foreigner vigilantes in South Africa that led him to flee the country with just a few bags.
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Reviving Montenegro's 'ancient' olive tree
At the edge of rugged Montenegrin foothills, a years-long effort to save one of the country's oldest olive trees, which locals say dates back millennia, is finally bearing fruit -- literally.
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Farrell names Leinster-heavy Ireland side to face Wallabies
Ireland coach Andy Farrell rewarded Sam Prendergast for his stellar club form by picking him as playmaker for their Nations Championship opener against Australia in a starting XV dominated by Leinster players.
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Resource rich PNG leaving its Pacific people behind: World Bank
Gold and gas-driven economic growth in Papua New Guinea, the South Pacific's largest nation, is leaving its people behind, the World Bank said on Thursday.
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Fearing Russian strike, Kyiv's Holodomor museum evacuates exhibits
In a dark hall of Kyiv's Holodomor museum, four men were carefully lifting the protective glass cases off robes, icons, books and metal agricultural tools.
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Papal envoy presides over first Vietnam beatification rite
Tens of thousands of Catholics flocked to a small parish in the Mekong Delta on Thursday for the first beatification ceremony held on Vietnamese soil.
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