Women's British Open breaks new ground at Muirfield
In a week when England's European Championship football victory was hailed as a major breakthrough for female sport, Muirfield will make history by staging the Women's British Open golf championship.
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Focus on Samira, celebrity snapper of southern Iraq
She's southern Iraq's celebrity photographer, a former political prisoner who has spent more than 60 years behind the lens documenting people and places and defying convention.
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Hong Kong mahjong carver among the last of his kind
Eyebrows furrowed in careful concentration as he chisels images and Chinese characters onto mahjong tiles, 70-year-old Cheung Shun-king is one of the last craftsmen of his kind in Hong Kong.
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Beirut blast victim's parents wage lonely battle for justice
Paul and Tracy Naggear have lived in grief since the massive explosion that tore through the Lebanese capital in 2020 killed their three-year-old daughter, and their anger boils over the stalled investigation.
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Wounded All Blacks desperate to hit back against Springboks
The All Blacks will be desperate to bounce back and prove their critics wrong when they go behind enemy lines to face world champions South Africa on Saturday.
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'We come in friendship to Taiwan, peace to the region': Pelosi
US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Wednesday that her delegation had come to Taiwan in "peace for the region", after the visit enraged Beijing and set off a diplomatic firestorm.
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Apple TV+ counts its 'Luck' as fallen 'Toy Story' exec makes comeback
Like all good animated family movies, "Luck" has a thoroughly optimistic premise: that no matter how hopeless or dire your circumstances may seem, something good will eventually come of it.
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Colombian deforestation policy 'failure' a headache for new government
Colombian President Ivan Duque's environmental policies "failed" according to experts who dispute the outgoing right-wing government's claims to have reduced deforestation.
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In Haiti, children who fled gang wars face uncertain future
Skipping ropes, dominoes and some light manual work: this is how the 300-plus Haitian children at the Saint-Louis de Gonzague school -- transformed into a shelter -- try to forget, at least for a while, the gang violence that forced them to flee their homes.
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OPEC+ meeting to test Biden's Saudi oil entreaty
The OPEC+ group of major oil exporters meets Wednesday to discuss its output strategy after US President Joe Biden lobbied Saudi Arabia to boost production to tame energy-fuelled inflation.
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