UN environment chief Erik Solheim resigned on Tuesday after an audit questioning his huge travel expenses triggered an outcry, UN officials said.The former environment minister of Norway had been at the helm of the Nairobi-based UN Environment Programme (UNEP)

At least 50 people were killed in a suicide attack on a religious celebration in Kabul on Tuesday, officials said, in one of the deadliest assaults to strike Afghanistan this year.It follows a wave of bloody violence across the war-torn country in recent weeks

Australian Valentine Holmes has walked out on a lucrative rugby league contract in a bid to make the grade in American football, following in the ill-fated footsteps of Jarryd Hayne.The Cronulla Sharks star was on the verge of becoming the team's highest-paid

Award-winning Bangladeshi photographer and activist Shahidul Alam was released from prison Tuesday after more than 100 days behind bars, in a closely watched freedom of speech case.The 63-year-old Alam was arrested on August 5 for making "false" and "provoc

Washington on Tuesday said Beijing continued to foster the theft of American technological know-how, with officials there exacerbating matters in recent months.The renewed accusations from President Donald Trump's administration come as markets grow pessimist

World Series champion pitcher David Price of the Boston Red Sox was named one of Major League Baseball's Comeback Players of the Year on Tuesday after playing only 16 games in 2017.The 33-year-old US left-hander won the American League Comeback Player award w

Late substitute Matteo Politano scored an injury-time winner to lift a new-look Italy to a 1-0 win over the United States in an international friendly in Genk on Tuesday.Roberto Mancini's side had looked set for another goalless draw after crashing out of the

President Donald Trump wanted prosecutions opened against his 2016 election opponent Hillary Clinton and ex-FBI director James Comey, according to a report in The New York Times on Tuesday.The report, quoting unnamed sources, said that Trump's wish earlier th

Australia has officially rejected a bid of more than US$9 billion from Hong Kong giant CK Group for the country's biggest gas pipeline company, saying it would be against its "national interest".The decision by Treasurer Josh Frydenberg is the latest in a s

Bosnia swore-in its three new presidents on Tuesday, with all eyes on Serb nationalist Milorad Dodik, who will be the first to take the helm of a government riven by ethnic divides.The three men will rotate seats every eight months under the complex peace deal

Marcello Lippi refused to blame his players after China were held to a stale 1-1 home draw by 99th-ranked Palestine on Tuesday in their last warm-up game before the Asian Cup.With less than 50 days until the regional showpiece in the UAE, China's failure to d