JAKARTA, Dec 6 — A powerful earthquake rocked Indonesia's western province of East Java on Tuesday, but did not cause damages or casualties, the meteorology, climatology and geophysics agency reported.

ISTANBUL, Dec 6 — Saudi Arabia is the only bidder to host the 2027 Asian Cup after India withdrew from the race, the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) confirmed on Monday.

BANGKOK, Dec 6 — Denmark’s Viktor Axelsen and Japan’s  Akane Yamaguchi were named male and female player of the year respectively by the Badminton World Federation (BWF) here last night.

AL WAKRAH, Qatar, Dec 6— Goalkeeper Dominik Livakovic saved three spot-kicks as Croatia beat Japan 3-1 in a penalty shootout to reach the World Cup quarter-finals for the third time after an enthralling 120-minute contest finished deadlocked at 1-1 on Monday.

ISTANBUL, Dec 5 — Google and Meta may soon be paying money to New Zealand for news content as the country is mulling a new law in this regard, Anadolu Agency (AA) reported.

MOSCOW, Dec 5 — The Oxford English Dictionary has chosen the slang term "goblin mode" as the word of the year, using a public vote for the first time in its history, the dictionary publisher Oxford Languages said.

WASHINGTON, Dec 5 — Bob McGrath, who starred on the children's television programme Sesame Street for decades, has died at the age of 90, his family announced Sunday.

DOHA — Kylian Mbappe was in another league yet again, oozing class throughout, while the ever-reliable Olivier Giroud netted a record goal to send defending champions France into the World Cup quarter-finals with a 3-1 victory over Poland on Sunday.

ANKARA, Dec 5 — England beat Senegal 3-0 Sunday in a Round of 16 match to set up a 2022 World Cup quarterfinal clash with France, Anadolu Agency (AA) reported.

JAKARTA, Dec 4 — Mount Semeru volcano in Lumajang, East Java erupted on Sunday with the hot ash plume rising up to 1,500 metres, Indonesia’s volcanology agency said.

BEIJING, Dec 4 — Electric carmaker Tesla will recall 435,132 vehicles in China as a software glitch may cause tail lights to fail to illuminate, Xinhua news agency quoted China's top quality watchdog.

ANKARA, Dec 4 — Argentina beat Australia 2-1 on Saturday and will take on the Netherlands in the World Cup quarterfinals, Anadolu Agency (AA) reported.

ANKARA, Dec 4 — The Netherlands defeated the US 3-1 on Saturday to become the first team through to the FIFA World Cup quarterfinals, Anadolu Agency (AA) reported.

DOHA, Dec 3 — Qatar is determined to bring the 2036 Summer Olympic Games to Doha, according to a source familiar with the Olympic bidding process.

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec 3 — Elon Musk's Twitter is leaning heavily on automation to moderate content, doing away with certain manual reviews and favouring restrictions on distribution rather than removing certain speech outright, its new head of trust and safety told Reuters.

WASHINGTON, Dec 2 — There is a cost of living crisis in major cities across the world, and none is more affected than New York City, which is now tied with Singapore as the most expensive city in which to live.

WASHINGTON, Dec 2 — United States President Joe Biden and French President Emmanuel Macron strongly condemned North Korea's recent ballistic missile tests on Thursday, calling them a threat to regional peace and stability.

SEOUL, Dec 2 — The head of the Seoul police was summoned for questioning Friday as part of an investigation into the bungled response to the deadly crowd crush in Seoul's Itaewon neighbourhood.

KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 1 — Air travel continued its recovery momentum in October 2022 with total traffic for the period, as measured in revenue passenger kilometres (RPK), rising 44.6 per cent compared to October 2021.

BANGKOK, Dec 1 — The Asian and the Pacific region accounts for over 55 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions, an increase of about 20 per cent between 2010 and 2022.