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Tokyo led most markets higher Tuesday as a weaker yen boosted exporters and helped traders recover some of their hefty losses in the previous day's rout.

British rock band Coldplay's upcoming tour of India has triggered a police investigation and dismayed fans after scalpers bought up cheap tickets to resell online for more than $1,000 apiece.

Two decades ago, Miguel Angel Garcia harvested grapes and grains on his farm in central Spain, like his father and grandfather before him.

Many amateur French sports clubs are struggling to cope with a wave of enquiries and a boom in wannabee players sparked by the Paris Olympics.

Shigeru Ishiba became Japanese prime minister on Tuesday, seeking to restore the ruling party's popularity and tackle a demographic crisis, a lacklustre economy and fears over China's military build-up.

Tokyo led most Asian markets higher Tuesday as a weaker yen boosted exporters and helped traders recover some of their hefty losses in the previous day's rout.

The 595th-ranked Zhang Shuai added another chapter to her renaissance as she rolled into the quarter-finals of her home China Open on Tuesday to make more history.

An Indian environmental activist was detained by police outside New Delhi at the end of a month-long climate protest march on foot from the Himalayas, his colleague said Tuesday.

A new Henri Matisse retrospective in Switzerland offers visitors a rare chance to follow his artistic journey via works from throughout the career of one of modern art's godfathers.

Each man gobbled up 44 pork rolls in 10 minutes, but it was the last bite that earned one of them the $2,000 top prize in the very American pastime of competitive eating.

Every year in India's megacity Kolkata, the world's oldest trade gets fleeting respect from an ancient custom -- when soil outside brothels is considered sacred and collected for Hindu rituals.

Raid your granny's wardrobe. Bloomers are back. The surprising resurrection of Victorian underwear as outerwear is one of the big trends of Paris Fashion Week, along with the proliferation of the girl-power business suit.

Teacher Zarko Blazevski spends nearly an hour crossing empty mountain passes to reach his remote school with only three students in North Macedonia.

As the evening light falls on her vineyards in northwestern Turkey, Zeynep Arca Salliel pinches the grapes and tastes the skin. It is harvest time.

Dockworkers at major ports along the US East and Gulf Coasts began walking off the job early Tuesday after last-minute negotiations yielded no new labor contract, a stoppage expected to drag on the world's largest economy just ahead of the November presidential election.

Taiwan closed schools and evacuated thousands of people in the south of the island Tuesday ahead of the arrival of Super Typhoon Krathon as the president warned it was likely cause "catastrophic damage".

Indian-administered Kashmir was voting Tuesday in the third and final round of polls to elect its first government since the insurgency-wracked territory was brought under New Delhi's direct control.

The death toll from a devastating storm that battered the southeastern United States climbed to at least 130 on Monday, as the disaster became a hot topic in an already bitter election campaign, with the White House angrily refuting claims it had been slow to respond.

Nelson Amenya caused an uproar by exposing secret talks for an Indian firm to take over Kenya's main airport. He has no regrets, but fears his life is now in danger, he says.

The Detroit Lions sent the Seattle Seahawks spinning to their first defeat of the NFL season on Monday with an emphatic 42-29 victory in the Motor City.

Women's football in Asia can close the gap on Europe and North America with this week's launch of the AFC Women's Champions League, say players from top Japanese side Urawa Reds Ladies.

Real Madrid forward Vinicius Junior is hoping to end October with a first Ballon d'Or in his hands in Paris, but his month also begins in France with a Champions League visit to Lille on Wednesday.

Bologna face their biggest match in 60 years on Wednesday when they take on Liverpool at Anfield, the sort of glamour fixture fans were dreaming of when the Serie A team surprised everyone by reaching the Champions League.

Tokyo stocks rose Tuesday, recovering some of the losses suffered in the previous day's rout, as the yen weakened against the dollar, while most other Asian markets started the day on a positive note following another record on Wall Street.

A laid-back people person known for holding firm when things get tough, Dutchman Mark Rutte will need all those skills to lead NATO through one of its most challenging times.

Former Dutch prime minister Mark Rutte takes over as NATO's secretary general on Tuesday as the Western military alliance reaches a critical juncture weeks from a momentous US election.

Australia are hot favourites for their seventh title at the women's T20 World Cup starting Thursday in their first tournament appearance since the retirement of four-time tournament-winning captain Meg Lanning.

Unai Emery has warned Aston Villa that fatigue will be no excuse as his side aim to emulate the most memorable night in the club's history against Bayern Munich on Wednesday.

A former doctor goes on trial on Tuesday accused of genocide in Rwanda, three decades after the massacre of the African country's Tutsi population by the Hutu majority.

Shigeru Ishiba was set Tuesday to become Japanese prime minister, seeking to restore the ruling party's popularity and tackle a demographic crisis, a lacklustre economy and fears over China's military build-up.

Almost four months after her landslide election victory, Claudia Sheinbaum will be sworn in Tuesday as Mexican president, taking over as the Latin American nation's first woman leader at a time when it is wracked by criminal violence.

Argentine biochemist Alejandro Nadra worries that President Javier Milei's budget cuts will undo his scientific quest to unravel the cause of genetic diseases that disable and kill millions.