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Olivier Giroud became France's joint all-time top scorer when his double helped the holders start the defence of their World Cup title with a 4-1 win over Australia.

Saudi Arabia notched one of the biggest shocks in World Cup history with a 2-1 win over Lionel Messi's Argentina.

Analysis - Is the deal at COP27 the biggest win on climate since the Paris Agreement in 2015 - or the biggest loss, asks Matt McGrath.

Tech experts have concerns about the stability and security of Twitter after it shed many of its core engineers.

The FIFA World Cup in Qatar was already controversial before this weekend’s kick-off. Organisers have told the media to ‘focus on the football’ but human rights, workers’ suffering and and allegations…

Max Verstappen has hailed the contribution of New Zealand driver Liam Lawson after putting Red Bull at the top of the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix time sheets.

Germany's Nico Hulkenberg will make a full-time Formula One comeback at Haas next season after the U.S.-owned team dropped Mick Schumacher.

A petition calling on the government to stop its farm-level emissions pricing scheme has been delivered to Parliament. But a minister who received it says its aims are at odds with the sectors own…

The 22nd edition of the FIFA World Cup will begin in Qatar next week with the host nation taking on Ecuador.

Argentina's Lionel Messi picks out Brazil, France and England as the biggest threats to his dream of finally adding a World Cup winners' medal to his bulging trophy cabinet.

Leaders of the Group of 20 (G20) major economies open talks tomorrow on the island of Bali, after a final pitch by host Indonesia for the bloc to focus on action to help a global economic recovery…

Opinion - New Zealand's independent foreign policy is back. That's a key underlying message from Ardern's trip to Southeast Asia, Geoffrey Miller writes.

Britain's George Russell took his first Formula One Grand Prix victory on Monday in a one-two finish with Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton in Brazil.

New Zealand mixed martial artist Israel Adesanya has lost his UFC middleweight world title.

New Zealand bucked the global trend for carbon emissions to rebound to pre-Covid levels, but the reason is not exactly cause for celebration.

England are being tipped to win the football World Cup in Qatar by Lloyd's of London based on a prediction model using players' collective insurable value.

PNG rugby league team aims to bounce back; Fiji beat PNG in opening match; and study reveals funding disparity in rugby

Lewis Hamilton would love to celebrate his honorary Brazilian citizenship with a winning return this weekend to Sao Paulo's Interlagos, the circuit where last year he enjoyed one of his greatest…

Vanuatu national football team captain Brian Kaltak is a star of a new documentary alongside the skippers of Brazil and Croatia.

Orchids to make World Cup semis debut, Pukpuks edge Solomons in Oceania final; and a round up of 7s and 15s weekend action

Germany forward Timo Werner has been ruled out of the World Cup in Qatar due to an ankle injury, a week before the national squad was due to be announced.

Winger Dallin Watene-Zelezniak returns in the only change to the New Zealand Kiwis' 19-man squad for their Rugby League World Cup quarter-final against Fiji in Hull on Sunday morning.