Paris: The 2024 Paralympics opened in Paris on Wednesday in a colourful and hope-filled ceremony, starting 11 days of competition in a city still riding the wave of the successful Olympics.

MANILA - The Philippines has started soliciting offers as it plans to procure 40 new multi-role fighter aircraft to boost its territorial defence, the defence minister said on Thursday.

KUALA LUMPUR - A second sinkhole appeared in the heart of Kuala Lumpur on Wednesday, just 50 metres away from where a woman was swallowed into the ground last week and remains missing.

SAN FRANCISCO - Elon Musk and Tesla Incorporated won dismissal of a lawsuit claiming they pumped up the price of the cryptocurrency Dogecoin into a US$258 billion "pyramid scheme."

Thai junior cyclists claimed two gold medals on the first day of the competition in the Track Asia Cup 2024 at the Suphan Buri Sports School on Wednesday.

PARIS: French president Emmanuel Macron declared the Paralympic Games open on Wednesday after a glorious ceremony in which competitors were celebrated by joyful volunteers and spectators on a sweet summer night.

Puripol Boonson has made history as the first Thai sprinter to win a medal at the World Athletics U20 Championships, capturing silver in the 100-metre final in Lima, Peru, on Thursday.

SEOUL - Yoon Hyeonjeong, a 19-year-old South Korean activist, says the fate of her years-long fight for more action to tackle climate change hinges on what could be a landmark ruling by the country’s top court on Thursday.

KUALA LUMPUR - Airlines in Malaysia will have to give passengers the option of a refund if their flight is delayed for five hours or more, as the Southeast Asian nation joins countries beefing up consumer air-travel rights.

TOKYO - At least three people were killed in southwestern Japan on Thursday as Typhoon Shanshan made landfall in Kagoshima prefecture, bringing heavy rain and very strong winds as well as snarling air traffic and knocking out power to over...