China is willing to play a positive role to help the Palestinians achieve internal reconciliation and promote peace talks with Israel, Chinese President Xi Jinping told his Palestinian counterpart in Beijing on Wednesday.

Former Fiji Association of Architects President Adish Naidu has been appointed to the Fiji National Provident Fund Board.

The Fiji Teachers Union is working on a report that will be submitted to the government in relation to child labour issues in the country.

The International Labor Organization says it is aware of the migrant worker issues in the Pacific.

Minister for Home Affairs, Pio Tikoduadua, stresses the critical importance of enhancing cybersecurity in the country.

Marvel Comics artist John Romita Sr, who helped to create characters such as Wolverine, Spider-Man’s girlfriend Mary Jane Watson and his adversary Punisher, has died at the age of 93.

A Guatemalan court on Wednesday sentenced Jose Zamora, a well-known journalist whose work has criticized successive governments, to six years in prison for money laundering in a case rights groups have branded an attack on free speech.

At least nine people have been killed in the latest clashes between members of rival ethnic groups in India’s northeastern state of Manipur, police said on Wednesday, as security forces pressed on with a hunt for illegal weapons.

The Netflix (NFLX.O) romantic comedy “XO, Kitty” is returning for a second season, becoming the No. 1 streaming service’s first television series to be spun-off from an original Netflix film, the “To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before” movie trilogy.

Malaysia shook off a shaky start to subdue Solomon Islands 4-1 in an international football friendly at the Sultan Mizan Zainal Abidin Stadium today.

ITV bosses have said they did not “turn a blind eye” to rumours about ex-presenter Phillip Schofield’s relationship with a younger colleague.

At least 79 migrants drowned early on Wednesday and hundreds more were missing and feared dead after their overloaded boat capsized and sank in open seas off Greece.