The Ministry of Education is advising all parents and guardians to take proactive measures to ensure that the safety of their children is paramount during this period of bad weather.

Tourism in Fiji continues its recovery, with January seeing a 4.2 percent increase in visitor arrivals compared to the same period last year.

Some 900 tonnes of lithium batteries were on fire at a battery recycling plant in southern France, authorities said on Sunday, sending a cloud of thick black smoke into the sky above the site.

The Cabinet has endorsed a change in name for the Ministry of Employment, Productivity and Industrial Relations.

A 36-year-old man has been charged for allegedly obtaining more than $1,600 from a major retailer of home durable goods.

Harry Kane is not happy with “the way he is involved” in games of late but Bayern Munich are relying on his leadership to get their season back on track, manager Thomas Tuchel said ahead of Sunday’s Bundesliga match at VfL Bochum.

Sugar Industry Minister, Charan Jeath Singh, has announced that there will be no deductions in cane payments for farmers ensuring that they have sufficient funds for Diwali.

Britain’s top movie honours, the BAFTA Film Awards, were handed out on Sunday at a ceremony in London.

Fiji and Austria share multilateral commitments at the United Nations on common areas of interest such as peace, security and climate change.

An Israeli medallist was booed by the crowd in a sour finish to the Doha World Championships on Sunday, taking the gloss off some stunning achievements in the pool highlighted by Sarah Sjostrom’s third consecutive 50 metres freestyle world title.

“Oppenheimer”, a three-hour epic about the making of the atomic bomb in World War Two, was the big winner at the BAFTA Film Awards on Sunday, winning the top honours for best film and best director as well as five other awards.

More than 400 people have been detained at events across 32 Russian cities since the death of Alexei Navalny, President Vladimir Putin’s most formidable opponent, according to rights group OVD-Info, as Russians continued to gather and lay flowers.