Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt won the 2025 Nobel economics prize for their work on how innovation and the forces of “creative destruction” can drive economic growth and lift living standards across the globe.

One of Cuba’s best known dissidents went into exile from prison, the Cuban Foreign Ministry said, headed for the U.S. at the Trump administration’s request.

Fiji’s men’s basketball team suffered a narrow 70-67 defeat to hosts Solomon Islands in their Melanesian Cup opener last night, marking a challenging start to their title defense.

Two trains collided in eastern Slovakia, derailing an engine and a carriage and injuring at least 66 people, emergency medical services and police said.

Torrential rains that lashed Mexico last week killed at least 64 people and 65 more are missing, the government said, after a tropical depression triggered landslides and flooding in parts of the Gulf Coast and central states.

South African rugby sevens superstar Rosko Specman has been unveiled as the official ambassador for the 2026 McDonald’s Coral Coast 7s, set to take place in Sigatoka in January.

Joyous Palestinians rushed to embrace prisoners freed under a U.S.-brokered ceasefire agreement as they arrived by bus to the occupied West Bank and Gaza on Monday.

Two years after a tragic incident in Suva, a man has been charged in connection with the death of a 21-year-old woman who fell from a Ferris wheel.

Cricket Fiji are in for a very busy season next year, and is expected to start their 2026 campaign as early as January.

Psychologist and Permanent Secretary for Justice Selina Kuruleca believes that corporal punishment not only violates the law but rewires a child’s brain for fear and aggression, creating a cycle of violence that extends into adulthood.

The Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions and the Child Services Unit have highlighted a range of barriers faced in prosecuting cases of child sexual abuse, particularly when the perpetrator is a family member or someone known to the victim.

Women in the Northern Division now have access to advanced gynaecological care following the donation of new hysteroscopy and laparoscopic equipment to Labasa Hospital by the Friends of Fiji Health charity group.