Fiji 7s Melrose Cup winner Kaminieli Rasaku has been called up by former All Blacks coach Steve Hansen to feature for the World 15s against Eddie Jones Barbarians.

Yevgeny Prigozhin on Saturday delivered Vladimir Putin one of the few battlefield victories of the president’s 15-month war in Ukraine.

The Proclaimers have spoken for the first time about the decision to pull their most famous song from an official Coronation playlist.

British novelist Sir Salman Rushdie said he has started writing again after being attacked in New York last year.

The U.S. Commerce Department should put trade curbs on Chinese memory chip maker Changxin Memory Technologies (CXMT) after Beijing earlier this week banned the sale of some chips by U.S.-based Micron Technology Inc (MU.O), the chair of the U.S. House of Representatives’ committee on China said on Tuesday.

There were showers of blessings on the Chiefly Island of Bau after the presentation of the two matanigasau or the government’s traditional apology presentation to the Vanua and the Church.

Microsoft Corp started making available to users a host of AI upgrades, including ChatGPT, its search engine Bing as well as cloud services – an expansive launch that seeks to narrow the gap with Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) Google.

The Pacific Sprint King Banuve Tabakaucoro presents the first bowl of yaqona as part of the Yaqona Vakaturaga to President Ratu Wiliame Katonivere during the opening of the Great Council of Chiefs meeting.

The United States said it signed agreements with Micronesia on Tuesday concluding negotiations to extend economic assistance to the island state under a strategic pact key to U.S. efforts to push back against China in the Pacific.

An aged care employer, Bolton Clarke, was in the country as part of the Pacific Australia Labour Mobility (PALM) scheme last week to conduct interviews for APTC regional students, including Fijians.

Britain’s Boris Johnson has been referred to police over further potential breaches of lockdown rules during the COVID-19 pandemic, a charge the former prime minister’s office portrayed as “yet another politically motivated stitch up”.

The traditional ceremony of the Great Council of Chiefs has begun.