Fiji Bati fullback Sunia Turuva is expected to make the Penrith Panthers match day 17 in round one of the NRL next week.

Fiji has earned its stripes as an outsourcing services industry, and the government is committed to fostering an environment that supports investment and growth in the sector.

The Roman Catholic religious order of Jesuits said on Tuesday that accusations of sexual, psychological and spiritual abuse against a prominent member of the order were highly credible and that restrictions on him had been tightened.

The Commander Land Forces, Colonel Onisivoro Covunisaqa, bids farewell to a platoon minus strength of the Land Forces Unit that will depart the Queen Elizabeth Barracks this afternoon for Blackrock Camp, Nadi.

Ten more individuals have been fined by health inspectors for smoking at the Labasa Market and Labasa Bus Stand.

Residents of Waidamudamu, Nausori, raised various land-related issues with the Ministry of Housing and Local Government during a public consultation.

Outspoken Russian mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin accused top brass on Tuesday of deliberately depriving his Wagner fighters of munitions in what he called a treasonous attempt to destroy his private military company.

Mokosoi is leading at the Adi Cakobau School Inter-House competition at the HFC Bank Stadium in Suva.

The Sugar Research Institute of Fiji is working to address the soil type used for planting cane.

Madagascar’s government suspended schools and transport in the path of tropical cyclone Freddy, which made landfall in the southeast of the island on Tuesday evening, causing a storm surge, ripping roofs off houses and killing at least one person.

From an abandoned wooden structure in the desert to old tyres found on a motorway, an exhibition of installations made with scavenged materials by British artist Mike Nelson goes on show at London’s Hayward Gallery this week.

Director Steven Spielberg, picking up a lifetime achievement award at the Berlin Film Festival, said the prospect of making new films continued to excite him at 76, and unveiled new details of his planned HBO series.