Two hours and 37 minutes is pretty long for a “ballad,” but you can’t call it “The Hunger Games: The Three-Cycle Opera of Songbirds and Snakes” now, can you?

The Ba Town Council will soon be sending out emails and instructions for businesses to take heed of and prepare for Tropical Cyclone Mal.

Weeks of hostilities across the Lebanese-Israeli border have escalated, with growing casualties on both sides and a war of words fuelling concerns of a widening conflict between Israel and the Iran-backed Lebanese group Hezbollah.

Tropical Cyclone Mal is now a category two system.

Uruguay’s record scorer Luis Suarez is back in the squad for the first time since the World Cup after being called up on Monday for their next two qualifiers, but Edinson Cavani is out injured.

Olympic sports bodies want urgent talks with the IOC about possible cuts in their revenue shares and athlete quotas at the 2028 Los Angeles Games because cricket and other newcomers were added to the program.

The National Disaster Management Office is expressing deep concern over the anticipated Tropical Cyclone, particularly the heavy rainfall it is expected to bring.

Education Minister Aseri Radrodro reveals that Year 13 external examinations are set to recommence next Tuesday.

Over 140 athletes and Team Fiji officials left the country this morning for the Pacific Games in the Solomon Islands.

The Nadi Weather Office has revealed that as of 3am today, Tropical Cyclone Mal was situated approximately 430 kilometres west of Rotuma or 650 kilometres northwest of Yasawa.

The Fiji Police Force is urgently appealing to the public to remain indoors.

A family has been left homeless after their two-bedroom house was destroyed in a fire tonight along Airport Road in Waiqele, Labasa.