Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Thursday told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy that he will encourage countries to join peace talks to end the conflict between Ukraine and Russia.

Givenchy creative director Matthew M. Williams focused on dresses at the French fashion house’s fall runway show at Paris Fashion Week on Thursday, sending out a line-up of long, slinky gowns that swept the runway.

Attar Singh and Joe Taoi have joined the Fiji National Provident Fund board after the resignation of Sanjay Kaba and Joel Abraham.

Ukrainian forces held out in the eastern city of Bakhmut against Russian attackers, while the top U.S. diplomat told his Russian counterpart in their first face-to-face encounter since the invasion that the Kremlin must stop the war.\

Mick Schumacher’s Formula One struggles last season feature strongly in the latest run of ‘Drive to Survive’ but the German says he feels no need to watch the Netflix docu-series.

A hidden corridor nine metres (30 feet) long has been discovered close to the main entrance of the 4,500-year-old Great Pyramid of Giza, and this could lead to further findings, Egyptian antiquities officials said on Thursday.

Maylin Amador breeds and styles one of Cuba’s most attractive dogs – the Havanese bichon, a small but lively lapdog with abundant waves of tobacco-colored hair, and the Caribbean island’s only native breed.

Former Flying Fijian and Waratahs winger Nemani Nadolo will not feature against the Swire Shipping Fijian Drua in the Super Round of the Shop N Save Super Rugby Pacific tomorrow.

Two people on motorcycles shot at a supermarket belonging to the family of Antonela Roccuzzo, wife of Lionel Messi, in Rosario, in Argentina’s Santa Fe province early on Thursday morning, local media and the city’s mayor reported.

Mistakes in the last two tournaments have given the Fijiana some time to reflect and work on their weaknesses ahead of the Vancouver 7s which starts tomorrow.

Some students are still studying in tents after their schools were damaged by cyclones in recent years.

Returning to the track and field to prepare for the much anticipated Triple N Zone, Lelean Memorial High School is confident it will give other schools a run for their money.