An absorbent article, preferably an incontinence pant-like diaper, having a longitudinal axis (Y-Y) and a transverse axis (X-X), comprising: a chassis including a skin-facing side, a garment-facing side opposite to the skin-facing side, a front waist region, a back waist region and a crotch region extending between said front and back waist regions (3,4); a liquid-absorbent member having front and back ends (7,8) extending across the crotch region into the front and back waist regions (3,4), the liquid-absorbent member including a liquid-absorbing core comprising absorbent material, the liquid-absorbing core having front and back ends (10,11); and wherein the front and back waist regions (3,4) comprise front and back waist ends (13,14) and front and back waist lateral edges (15,15',16,16') extending along a direction parallel to the longitudinal axis (Y-Y) and wherein, when the front and back waist regions (3,4) are joined, a waist-opening is formed by the front and back waist ends (13,14) and a pair of leg-openings are formed by one or more crotch-leg-peripheral-edges (17,17') and front and back waist-leg-peripheral-edges (18,18', 19,19'), and wherein at least the back waist region and the front waist region comprise an elastic web material (12, 12') selected from the group consisting of an elastic film, elastic fibers, elastic strings, elastic networks, elastic nonwovens, and combinations thereof, characterized in that the liquid absorbing core comprises one or more longitudinally extending channels substantially free of absorbent material, said channels extending along at least 5% of the length of liquid-absorbing core along the longitudinal axis (Y-Y), wherein at least a portion of said channels overlaps the front waist region and/or back waist region to form an overlap area, and in that said overlap area is inelastic and rendered inelastic by deactivation of the elastic web material, wherein the article is free from an elastic thread proximal and substantially parallel to the first and second front waist-leg-peripheral-edges (18,18'), and wherein at least one of the elastic web materials continuously extends between opposing lateral edges (15,15',16,16') of each of the front and back waist regions (3,4), and wherein the article has a maximum width in the transverse direction and a maximum length in the longitudinal direction, and the ratio of the maximum width to the maximum length of the article is between 80% and 120% as measured in an extended state of the article. a chassis including a skin-facing side, a garment-facing side opposite to the skin-facing side, a front waist region, a back waist region and a crotch region extending between said front and back waist regions (3,4); a liquid-absorbent member having front and back ends (7,8) extending across the crotch region into the front and back waist regions (3,4), the liquid-absorbent member including a liquid-absorbing core comprising absorbent material, the liquid-absorbing core having front and back ends (10,11); and wherein the front and back waist regions (3,4) comprise front and back waist ends (13,14) and front and back waist lateral edges (15,15',16,16') extending along a direction parallel to the longitudinal axis (Y-Y) and wherein, when the front and back waist regions (3,4) are joined, a waist-opening is formed by the front and back waist ends (13,14) and a pair of leg-openings are formed by one or more crotch-leg-peripheral-edges (17,17') and front and back waist-leg-peripheral-edges (18,18', 19,19'), and wherein at least the back waist region and the front waist region comprise an elastic web material (12, 12') selected from the group consisting of an elastic film, elastic fibers, elastic strings, elastic networks, elastic nonwovens, and combinations thereof, characterized in that the liquid absorbing core comprises one or more longitudinally extending channels substantially free of absorbent material, said channels extending along at least 5% of the length of liquid-absorbing core along the longitudinal axis (Y-Y), wherein at least a portion of said channels overlaps the front waist region and/or back waist region to form an overlap area, and in that said overlap area is inelastic and rendered inelastic by deactivation of the elastic web material, wherein the article is free from an elastic thread proximal and substantially parallel to the first and second front waist-leg-peripheral-edges (18,18'), and wherein at least one of the elastic web materials continuously extends between opposing lateral edges (15,15',16,16') of each of the front and back waist regions (3,4), and wherein the article has a maximum width in the transverse direction and a maximum length in the longitudinal direction, and the ratio of the maximum width to the maximum length of the article is between 80% and 120% as measured in an extended state of the article.