French group Total, one of the world’s biggest energy companies, is preparing to change its name to TotalEnergies to signal its diversification towards cleaner energy sources.

Roger Federer is auctioning t-shirts, racquets, and shoes from his trophy-laden tennis career after delving into the vast memorabilia archive stored up for years by his wife and family. The sports legend is hoping to raise £1 million ($1.4 million...

Thousands of Australians marched in nationwide climate protests Friday, with many schoolchildren skipping classes to voice their anger at a massive new gas project and government foot-dragging on emissions targets. At events from Perth to Brisbane,...

Israel Folau signed up to play for a second-tier Australian rugby league team Friday in his latest bid to end a sporting exile sparked by his homophobic social media posts. The former rugby union international told a press conference he planned to ...

Japan formally approved Moderna and AstraZeneca's Covid-19 vaccines on Friday, but the latter will not be used immediately because of lingering concern over very rare blood clots. The decision comes just over two months before the pandemic-postpone...

An Indian court Friday acquitted the former editor of a leading news magazine accused of raping a female colleague seven years ago in a high-profile case that made headlines across the country. Tarun Tejpal was acquitted of charges of rape, sexual ...

This flashpoint neighbourhood of East Jerusalem is where regional escalation from Gaza to the West Bank is rooted. But as one prominent Palestinian activist living in the area tells FRANCE 24, tensions there are nothing new.

Chile, Latin America's richest country but deeply unequal, faces an uncertain economic future after mostly left-leaning independents swept elections to dominate a body that will rewrite the country's free market-friendly constitution. Over the cour...

An Egyptian-mediated truce between Israel and Hamas took hold on Friday after the worst violence in years, with US President Joe Biden pledging to salvage the devastated Gaza Strip and the United Nations urging renewed Israeli-Palestinian dialogue.

Tyson Fury and Deontay Wilder have verbally committed to a third fight, ESPN reported Thursday night, days after an arbitration ruling halted fight talks between Fury and British champ Anthony Joshua. After the independent arbitrator ruled Monday t...

Brazil has spent the past three weeks immersed in wall-to-wall coverage of a Senate inquiry into why Covid-19 exploded so horribly in the country -- a parade of damning, sometimes comical testimony likely to damage President Jair Bolsonaro. The let...

Gyrating with gusto to the sounds of "Girls Just Want To Have Fun", a group of middle-aged Poles is fighting off lingering Covid symptoms with gym circuits. But this is no ordinary fitness workout. It is taking place 130 metres (427 feet) undergro...

Nurses measure out vaccine doses in a sunny room with giant windows offering views of the grounds' rampant bougainvillea. By the end of the day, 90 residents and staff at the Evanna Tehuis retirement home will have received Covid-19 jabs. The home...

Hundreds of Greek firefighters fought to master a large forest blaze burning for a second day on Friday, with better weather conditions providing hope the flames could be subdued. Nearly 300 firefighters battled throughout the night to keep the fi...

European Union citizens can start packing for summer vacations in the bloc’s 27 nations without having to worry about quarantines: they soon should be able to travel freely across the EU.