Ex-president Mikheil Saakashvili said Friday he had returned from exile to Georgia, despite the threat of arrest and ahead of local elections in the Caucasus country gripped by a protracted political crisis. "I risked my life and freedom to be back...

Nigeria has delayed the launch of its eNaira digital currency, initially planned for Friday, because of the country's independence day celebrations, the Central Bank of Nigeria said. Africa's largest economy was set to follow China and others in ad...

Covid-19 cases have soared to critical levels across Syria in recent weeks, officials told AFP Friday, with health facilities reaching maximum capacity and unable to cope. In some of the areas most affected by the country's decade of conflict, heal...

The UN warned of "unprecedented" malnutrition among pregnant and lactating women in Ethiopia's war-hit Tigray region, in a report published hours after the government sparked outrage by expelling senior UN officials. The latest situation report fro...

It was meant to "signal a new era of virtual football", but Konami's "eFootball 2022" appears to have missed the goal, with players mocking its graphics and gameplay. The new free-to-play title from the Japanese firm is the latest release in one of...

West Indies cricket star Chris Gayle has pulled out of the Indian Premier League with "bubble fatigue" and will instead focus on this month's T20 World Cup. The big-hitting 42-year-old batsman played two out of three matches for Punjab Kings since ...

Victoria Atieno was waiting at a Nairobi bus stop when she felt blood gush from her body, the result of a secret, self-induced abortion -- a method used by thousands of Kenyan women, with potentially fatal consequences. Kenya's constitution eased a...

Sahith Theegala fired an eight-under-par 64 to take the first-round lead at the PGA Tour's Sanderson Farms Championship in Mississippi on Thursday. The 23-year-old from California opened with three straight birdies and never looked back in a bogey-...

"Noe looks like a ghost town," says Eloukou Yapo, a youth leader in the Ivorian town near the border with Ghana. "Nothing moves. Everything has stopped." Life here has been in limbo for the past year and a half, since the authorities sealed off the...

Fashion executive Peter Nygard, wanted in the United States for alleged sex crimes, is to appear in a Canadian court Friday for an extradition hearing. Held in prison since his arrest in Winnipeg, Manitoba last December, the 80-year-old Finnish-Can...

Grammy-winning pop star Gloria Estefan revealed Thursday that she was sexually abused by a relative when she was nine years old. The Cuban-American singer shared the childhood trauma during an episode of her Facebook Watch series "Red Table Talk: T...

Former Liverpool and England striker Daniel Sturridge signed for Australian side Perth Glory on Friday, saying it "felt like the right thing to do". The 32-year-old, who was banned for four months last year for breaching betting regulations, agreed...

China's top state-owned energy companies have been ordered to ensure there are adequate fuel supplies for the approaching winter at all costs, a report said Friday, as the country battles a power crisis that threatens to hit growth in the world's nu...

Just two percent of the population, or less, have been fully vaccinated against coronavirus in half of the countries in Africa, the World Health Organization said on Thursday, Fifteen of the continent's 54 nations have managed to vaccinate at least...

Paris Saint-Germain are already surging clear towards the Ligue 1 title in France even as Lionel Messi has so far been held back for the Champions League, in which he got his first goal for his new club in midweek. Messi's majestic strike sealed a ...