Supporters of the new junta in Burkina Faso gathered in the capital Ouagadougou on Tuesday as neighbouring countries, the UN and France condemned the military coup.

Mateusz Sochowicz ended up in hospital with the bone of his right leg poking out and a fractured left kneecap after he smashed into a closed gate on the official Beijing luge course in November. The 25-year-old struck the barrier -- which should ha...

Barty is renowned as one of the best tacticians in the game and has out-thought and out-played all her opponents so far, in devastating fashion. Heading into their semi-final on Rod Laver Arena on Thursday, the world number one has dropped just 17 ...

"Tantura", which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival last week, revisits a controversial episode from the war that raged during Israel's creation, in which more than 760,000 Palestinians fled or were forced from their homes. Tantura was a co...

Istanbul Airport closed on Monday for the first time since it took over from the old Ataturk Airport as the global hub of Turkish Airlines in 2019. Fuming passengers complained on Twitter about a lack of regular updates from Turkish travel official...

Dressed in bright orange jackets with white crosses, the medics are the first group of people in China to be specifically trained for emergency ski rescues. And until recently, most were little more than amateur skiers in a country with a nascent ...

The Greek fourth seed played his best tennis yet in the year's opening major to romp past the 11th-seeded Italian 6-3, 6-4, 6-2 in 2hr 6min and into a semi-final against either Daniil Medvedev or Felix Auger-Aliassime. It was a most impressive perf...

Captain Maya Yoshida and Arsenal full-back Takehiro Tomiyasu have both been ruled out of Japan's crunch home qualifiers against China on Thursday and Saudi Arabia on February 1. But Minamino insisted the four-time Asian champions have enough qualit...

The plan, voted on by the city council, will also require weapons owners in the Californian city to pay an annual fee that will fund a non-profit group to help victims of gun violence. "Tonight San Jose became the first city in the United States to...

Catholic dioceses in France have raised 20 million euros ($22.6 million) to compensate thousands of victims of historical child sexual abuse by clergy, the fund in charge of raising the money said Tuesday.

The scene, captured in devastating detail, has been created by artist Khaled Dawwa, a Syrian exile and prison survivor who now works in France. In his colossal work entitled "Here is my heart!", Dawwa is still battling oppression, urging viewers "n...

The "partygate" scandal engulfing Boris Johnson has piqued public outrage that the prime minister was not playing by the rules he set for everyone else.

Friction and suspicion are almost palpable in Kafolo, a small town near the border with Burkina Faso where jihadists have struck twice in less than 18 months, killing 16 soldiers. The army has established a large camp at the entrance to Kafolo and ...

Tongan Health Minister Saia Piukala said the crew of the HMAS Adelaide would follow drastic health protocols to ensure the remote Pacific kingdom remains one of the few places in the world still free of Covid-19. "The ship will berth and no contac...

The massive Oyu Tolgoi gold-copper mine has been mired in controversy for years and disrupted by protests from locals worried about environmental damage and foreign influence. While it started production from an open-pit mine several years after Mo...