Bing Dwen Dwen, a cuddly panda on ice skates, is the official mascot of the Beijing Games -- but people in China are being frustrated in their efforts to buy her. With spectators largely banned from the Games due to coronavirus restrictions, owning...

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The fire was detected in the basement of a section of St. George's Cathedral in Cape Town at around 2 am (midnight GMT). "The fire was an act of arson," father Michael Weeder, dean at the cathedral, said in an note to his parish. "It appears that ...

Xi has not left his country since the coronavirus first emerged in the city of Wuhan, with China now the only major economy still pursuing a strict zero-Covid strategy. But the Beijing Games have allowed Xi to hold a flurry of face-to-face meetings...

Russia has stepped up preparations for an all-out invasion of Ukraine but it is not clear if Moscow has decided to take such a step, US officials have said citing intelligence assessments.

It's a clash of two Liverpool superstars in tonight's Africa Cup of Nations final as Mo Salah’s Egypt take on Sadio Mané’s Senegal at 8pm local time (GMT+1). Follow FRANCE 24's liveblog to catch all the action.

The American, one of the stars of the last Winter Olympics when she won halfpipe gold as a teenager, comes into Beijing with triumphs in all five events she's competed in since returning to action a year ago. "My goal here is to land the best run I...

"These people are farmers, they have crops, they have animals and the turning of the year would have been a major part of their lifestyles," Greaney, senior properties historian at English Heritage, told AFP. It is 4,500 years since labourers from ...

Just as the coronavirus outbreak roars toward its peak in Germany, Berlinale organisers have opted for an 11-day, in-person celebration of new movies and a gala ceremony to award its Golden Bear top prize. The festival said it was crucial to give c...

Queen Elizabeth II has announced that she wants Camilla, the wife of her heir Prince Charles, to ultimately be known as Queen Consort, as she became the first British monarch to reign for seven decades Sunday.

"Batsirai has weakened," Meteo Madagascar said, adding that the cyclone's average wind speed had almost halved to 80 kilometres per hour (50 miles per hour), while the strongest gusts had scaled back to 110 km/h from the 235 km/h recorded when it ma...

The spectacular 60,000-seat Olembe Stadium in the capital Yaounde was built to be the jewel in the crown of Cameroon's Cup of Nations, at an official cost of some 163 billion CFA francs ($284 million). Its name will now always be associated with th...

The match starts at 8:00 pm (1900 GMT) at the Olembe Stadium in Cameroon's capital, scene of the tragic crush on January 24 which caused eight deaths and which has marred the tournament. For all its problems, this Cup of Nations has produced a heav...

The 23-year-old Australia-born wing -- whose mother was born in Ireland before emigrating -- came close to scoring a try inside the first three minutes at Lansdowne Road in the 29-7 Six Nations victory over defending champions Wales. Showing little...

Political scions, celebrities and ex-convicts are among the contenders vying for more than 18,000 posts in the May 9 polls, with most interest on the contest to succeed authoritarian firebrand Rodrigo Duterte, whose six-year presidency has been mark...