The country of around seven million will elect the president, deputies for the 250-seat parliament and cast votes in several municipal contests. The latest opinion polls say Vucic's centre-right Serbian Progressive Party should maintain its contro...

Former president Jose Maria Figueres was once investigated for corruption while ex-finance minister Rodrigo Chaves was previously demoted for sexual harassment. But with 23 percent of the population living in poverty and unemployment soaring to 14 ...

According to Christian tradition, the Apostle Paul was shipwrecked on the tiny Mediterranean island in the year 60 AD, and performed several miracles in his three months there. The grotto, at the Basilica of St Paul in Rabat, is an important place...

So when prison staff woke him up from a nap one day to hand him candidate manifestos for this month's presidential election in France, he was taken aback. "They knocked at the door, and that's how I found out that I can vote even while in prison," ...

Two years later her elder sister Banaz, who had left a marriage she was forced into aged 17, was murdered by members of her family in a so-called honour killing. Laws in England and Wales, which allow 16- and 17-year-olds to get married as long as ...

Beekeeper Brahim Chatoui says he has lost almost a third of his hives in just two months -- and he is not alone. "At this time of year, this area would normally be buzzing with bees," said Chatoui, sweating under a blazing springtime sun. "Today, t...

Akram Johari is one of thousands who fled Lebanon's tumbling currency and skyrocketing poverty rates. Last year, he packed his bags and boarded a plane from Beirut to Baghdad, using social media to search for opportunities. "I didn't have enough t...

No premier of Pakistan has ever completed a full term, and Khan faces the biggest challenge to his rule since being elected in 2018, with opponents accusing him of economic mismanagement and bungling foreign policy. Sunday's newspapers splashed for...

The country of around seven million will elect the president, deputies for the 250-seat parliament and cast votes in several municipal contests. According to the latest opinion polls, Vucic's centre-right Serbian Progressive Party is expected to m...

The six main opposition parties are for the first time fielding a joint list, determined to roll back the "illiberal" revolution Orban's Fidesz party has pursued during its 12 consecutive years in office. That has involved repeated confrontations w...

The Hawks grabbed their fifth straight win to move into eighth place in the Eastern Conference, a game ahead of the Nets and the Charlotte Hornets, who were routed 144-114 by the Philadelphia 76ers earlier in the day. All three are jockeying for po...

Russia is a major supplier of diamonds, gold and other precious metals to the luxury watchmakers exhibiting at Watches and Wonders, one of the world's top salons for the prestige industry. The Russian group Alrosa -- the world's largest diamond min...

The highly transmissible Omicron variant has spread to more than a dozen provinces, rattling China's "zero-Covid" strategy which had until March successfully kept the daily caseload down to double or triple digits. But the current outbreak is also ...

The South Asian nation is facing severe shortages of food, fuel and other essentials, along with sharp price rises and crippling power cuts, in its most painful downturn since independence from Britain in 1948. President Gotabaya Rajapaksa imposed ...

South Korean defence minister Suh Wook had said Friday that his army had missiles with "the ability to accurately and quickly hit any target in North Korea". The comments drew condemnation from Kim Yo Jong, the sister of North Korean leader Kim Jon...