One of the procession's tableaux, entitled "The Queen's Favourites", has been commissioned from Imagineer, an outdoor events company based in the English West Midlands city. Director Jane Hytch said the royal commission came as a "total surprise",...

"We are here to prove that there are not only Putinophiles in Bulgaria," IT expert Stanimir Ganev, 43, told AFP at a recent pro-Ukraine march in the capital Sofia, referring to supporters of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Fellow protester Maria ...

Since seizing power last year, the Taliban have imposed a slew of restrictions on civil society, many focused on reining in the rights of women and girls to comply with the group's austere brand of Islam. Earlier this month, Afghanistan's supreme l...

After weeks of siege and strikes much of the city on the coast of the Sea of Azov has been reduced to a wasteland. As the last Ukrainian troops in the town surrendered to the Russians at the bombed-out Azovstal steel plant, passers-by mourned their...

Turning 75 this year, the world's leading film gathering knew it needed a shot of youth and made TikTok an official sponsor. That has brought some of the video platform's biggest stars to the French Riviera -- including Italian-Senegalese sensatio...

Fresh from a victory that ended a decade of continuous conservative rule, Albanese signalled an era of fairer, greener and less pugilistic politics for Australia. The 59-year-old Labor leader said Saturday's election was a "big moment" in his life,...

While dejectedly walking to her New Jersey family home, she vowed to her future self that she would soon acquire her own medals to add to her lapel. On Saturday, the 75-year-old rock legend made good on that promise, as France's ambassador to the ...

Pant dropped a catch and failed to review a caught-behind chance off Mumbai Indians batsman Tim David, who went on smash a match-winning 11-ball 34 on Saturday. Mumbai, the five-time winners who ended bottom of the 10-team table, chased down their ...

China's largest city has been almost entirely locked down since April, when it became the epicentre of the country's worst coronavirus outbreak since the early days of the pandemic. Unlike other major economies, Beijing has dug in its heels on a ze...

The 71-year-old launched his current brand four years ago, selling it to Europe rather than Russia, traditionally his country's biggest customer -- a move that is paying off amid the war in Ukraine. "Most of my production goes to Europe, especially...

After an injury forced Miami talisman Jimmy Butler out of the game at half-time, Adebayo stepped up with a superb all-round display to hold off a ferocious Boston fightback at the Celtics' TD Garden. Adebayo, who had averaged just eight points a ga...

Within a month of making the payment last year, the 43-year-old businessman received a small package in his mailbox. Inside were two navy blue passports from the Caribbean island nation of Saint Kitts and Nevis -- his ticket to visa-free access to ...

The challenges that the technology faces were put on display at a Goodyear test track in Luxembourg, where a group of journalists put a Tesla equipped with airless tyres through its paces. Instead of being filled with air, the tyres have a web of s...

Now Indian farmers and traders are fuming they have been denied a windfall as domestic prices have plummeted. India is the world's second-biggest wheat producer, but the government -- itself the country's biggest buyer of the crop -- said it chose...

NFTs are tokens linked to digital images, "collectable" items, avatars in games or property and objects in the burgeoning virtual world of the metaverse. The likes of Paris Hilton, Gwyneth Paltrow and Serena Williams have boasted about owning NFTs ...