Dozens of people became ill earlier this week after drinking methanol -- a poisonous form of alcohol sometimes used as an antifreeze -- sold in several villages across Gujarat state. Senior police official Ashok Yadav told AFP that 31 people had s...

CK Asset Holdings, founded by Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing, said it had submitted a tender for the 26-storey building, which is currently valued at HK$9 billion ($1.1 billion) according to Hong Kong media. Evergrande has been involved in rest...

Though Biden says he is confident the US economy is not suffering a downturn, a report showing a second consecutive quarter of negative growth -- meeting one of the common definitions of a recession -- would increase fears of a wider downturn. Bide...

Just don't expect the 23-year-old to vote. "I have only come to the rally because there is money. I hope there will be something," Atieno told AFP, referring to the widespread Kenyan practice of offering freebies to prospective voters. Currently ...

Last week, the Port of New York and New Jersey reported that its June 2022 volumes were the second-highest in history, capping a torrid semester that has overtaken the first half of the record-setting 2021 year by 11.4 percent. "Volumes continue to...

Washington and Seoul have repeatedly warned that Pyongyang is preparing to carry out its seventh nuclear test -- a move that the United States has warned would provoke a "swift and forceful" response. In Kim's latest speech to mark the armistice th...

After a recent home series defeat to Ireland, New Zealand Rugby CEO Mark Robinson branded the team's performance "unacceptable" over the three tests as Foster's performance as head coach came under review. Despite pundits calling for him to resign,...

A quarter of Hong Kong's prisoners are women, a record-high percentage skewed by impoverished foreign drug mules who are often duped or coerced. Awaiting deportation after her release, Lecarnaque Saavedra sat on a bunk bed in a cramped hostel and d...

A court in the capital Managua sentenced Suazo to five years in jail for "conspiring to undermine national integrity" and another five years for spreading fake news, according to the Civic Alliance for Justice and Democracy, where he served as a dir...

The seven-time world champion was second behind champion and series leader Max Verstappen of Red Bull at Le Castellet in his 300th Formula One race, one place ahead of team-mate George Russell. It was Mercedes' first double podium this season. Ham...

The dollar also struggled to bounce back from a sell-off -- sitting at a three-week low against the yen -- that came in response to comments by bank chief Jerome Powell suggesting its next super-sized increase could be its last. However, analysts c...

Five people were killed and more than 150 injured when a 7.0-magnitude quake struck the lightly populated province of Abra on Wednesday morning, authorities said. The powerful quake rippled across the mountainous region, toppling buildings, trigger...

"At first I thought it was thunder. But the sky was clear, and I realised that it was shelling," the 31-year-old designer told AFP, recalling how she raced to the corridor outside her room in case of a direct hit. Shocked at the destruction wreak...

The Commonwealth's most populous country is not generally known as a global sporting powerhouse -- except for cricket -- but it has regularly performed well at the Games. India came third in the medals table behind hosts Australia, and England, at ...

AFP Sports picks out five things to know about Birmingham: Steaming along Birmingham in the late 18th century was termed "the first manufacturing town in the world" and earned the nickname "the city of a thousand trades". Scottish inventor James Wa...