Rached Ghannouchi, 81, finally left the police station in Tunis at 6:30 am (0530 GMT), an AFP correspondent reported. The longtime exile had been a dominant figure in Tunisian politics after the Arab Spring uprising of 2011 but is a bete noire for ...

The 20-time Grand Slam champion announced last Thursday he would be retiring from competitive tennis after a final appearance at the Laver Cup in London this week. Federer last played on tour more than a year ago, at Wimbledon in 2021, after which ...

Berlin and Uniper's Finnish owner, Fortum, announced a deal that will leave Germany with a 98.5 percent stake in the debt-laden gas company. "Uniper is a central pillar of German energy supplies," the economy ministry said in a statement. Under th...

The Spaniard beat Greek qualifier Despina Papamichail 6-4, 6-2 to move into the quarter-finals in Tokyo and gain "a little bit more confidence" in a poor year for the two-time Grand Slam champion. Muguruza has not managed to string together more th...

The self-styled "people's lawyer" was the first to withdraw support from Prime Minister Mario Draghi's national unity government in July, ultimately leading to his resignation and the calling of Sunday's snap elections. Facing a collapse in support...

Since snap elections were called for September 25, the 56-year-old has emerged as the main rival to Giorgia Meloni, whose post-fascist Brothers of Italy party looks set to lead her right-wing coalition to power. Letta has long been a fixture in Ita...

His right-wing party is polling at just eight percent but looks set to enter government as part of a coalition led by far-right leader Giorgia Meloni. "Il Cavaliere" (The Knight) is himself running for the Senate, almost a decade after being forced...

But Stevo Stepanovski and his remarkable collection of 20,000 books stayed put in his almost abandoned valley. The library began with Stepanovski's great-grandfather who was given his first tranche of books by passing Ottoman soldiers in the late 1...

In the latest racially tinged scandal to hit Australia's most popular spectator sport, Hawthorn Football Club said an internal investigation into how Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander players were treated had raised "disturbing" historical claim...

A rarety in the EU, the two million inhabitants of Vienna get their tap water from dozens of springs -- the main one some 655 metres (2,150 feet) above sea level. It's a serious subject in Vienna, where access to clean drinking water has since 2001...

Now, a new series debuting Thursday promises an intimate Thai perspective on the extraordinary effort to save 13 lives from a flooded cave back in 2018. The world was captivated by the young "Wild Boars" football team trapped inside a cave complex ...

Soaring prices that are putting the squeeze on American families and businesses have already become a political liability for President Joe Biden, as he faces midterm congressional elections in early November. But a contraction of the world's large...

It is the highest ever "replenishment" goal set by the organization, and comes amid rising economic pressures -- both on donor countries and recipients -- following the Covid-19 pandemic and the food and energy crises caused by the Ukraine conflict....

The clouds have been gathering over coach Didier Deschamps and his squad as key players struggle with injuries and personal problems. Meanwhile the French Football Federation (FFF) is locked in a row over image rights with its biggest star and its ...

NASA's Frank Rubio and Russia's Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitry Petelin are scheduled to take off from the Russia-leased Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 1354 GMT, according to Russian space agency Roscosmos. Rubio will become the first US astronau...