Particularly fierce solar storms can knock out satellites and threaten astronauts -- and create dazzling auroras in the skies known as the northern or southern lights. To find out more about this little-understood space weather, the van-sized SMILE...

Elite European clubs with vast revenues concentrate so much of the top talent, and the very best games are often played in the latter stages of the UEFA Champions League -- think of Paris Saint-Germain's recent 5-4 win over Bayern Munich. It is har...

Cherifa, who is in her sixties, was one of about 10 Malian refugees who spoke to AFP from neighbouring Mauritania about the brutal violence meted out against civilians. All the refugees' names have been changed for their safety. "His death is my g...

Naegohyang Women's FC will face South Korea's Suwon FC Women in the semi-finals of the Asian Women's Champions League on Wednesday. Interest in the rare North-South clash has been intense and 7,087 general admission tickets sold out within hours o...

The 27-nation bloc struck an accord with Washington last July setting levies on most European goods at 15 percent, but to the US president's frustration a final version of the text still needs nailing down on the EU side. "A deal is a deal," the US...

Naegohyang Women's FC will face South Korea's Suwon FC Women in the semi-finals of the Asian Women's Champions League on Wednesday. Interest in the rare North-South clash has been intense and 7,087 general admission tickets sold out within hours o...

Putin and Xi are set to discuss how to "further strengthen" Russia and China's strategic partnership and "exchange views on key international and regional issues", according to a Kremlin statement. Their ties have deepened since Russia's invasion o...

Riot police clashed with protesters for hours, tear gas shrouded the streets of La Paz, shops were shuttered and supplies ran low due to protest blockades choking routes into the capital city. Thousands of farmers, miners, teachers, workers from ot...

Vehicular emissions account for more than half of the capital's pollution problem -- some days it tops world rankings for hazardous air -- but the city runs on two-wheelers, the vast majority of them powered by fossil fuels. Vietnam's Communist gov...

AFP Sports looks at five of the big names who have been lured by the quest for World Cup glory: Thomas Tuchel (England) The former Bayern Munich, Chelsea and Paris Saint-Germain boss has become the English Football Association’s latest gun for h...

The four-time Grand Slam champion still holds more than 1,000 ranking points on her closest challengers but foremost on her mind over the next fortnight will be going one better than her runner-up finish last year in the French capital, when she los...

Unai Emery's side head to Istanbul with history in their sights in their first major European final for 44 years. Villa famously defied the odds to shock Bayern Munich in the 1982 European Cup final, thanks to Peter Withe's clinical finish. Lookin...

The Italian will not even have to face Carlos Alcaraz, who beat him in a dramatic Roland Garros final last year, after his great rival was ruled out through injury. Sinner could become the ninth man to complete the set of all four major titles, fol...

The match at Besiktas Park is the Black Forest side's second major final - after losing the 2022 German Cup final to Leipzig on penalties - and is just rewards for their steady development. Once not even the biggest club in Freiburg, the club are e...

South Korea's Kospi slid by more than 3.0 percent, as tech stocks lost ground tracking an overnight slump on Wall Street. But it was the energy markets that drew attention after US President Donald Trump signalled "serious negotiations" with Tehran...