Germany's resurgent Green party, its sights set on the chancellery in September's election, has stumbled on the campaign trail over undeclared bonus payments and controversial comments about arming Ukraine. But although support for the centre-left,...

Tottenham have made contact with former manager Mauricio Pochettino -- currently boss of Paris Saint-Germain -- about a return to the club, according to widespread reports in the British press on Friday. The 49-year-old left Spurs in November 2019 ...

Carbon-polluting corporations and their investors face a rising tide of climate litigation, according to a report released Friday, two days after a Dutch court ordered oil giant Shell to slash its greenhouse gas emissions. Companies operating in ri...

France 24 visits a hospital in the Gaza Strip, where doctors worked around the clock during recent fighting between Israel and Hamas. Despite their best efforts, they say many patients were beyond saving.

Australia was due Friday to shut its embassy in Afghanistan, highlighting the security fears for foreign missions and their local workers as US-led troops pull out of the war-torn country. With President Joe Biden's September 11 deadline looming, n...

The eastern DRCongo city of Goma was almost deserted Friday after residents fled following a warning that the Mount Nyiragongo volcano might erupt again. Goma, located on the shore of Lake Kivu, has been on edge since Africa's most active volcano e...

When she returns home, 22-year-old Luana Myrtollari immediately locks the door and draws the curtains, a reflexive gesture that comes from fear. Transgender people find little acceptance in conservative societies like Albania. "Every time you go o...

Anthony Davis scored 34 points and 11 rebounds and LeBron James delivered 21 points and nine assists as the Los Angeles Lakers defeated the short-handed Phoenix Suns 109-95 in a heated Western Conference playoff game Thursday. Davis is looking like...

Nike said Thursday it parted ways with Neymar last year after the superstar Brazil attacker "refused to cooperate in a good faith investigation" as the company probed an employee's claim that he sexually assaulted her. 

Hong Kong democracy campaigner Figo Chan wore an "Avengers" hoodie into court for his jail sentence in a nod to his love of the comic series and its tale of heroic redemption. He says prison will make him a "better man". Chan, 25, was one of eight ...

Tonnes of charred plastic pellets from a burning container ship washed shore near Sri Lanka's capital Friday as an international effort to salvage the vessel dragged into a ninth day. Thick black smoke rose from the Singapore-registered MV X-Press ...

The Old Forge pub in Inverie, western Scotland, is Britain's most remote watering hole, situated in what has been described as the country's "last true wilderness". Just getting there requires a 30-minute boat trip or, for the more adventurous, an ...

Hong Kong media tycoon and outspoken pro-democracy activist Jimmy Lai was sentenced to more jail time Friday over his role in an anti-government protest in 2019, as authorities step up a crackdown on dissent in the city.

Cuban ballet star Carlos Acosta is staging world dance premieres at one of Britain's top ballet companies to welcome audiences back after the "nightmare" of the pandemic lockdowns. The 47-year-old, who took over as director of the Birmingham Royal ...

Inside an abandoned house, onions sizzle as mother-of-four Seror struggles to cook an Iraqi speciality over an open fire, trying to maintain an illusion of home for her loved ones. The Alhayani family are among hundreds of people from the Middle Ea...