On Monday, the French club's lawyers and president faced a disciplinary hearing by the French national league (LNR), who run the Top 14, over the 2022 transfer of full-back Melvyn Jaminet from Perpignan. The LNR are investigating the 450,000 euros ...

Asghari, who at 31 is living in exile for the second time, does however favour engaging with Afghanistan's rulers. The Taliban government have banned girls from schools beyond the age of 12, and barred women from most jobs and public services -- an...

The Egypt international accused Liverpool of throwing him "under the bus" after he was left on the bench for last week's 3-3 draw at Leeds -- the third match in a row that he did not start. Salah also said he had no relationship with the Dutch mana...

"I have 10 kids, but I'm here with only three. I don't know what happened to the other seven, or their father," Akilimali Mirindi, 40, told AFP in the Nyarushishi refugee camp in Rwanda's Rusizi district. Around 1,000 Congolese have ended up in th...

The iron sculpture in Kolkata, which shows Messi holding aloft the World Cup, is part of a so-called GOAT Tour that will take in four Indian cities and a possible meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The 38-year-old Argentina and Inter Miami ...

Tina Peters, a former official in Colorado's Mesa County, was sentenced in October 2024 for allowing an unauthorized Trump supporter to access confidential voting information several months after the 2020 election won by Democrat Joe Biden. The ma...

Local police last week raided a studio in Badung, a popular tourist district near the resort island's capital, Denpasar, detaining Blue, 26, whose real name is Tia Billinger. Three men -- two Britons and an Australian -- were also taken on suspicio...

Only scientifically classified as a species in 2017, tapanulis are incredibly rare, with fewer than 800 left in the wild, confined to a small range in part of Indonesia's Sumatra. One dead suspected tapanuli orangutan has already been found in the ...

"Peace amidst chaos -- not everyone can feel this way," said Watthanachai Kamngam, a 38-year-old music teacher whose vibrant murals were inspired by the harsh reality around him. Thailand and Cambodia have been locked in fierce military conflict th...

Some experts say it's a way of coping. Critics, including President Claudia Sheinbaum, see it as monetized glorification of a genre known as "narco culture." With thousands of daily users, the games allow players to choose whether they want to be a...

Bears have killed a record 13 people in Japan this year and injured more than 200 others, while reports of the creatures roaming near schools and rampaging in supermarkets have heightened anxiety, especially in rural northern regions. The hiker's G...

Lai, who turned 78 this week, is charged with foreign collusion under Hong Kong's national security law, which Beijing imposed following huge and sometimes violent pro-democracy protests in 2019. The founder of the Apple Daily newspaper has been be...

The Falcons, already eliminated from playoff contention, clearly relished their role as potential spoilers in Tampa Bay, where Atlanta quarterback Kirk Cousins threw for 373 yards and three touchdowns -- all to tight end Kyle Pitts Sr. Bijan Robins...

Jiang Cuiyun, then a 72-year-old retiree, was one of 239 people aboard flight MH370 when it vanished from radar screens on March 8, 2014, en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. Despite the largest search in aviation history, the plane has not been ...

They met just two months ago in a World Cup qualifier with the Senegalese coming from two goals behind to snatch a 3-2 victory through a Pape Matar Sarr goal. Victory led to Senegal qualifying for a third straight World Cup while DR Congo will fac...