The Italian journalist and writer from Piedmont founded Slow Food in 1986, in protest against the opening of the first fast food restaurants in the country. Since then, the movement has ballooned, spreading to 160 countries in its mission to promot...

The US embassy said it is providing thousands of vehicle covers emblazoned with Trump's face and the US flag for the ubiquitous three-wheeled taxi rickshaws plying the sprawling megacity. "Happy Birthday America!", the cover reads, fitted to the b...

The game at the 28,000-capacity Ullevaal Stadium in the Norwegian capital brings together, in the words of UEFA women's football director Nadine Kessler, "the two greatest teams probably of all time". Lyon's total of eight titles in the competition...

The deadliest attack took place at dawn in the municipality of Trujillo in Colon department, where 19 people were shot dead with long guns in an area riven by gang turf wars over a palm plantation and drug trafficking routes, authorities said. In ...

Naegohyang Women's FC take on Japan's Tokyo Verdy Beleza in the South Korean city of Suwon, having beaten Suwon FC Women in the semi-finals at the same stadium earlier this week. The rare North-South semi-final was a hard-fought match played in a f...

Property developer Truong My Lan was convicted in 2024 of swindling cash from Saigon Commercial Bank (SCB), which prosecutors said she controlled. She was initially sentenced to death in one of Vietnam's biggest corruption cases, but now faces life...

The 28-year-old Uno, who won silver at the 2018 Pyeongchang Olympics and bronze four years later in Beijing, quit competitive skating in May 2024. He has said he is in a relationship with former world junior champion Honda, who had also previously ...

Just weeks ago, Bayern were flying high and hopeful of a treble after beating Real Madrid for the first time in over a decade, in the Champions League quarter-finals. But despite challenging defending champions Paris Saint-Germain over two semi-fin...

AFP Sport picks out five talking points ahead of the season finale. Bernabeu departures Last week Antoine Griezmann, Robert Lewandowski and others bid farewell to Atletico Madrid and Barcelona fans respectively. On Saturday it will be Dani Carvaj...

AFP sports looks at five of the stars who must shoulder the burden of their nations' expectation in the first-ever 48-team finals spread across the United States, Mexico and Canada: Kylian Mbappe (France) Mbappe could become the all-time top goals...

Josh Hart led the Knicks with a career playoff high 26 points, drilling five of New York's 13 three-pointers. New York star Jalen Brunson, who spearheaded the Knicks' stunning comeback from a 22-point fourth-quarter deficit in a game one overtime w...

Trump left heads spinning as NATO foreign ministers gathered in the Swedish city of Helsingborg by announcing he would send 5,000 troops to Poland, in an apparent reversal of Washington earlier calling off the planned deployment. The shift was welc...

The country intercepted more than 400 people attempting to cross the Channel so far this year, up from none in the whole of 2025, according to government figures in what local officials say is a spillover from neighbouring France, following a crackd...

In Europe, major races including Paris-Roubaix, Tour of Flanders and Tour de Suisse already host men's and women's events on the same day, but over different distances and routes. "To have men's and women's stage racing on the same day and over the...