A small town in western France has set a world record for the greatest number of smurf-costumed people gathered in the same ...

Israel launched an intensified offensive in Gaza on Saturday aimed at "the defeat of Hamas", with rescuers in the Palestinian ...

British climber Kenton Cool successfully climbed Mount Everest for the nineteenth time on Sunday, extending his own record ...

Israel signalled Sunday that it was open to striking a deal with Hamas that included "ending the fighting" in Gaza, where ...

This year's Cannes film festival has all the usual glitz and glamour but is also heavy on politics. AFP looks at some of the ...

Ukraine on Sunday said that Russia had launched a record number of drones at the country overnight, targeting various regions, including that of the capital Kyiv, where a woman was ...

Kenyan lawyer Martha Karua, a presidential candidate who also represents opposition figures on trial in neighbouring ...

Pope Leo XIV set the tone for his papacy Sunday with a call to stop exploiting nature and marginalising the poor, before an ...

Gaza's civil defence agency said Israeli air strikes on Sunday killed at least 33 people, more than half of them children, a ...

Romanians began voting Sunday in a tense presidential election rerun, a tight race between a fan of US President Donald Trump and a pro-EU mayor that could reshape the direction ...

Pope Leo XIV, the first US pontiff, made his debut tour of St Peter's Square on Sunday in a popemobile, greeting tens of ...

A Mexican Navy training ship slammed into the Brooklyn Bridge late Saturday, snapping all three of its masts as it collided ...