A three-man crew blasted off to the International Space Station Friday in a capsule honouring the 60th anniversary of Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becoming the first person in space. Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Novitsky and Pyotr Dubrov and NASA ast...

A tense run-up to elections in Benin left one dead and several people wounded by gunfire in protests on Thursday in the central city of Save, an opposition stronghold, after troops descended to break up demonstrations. Unrest has brewed as critics o...

Indonesian president Joko Widodo arrived Friday in a cyclone-hit cluster of islands after the disaster killed more than 200 people, including victims in neighbouring East Timor, with dozens still missing. Torrential rains from Tropical Cyclone Sero...

A second team of Australian medical experts flew to Covid-hit Papua New Guinea Friday, as the country's health system threatens to buckle under a growing outbreak. The 17 specialists were dispatched to Port Moresby to help the Pacific nation curb t...

Maskless people greet each other in the streets, friends gather for meals inside restaurants and sports fans once again attend live events. Gibraltar, a tiny British territory on Spain's southern tip, has become one of the first places in the world...

On a small boat nosing its way through the frozen waters of the Grebbestad archipelago on Sweden's west coast, Lotta Klemming scans the mist-covered rocks for the perfect spot to find a local delicacy. While France may spring to mind as a more obvi...

Archaeologists have uncovered the remains of an ancient city in the desert outside Luxor that they say is the "largest" ever found in Egypt and dates back to a golden age of the pharaohs 3,000 years ago. Famed Egyptologist Zahi Hawass announced the...

The Grand National will take place in an eerie atmosphere without spectators on Saturday due to coronavirus protocols after last year's renewal was cancelled due to the pandemic. The world famous steeplechase's winner has a habit of having a back s...

The Brazilian Senate will open an inquiry into the government's handling of the coronavirus pandemic, as President Jair Bolsonaro continues to resist lockdown measures even with Covid-19 deaths at new records. A judge from the country's supreme cou...

Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first man in space 60 years ago next week. He was one of several stars of the Cold War space race between the Soviet Union and the United States who would became heroes to millions. But the technology that ...

The Horn of African country of Djibouti is going to the polls on Friday as President Ismail Omar Guelleh seeks a fifth term in the small but strategically important nation home to military bases for the United States, China and others.

The UN's special envoy for Myanmar is to embark on an Asian tour to step up diplomatic efforts to tackle the crisis, as the death toll from the junta's crackdown on dissent passed 600 on Friday. The push by Christine Schraner Burgener comes amid mo...

The winner of the Clasico will go top of La Liga, while Germany's surprise Champions League contenders face off and Paris Saint-Germain cannot afford to be distracted by thoughts of Bayern Munich. AFP Sport selects some of the standout action in Eu...

Hong Kong on Friday confirmed it has requested AstraZeneca suspend delivery of its Covid-19 vaccine amid fears of severe side effects and concerns over its efficacy against new variants of the coronavirus. Europe's medicines regulator said this wee...

Dmitry Rogozin, the head of Russia's troubled space agency Roscosmos, is hardly your typical bureaucrat. Brash and brazen, the former diplomat has made his name with provocative tweets and boisterous claims. But he is equally well-known for leadi...