Mourners laid flowers Wednesday at the gates of a Russian school where a day earlier a lone gunman killed nine people, mostly children, in one of the country's worst shooting incidents in recent history. Flags were flown at half-mast on official b...

Oil demand dropped last month as the coronavirus surged in India and elsewhere, the IEA said Wednesday, in a reminder that the global recovery from the pandemic remains fragile. Nevertheless, the International Energy Agency said in its latest month...

Air France and Airbus must stand trial on involuntary manslaughter charges over the 2009 crash of a Rio de Janeiro to Paris flight that killed all 228 people on board, a Paris court ruled on Wednesday. Flight AF447 plunged into the Atlantic Ocean d...

A severely ill hunger-striking Thai democracy activist released from prison vowed Wednesday to keep fighting for reform to the country's monarchy, defying his bail conditions. Parit Chiwarak, who goes by the nickname "Penguin", was held in pre-tria...

Investment giant Softbank Group on Wednesday reported an annual net profit of $45.8 billion, the best ever for a Japanese company, reaping the rewards of tech share rallies to recover from last year's record loss. The telecoms-firm-turned-investmen...

India's coronavirus death toll passed 250,000 on Wednesday but comparisons of official data with those from people on the frontlines suggested the true number is several times higher. Across the vast nation, the devastating Covid-19 wave has overwh...

A former Myanmar beauty queen has joined ethnic rebels to take up arms against the country's military junta, posting photos of herself with an assault rifle. Myanmar has been in chaos and its economy paralysed since the military seized power on Feb...

Swiss health workers busy fighting the pandemic are being encouraged to unwind with a computer game that offers not only distraction but also knowledge to battle Covid-19 in real life. Players of "Escape Covid-19" are guided through a series of sce...

Australian basketball's longest-running feud flared again Wednesday when former NBA star Andrew Bogut took aim at women's Olympic stalwart Liz Cambage over her accusations team photos had been "whitewashed". Cambage threatened to boycott the Tokyo ...

Britain's economic recovery began to recover strongly at the end of the first quarter despite lockdown restrictions, official data revealed on Wednesday. Gross domestic product jumped 2.1 percent in March, the Office for National Statistics said, a...

Two people were killed and dozens wounded as Sudanese security forces dispersed a rally demanding justice for protesters killed during anti-government demonstrations two years ago, the army said Wednesday. Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok said he was ...

Investment giant Softbank Group on Wednesday reported an annual net profit of $45.8 billion, the best ever for a Japanese company, reaping the rewards of tech share rallies to recover from last year's record loss. The telecoms firm turned investmen...

More than 40 percent of a top US business group's members in Hong Kong said they plan to leave the city in a survey released Wednesday, highlighting growing concerns over Beijing's sweeping national security law. China blanketed Hong Kong in a broa...

It has been a year since Atiqullah Tanha's wife was murdered during a cold-blooded killing spree at a Kabul maternity ward, leaving their twin daughters motherless. "They cry a lot at night," Tanha told AFP, saying the children are frequently unwe...

Toyota's full-year net profit jumped 10.3 percent even as the pandemic hit the auto industry, the Japanese firm said Wednesday, projecting growth despite the ongoing semiconductor crisis. The global pandemic has hit automakers hard, with demand col...