The Indian Navy and Air Force joined rescue efforts in the western state of Maharashtra on Friday after heavy monsoon rains left thousands stranded in floods and landslides that have killed at least three people. Water levels rose to 3.5 metres (12...

Tanzania's government said it is gearing up to roll out vaccinations against Covid-19 soon, in a shift from the policies of the country's former Covid-sceptic leader. Health Minister Dorothy Gwajima said late Thursday the government was also bannin...

Electric cars -- key to reducing emissions and meeting climate change goals -- have boosted their market share in Europe, data showed Friday, as the region prepares to abandon petrol and diesel. Battery electric vehicles more than doubled their sha...

A top Samoan court on Friday ended a 15-week constitutional crisis, confirming Fiame Naomi Mata'afa as the Pacific island nation's first woman prime minister. The country has been in a political deadlock since April, when long-ruling Tuilaepa Sa'il...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel warned on Thursday that new cases of Covid-19 in her country were rising "exponentially", driven by the Delta variant, as EU officials said more than half of all European adults had been fully vaccinated, short of a ...

Football has always been Nigeria's favourite sport with a historic Olympic gold the pinnacle of its success, but the country now eyes basketball for glory at the Tokyo Games. The West African nation of 210 million people made history 25 years ago w...

Trailblazing Jessica Fox has won virtually everything on offer in a kayak except Olympic gold, and now she could claim two after spearheading a push to have a canoe event added to the program in Tokyo. Regarded as perhaps the greatest paddler of al...

In her yellow-and-white striped beach hut, Melanie Whitehead boils the kettle for a cup of tea and sits gazing out over the North Sea. Brightly painted wooden huts like hers line England's coastline and have enjoyed a boom during the pandemic, as p...

Mourners were set to offer their final farewell to Haiti's slain president Jovenel Moise under tight security on Friday, just over two weeks after his assassination rattled a country mired in poverty, corruption, and political instability.

Many of opera's most celebrated voices have soared and resonated in its highly acclaimed acoustics, yet the creation of the historic auditorium at the Salzburg Festival was a tall order 60 years ago. Only just free of the post-World War II occupyin...

Syria's Hend Zaza was just five when she first picked up a table tennis paddle, and now the 12-year-old is the youngest person to compete at the Tokyo Olympics. Zaza shot to fame overnight in her war-torn country last year after beating a Lebanese ...

Amy Winehouse may still be best known for her line: "They tried to make me go to rehab. But I said no, no, no." But 10 years after the British singer's death at 27, her family and friends say it is time to stop defining her by her well-documented s...

High up in Romania's Carpathians, some villagers are hoping their area's unique Roman galleries will attract UNESCO world heritage status -- a decision that would further stall a controversial gold mining project. The site nestled in the Apuseni Mo...

Boxing's credibility is on the line at the Tokyo Olympics after a series of scandals saw its governing body given the boot and judging controversies marred the Rio 2016 Games. Boxing first featured at the ancient Olympics and later launched the car...

Villagers were evacuated over makeshift bridges Friday as floods submerged swathes of central China, following a historic deluge which claimed at least 33 lives, while a typhoon threatened to bring more misery as it headed towards the country's east...