The number of people in France who have received at least one jab against Covid-19 has crossed the 40-million mark, President Emmanuel Macron said on Monday. After four million people received vaccines over the past two weeks, some 60 percent of the ...

US President Joe Biden is expected to announce on Thursday that all civilian federal workers will need to be vaccinated against the coronavirus or face regular testing, social distancing, mask requirements and travel limits.

Eye on Africa: South African graphic novel giant Loyizo Mkize, creator of the superhero Kwezi, has signed a contract with the American publisher DC Comics. FRANCE 24's correspondents report.

When golfers get the yips they risk a missed putt -- when Simone Biles gets the equivalent in gymnastics, she risks breaking her neck. The US superstar, 24, blamed "the twisties" for her dramatic exit from the team event at the Tokyo Games, where s...

A Singaporean table tennis player reduced to a wheelchair just a few months ago was left in tears Thursday after her surprise run at the Tokyo Olympics met a painful end in the semi-finals. Yu Mengyu, the 26th seed at the pandemic-delayed Games in ...

Australia's track and field team was briefly placed in isolation on Thursday as a coronavirus scare caused fresh jitters on the eve of the Tokyo Olympics athletics programme. Nearly 60 athletes and staff were confined to their rooms for more than t...

China's Zhang Yufei was ready to relax after winning the Olympic 200m butterfly on Thursday, but a last-minute change of plan meant she ended the day with two gold medals rather than one. On a hectic morning for the 23-year-old, Zhang snared gold i...

Police in Australia's largest city have requested military help to enforce a coronavirus lockdown as infections in Sydney reached a new record Thursday. Commissioner Mick Fuller said New South Wales police had asked for 300 Australian Defence Force...

Cambodia imposed fresh coronavirus restrictions Thursday for eight provinces bordering Thailand, clamping down on the movement of millions of residents to curb the spread of the highly contagious Delta variant. In recent weeks, scores of Cambodian ...

The Afghan government faces an “existential crisis” after the Taliban doubled their attacks following the February 2020 US deal with the insurgents, a watchdog report said Thursday.

Overjoyed Fijians have brushed aside a strict virus curfew and poured onto the streets of Suva to celebrate Olympic rugby sevens gold in an explosion of song, dance and fireworks. Children cheered, car horns honked and one older lady's celebratory ...

Malaysia's embattled leader was accused of treason and urged to quit Thursday after the king denounced his crisis-hit government for misleading parliament, a rare public rebuke from the revered monarch. Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin leads a scand...

A shallow 8.2 magnitude earthquake struck off the Alaskan peninsula late Wednesday, the United States Geological Survey said, prompting a tsunami warning. The earthquake hit 56 miles (91 kilometers) southeast of the town of Perryville, the USGS sai...

Paul O'Donovan partnered Fintan McCarthy to win Ireland's first ever rowing Olympic gold on Thursday and said it is fortunate for their neighbours there are coronavirus protocols in place otherwise they "would knock down their apartment". O'Donovan...

Scores of pickers move along a raised platform of rubbish, scooping up pieces of plastic with iron hooks, alongside cattle and hundreds of egrets also scouring the trash. The smell is rancid atop what the pickers dub "Yemen" -- a volcano-like mound...