“Vaccination is a simple but profound way of promoting the common good and caring for each other, especially the most vulnerable," Pope Francis said in a new video promoting COVID-19 vaccines.

One of the major difficulties for any new government will be boosting the economy — one of the poorest in the world — as Western countries ponder cutting crucial development assistance to the country.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson will introduce the scheme to MPs on Wednesday but it has already been criticised for not going fr enough by multiple lawmakers.

Some former soldiers in the West have questioned the purpose of the enormous military sacrifices in the 20-year campaign, as troop withdrawals enabled the Taliban to take control.

"An attack on LGBTIQ people is never just that. It always coincides with broader implications for human rights and democracy more broadly," writes Paul Jansen from OutRight Action International.

The EU's foreign policy chief says dialogue is necessary as the Taliban have "won the war" but does not imply formal recognition of the new Afghan regime.

It comes amid concern the swift Taliban takeover of the country will reverse progress made over the last two decades.

Miles Routledge is no longer in Afghanistan after he was able to get a space on a British army flight, along with hundreds of others fleeing the country.

Poland has told the European Union that it will shut down a chamber at its Supreme Court devoted to disciplining judges, which the EU's top court said was illegal.

Archaeologists say the discovery of a well-preserved skeleton in a Pompeii tomb is the first confirmation that Greek was used in Ancient Rome alongside Latin.

A COVID vaccination centre near Toulouse in France was vandalised and around 500 vials were destroyed.

Swiss researchers say they have calculated the mathematical constant Pi to a new world-record level of 62.8 trillion figures.

The number of job vacancies rose to over 950,000 — the highest level since records were started in 2001.

Just seven people were on board the A-400M aircraft -- which could take up to 150 people -- as it left Kabul on Monday night.

It wasn’t until 2004 that Sudoku became a global hit after a fan from New Zealand pitched it and got it published in the British newspaper The Times

"At this very moment, the Taliban are walking from door to door in Kabul. The local personnel of the EU missions are in imminent danger in these hours."

An Afghan national eligible to go to Holland said foreign missions need to make alternative arrangements as it's impossible to get to Kabul Airport and the US is not allowing flights to land.

At their first news conference in Kabul since taking power, the Taliban sought to give assurances on women's rights, the safety of Afghan workers, and media freedom.

Hundreds of firefighters have been deployed to tackle the blaze which has now burnt through 5,000 hectares.

Macron warned in a televised address on Monday that "the destabilisation of Afghanistan also risks leading to irregular migratory flows towards Europe".

Injured earthquake victims continued to stream into Les Cayes’ overwhelmed general hospital, three days after the earthquake struck.

In a defiant address the US President defended the US troops pullout despite the Taliban's takeover, saying that keeping a US presence in Afghanistan was no longer a US national security interest.

Judges stated that scholarly research should not be judged by the courts and overturned the ruling against the book's co-authors.

Stsiapan Latypau was reportedly given an eight-a-and-half-year sentence after his trial resumed on Monday.

Rescuers are still searching for a missing person after a sudden flood swept away a bridge into a river in Bavaria's Valley of Hell, killing one woman.

A look at Afghanistan's tumultuous history.

Miles Routledge has been branded a 'disaster tourist' online for flying into Kabul last Friday, just days before the Taliban captured the city.

Misleading rumours falsely suggested that France's Ambassador to Afghanistan had left Kabul, but he had instead moved the embassy's operations to the airport.

A former Bosnian Serb soldier and police officer has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for war crimes committed during the 1995-95 conflict.

Hundreds of people could be seen running alongside a U.S. Air Force transport plane before takeoff, in a widely shared video that captured the sense of desperation.

Spain’s interior minister has defended sending unaccompanied child migrants back to Morocco and denied accusations by rights groups that the returns breach international law.

The question comes as the Taliban completed a rapid takeover of the country.

On Monday the head of Angela Merkel's conservative party and possible successor to the German chancellor called the pullout NATO's "biggest debacle" since its creation.

"We lost everything we achieved in these 20 years in a blink of an eye," a female journalist in Kabul told Euronews.

Critics of Joe Biden say his decision to withdraw has undone two decades of work in the country and jeopardised the safety of the Afghan people.

Little is known about the leadership of the militant group but here's a look at the four men at the top.

A 7.2 magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Haiti on Saturday, with the epicenter 12 kilometres northeast of Saint-Louis du Sud, the US Geological Survey said.

The death toll from severe floods and mudslides in coastal Turkey has climbed to at least 72, the country's emergency and disaster agency said on Monday.

The US President speaks out following Monday's scenes of panic at Kabul airport as thousands of desperate Afghans tried to secure a place on a flight out of the country.

Trudeau is hoping to capitalise on his government's successful vaccination campaign against COVID-19 to win a majority of seats in Parliament.

The call from the more than 70 countries came hours after Talian insurgents stormed capital Kabul.

The killing of an Afghan comic by Taliban militants this week has raised fears of revenge killings, as the Taliban take control of the country.

On Saturday, hundreds of Tihany residents demonstrated against redevelopment plans around the lake shore.

Gerd Muller, who took Bayern Munich and the West Germany national team to the top of the footballing world in the 1970s, has died aged 75.

A warehouse where fuel was illegally stored exploded in northern Lebanon on Sunday morning, killing at least 28 people and burning dozens.

Both countries have withdrawn their ambassadors after Israel protested over a new law in Poland that restricts the rights of Holocaust survivors or their descendants to reclaim property seized by the country’s former communist regime.

Afghanistan's president Ashraf Ghani has fled the country, as Taliban fighters entered Kabul on Sunday and sought the unconditional surrender of the central government.

Taliban fighters are entering Kabul from all sides says Interior Ministry

Venezuela's government and opposition discuss ending sanctions and holding elections in a bid to end a crippling political and economic crisis.

President Obrador wants Spain to apologise for the conquest that caused the near-extermination of its indigenous peoples but Spain has refused.