Sadiqa Madadgar's social media looked much like any other successful young Afghan influencer's until Taliban militants stormed into Kabul and upended her dreams. The return of the hardline Islamist group has sent a shockwave through Afghanistan's s...

After dominating the electric vehicle market and throwing his hat into the billionaire space race, Tesla boss Elon Musk announced the latest frontier he's aiming to conquer: humanoid robots. The irascible entrepreneur said Thursday he would have an...

Syria regime shelling has killed eight children and a woman in the country's last major rebel bastion of Idlib in just two days, a war monitor said Friday. Artillery fire early Friday morning on the village of Kansafra in the northwestern stronghol...

The Paralympic flame arrived in Tokyo on Friday as virus cases hit fresh records nationwide just four days before the Games begin. Japan's daily infections topped 25,000 for the first time on Thursday, with the number of severe cases also higher th...

Taliban fighters in Afghanistan have shot and killed a relative of a Deutsche Welle journalist while hunting for him, the German public broadcaster said. The militants were conducting a house-to-house search for the journalist, who now works in Ger...

China passed a sweeping privacy law aimed at preventing businesses from collecting sensitive personal data Friday, as the country faces an uptick in internet scams and Beijing targets tech giants hoovering up personal data. Under the new rules pass...

Scorching heat has caused power prices to soar in Spain, leading to renewed tensions in the country's leftist coalition government over how to lower ballooning electricity bills. A recent heatwave which sent temperatures soaring as high as 47 degre...

Former Wallabies star Toutai Kefu fought back tears Friday as he relived a traumatic burglary that left four members of his family injured, but said he did not hate the teenage intruders. The 47-year-old current Tonga coach was rushed to hospital o...

Romania will soon conduct a census of its endangered brown bears using DNA for the first time, with tensions raised between villagers fearing further attacks and conservationists warning against looser hunting laws. Incidents with hungry bears desc...

Chinese astronauts edged into space on Friday to add the finishing touches to a robotic arm on the Tiangong space station. The foray, the second spacewalk in two months and relayed on state television, is part of China's heavily promoted space prog...

New Zealand extended a national Covid-19 lockdown Friday as case numbers continued to rise and a Delta variant outbreak spread from Auckland to the capital Wellington. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said the initial three-day lockdown, which would h...

European business leaders have warned that Hong Kong's stringent quarantine measures have left its residents "indefinitely trapped" in the city, threatening its status as an international business centre. In a rare open letter to chief executive Ca...

Shares in China Telecom surged nearly 20 percent in their Shanghai debut Friday after the world's biggest public offering of the year, coming after the company was delisted in the United States amid China-US tensions. China's biggest fixed-line ope...

Mexico's Saul "Canelo" Alvarez said Thursday he will fight unbeaten American Caleb Planet for the undisputed world super middleweight boxing crown on November 6 in Las Vegas. The showdown will see Alvarez defend his World Boxing Association, World ...

With Serie A getting underway six weeks after Italy's triumph at Euro 2020, the 2021/22 season is in full swing across Europe. AFP Sport previews the pick of the action on the continent, as Lionel Messi waits for his Paris Saint-Germain debut, his ...