Michail Antonio left West Ham manager David Moyes unimpressed with his celebration when he became the club's record goalscorer in the Premier League but his double in the 4-1 win over Leicester "shut the manager up." Antonio grabbed a cardboard cut...

Five Afghans who were evacuated from Kabul to France were placed under surveillance due to suspected links to the Taliban and one of them is in custody for failing to comply with a stay at home order, the French interior minister said on Tuesday (Aug...

Hong Kong will scrutinise past films for national security breaches under a tough new censorship law announced on Tuesday in the latest blow to the financial hub's political and artistic freedoms. Authorities have embarked on a sweeping crackdown t...

Covid infections are soaring in the sparsely populated Pacific territory of French Polynesia, with health authorities reporting 54 deaths from the virus over the weekend as the Delta variant spreads among a largely unvaccinated population. More tha...

Israeli warplanes bombed Hamas sites in Gaza in response to incendiary balloons launched from the Palestinian enclave that caused brush fires in southern Israel, its military said early on Tuesday.

Senegal's Interior Minister Antoine Felix Abdoulaye Diome is up to his knees in water, in a suburb of the West African country's capital, surveying flood damage. He's inspecting a home in the eastern Keur Massar district: The first floor and cour...

"Are you feeling OK?" surgeon Georges Bwelle asks the prisoner lying on a makeshift bed. He picks up his scissors and forceps and returns to operating on a small hernia. The music playing in the room next door in the rural jail grows louder, and ...

Spooked by the pandemic and streaming platforms, the embattled movie theater industry called on new "Ghostbusters" and "Spider-Man" films as it vowed to fight back at a major trade summit in Las Vegas Monday. CinemaCon -- which typically sees Holly...

U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris on Tuesday accused China of coercion and intimidation to back unlawful claims in the South China Sea, in her most pointed comments on China on a visit to Southeast Asia, a region she said was critical to U.S. securi...

President Joe Biden has declared a major disaster in the southern US state of Tennessee and approved federal funding after devastating floods over the weekend left at least 21 dead, the White House said in a statement said Tuesday. Tennessee was hi...

"There are still huge crowds around the edge of Kabul's airport", FRANCE 24 Senior Reporter Catherine Norris-Trent reports from the Afghan capital on the ongoing evacuation effort and life in the city under Taliban control. G7 leaders will meet virt...

Leaders of the Group of Seven countries were set to discuss on Tuesday whether to seek an extension to a August 31 deadline for the evacuation of thousands of people trying to flee Afghanistan and whether to recognise or sanction a Taliban governme...

As the Paralympic Games begin, Japan's efforts to improve accessibility and inclusion are in the spotlight, with many arguing there is still plenty of work to do. Some 4,400 athletes with impairments will compete in Tokyo at the world's biggest par...

Thailand on Tuesday decriminalised kratom, a tropical leaf long used as a herbal remedy but which some health regulators around the world have criticised as potentially unsafe. Kratom -- scientific name Mitragyna speciosa -- is part of the coffee f...

Scores of journalists are among the tens of thousands of people trying to flee Afghanistan following the Taliban takeover, fearful of violent reprisals from the militants. Despite their assurances, the Islamist group's return to power is seen as a ...