A French court on Wednesday fined seven people for a torrent of anti-Semitic abuse on social media aimed at the runner-up of the latest Miss France contest.

The coalition led by Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, which unseated veteran premier Benjamin Netanyahu in June, controls just 61 of the 120 seats in parliament, and counts on support from right-wingers, centrists, leftists and Islamists. It suffe...

The Asian heavyweights took only three points from their opening three fixtures in Group B, but gave themselves hope with a 2-1 home win over second-place Australia last month. The result may well have saved Moriyasu his job, with Japanese media sp...

Peng Shuai, an ex-world number one doubles player, purportedly made the claim about former vice premier Zhang Gaoli in a post on the Twitter-like Weibo on Tuesday. Peng reportedly alleged that Zhang, who is now in his seventies, had "forced" her in...

The world's top business and political figures are gathered in Glasgow this week for COP26, which is aimed at forging an ambitious new climate agreement. But Mexico's leftist leader -- also known as AMLO -- dismissively compared the summit to the W...

South African playwright and novelist Damon Galgut on Wednesday won the 2021 Booker Prize for “The Promise”, his third shortlisted novel which chronicles a family in his homeland from the late apartheid era through to Jacob Zuma’s presidency.

Could another "McConaissance" be on the cards, as the category-defying A-lister mulls a run for governor of his home state of Texas, potentially as a third-party candidate next year? "Look, it's been discussed. It's a possible avenue," McConaughey,...

"Today, it's a cemetery," said Guarachi, pointing to the rusted poles and cables from the old chair lifts. His eyes scan the 400-meter slope he once shot down at speed on a blanket of snow, now covered only in rocks. "It used to be full of skiers ...

Gardanne is one of the last remaining French coal-fired stations. Ever since the government announced the closure of its coal plants three years ago to help meet climate goals, anger and despair has spread across this community of 20,000, half an ho...

The meeting comes a day after a French court released a British trawler impounded for a week as part of the deepening dispute. David Frost will sit down with French Europe Minister Clement Beaune to continue negotiations after several days of tense...

The UAE, one of the world's top oil exporters, is building the Gulf region's first waste-to-power plants to ease its chronic trash problem and, at the same time, its reliance on gas-fuelled electricity stations. Green groups are unconvinced. They s...

Danny Fenster, managing editor of Frontier Myanmar, was held in May as he attempted to leave the country. He is currently on trial for allegedly encouraging dissent against the military and unlawful association, and faces six years in jail if convi...

China lays claim to Taiwan and has intensified efforts in recent years to isolate it on the international stage, bristling at any attempt to treat the self-ruled island as an independent state. Recent Chinese airforce incursions into Taiwan's air ...

"It will be a disaster... The closure is inevitable," Dinev told AFP on the outskirts of the Maritsa East complex in central Bulgaria. Bulgaria -- which joined the EU in 2007 but remains one of the bloc's poorest and also one of the most coal-depen...

Cleo Smith disappeared from her family's tent in remote Western Australia last month, before police discovered her alone in a Wednesday night raid on a home in the coastal town of Carnarvon -- just a short drive from where she went missing. A 36-ye...