A China Eastern Airlines aircraft with 133 people on board crashed in the mountains in southern China on Monday while on a flight from the city of Kunming to Guangzhou, state media reported.

To justify the invasion of Ukraine, Vladimir Putin claims to be "denazifying" the country. Russian propaganda charges that Ukraine is now ruled by the nationalist groups who have been fighting in Donbas since 2014. FRANCE 24 reporters James André...

Shaheen had Australia in trouble at 8-2 in the third over of the innings when he trapped David Warner lbw and then had Marnus Labuschagne edge behind to wicketkeeper Mohammad Rizwan for a duck two balls later. At the break, opener Usman Khawaja was...

Three weeks before France’s presidential election, far-left leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon on Sunday rallied tens of thousands of supporters on the streets of Paris, framing himself as the anti-Emmanuel Macron candidate by vowing to lower the retireme...

Two of the vessel's 86 passengers, who were seeking work in neighbouring Malaysia, were killed when it capsized Saturday, said Rully Ramadhiansyah, spokesman for the Belawan naval base on Sumatra island. The captain and three crew members all survi...

A partial answer is set for April 4 after closed-door, virtual negotiations approve a nearly 3,000-page report detailing options for drawing down greenhouse gases and extracting them from the air. "The impacts are costly and mounting, but we still ...

The finance hub has struggled to maintain China's zero-Covid policy during an Omicron-fuelled outbreak. After the highly transmissible variant fuelled a fresh wave of cases in January, authorities quickly put in place flight bans from eight countri...

Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthi group fired missiles and drones at Saudi energy and water desalination facilities, causing a temporary drop in output at a refinery but no casualties, the Saudi energy ministry and state media said on Sunday.

The visitors kept the same team that drew the second Test in Karachi last week, while Pakistan brought in fast bowler Naseem Shah in place of all-rounder Faheem Ashraf. The three-Test series is deadlocked at 0-0 after the first Test in Rawalpindi a...

Hundreds of thousands of the mostly Muslim Rohingya community have fled Buddhist-majority Myanmar since 2017 after a military crackdown that is now the subject of a genocide case at the United Nations' highest court in The Hague. US Secretary of St...

His father and his cousin were killed when their car was hit by gunfire two days after Russia's invasion. Volodymyr was shot in his jaw, his back, his arm and his leg. "He can't walk yet, but the doctors told him that he'd be able to step on his f...

Tatum and Brown spearheaded a superb all-round offensive performance for Boston, whose defense successfully bottled up the threat of Denver’s reigning NBA MVP Jokic, who was held to 23 points. Apart from a brief spell in the first quarter, Boston...

Becker will stand trial at Southwark Crown Court accused of concealing his Wimbledon and Australian Open trophies, several properties and around £1.8 million ($2.3 million). At the time of his bankruptcy in June 2017, the German's debts were estim...

When Bardem and Cruz, who have been married for over a decade, were both tapped for Oscars, the 53-year-old actor could hardly contain his excitement. "The fact that (Penelope's) nomination was for a role in Spanish... seems really extraordinary, ...

Hours earlier it looked like the 24-year-old American ranked 20th in the world wouldn't be able to take the court for what would turn out to be the greatest win of his career. But after treatment to numb the pain and against the advice of several i...