But the sporting great was "rewarded" for his acting turn in Warner Bros' Looney Tunes/basketball sequel with the one prize no performer wants. The annual tongue-in-cheek Razzies, or Golden Raspberry Awards, "honor" the worst in film, and are hande...

Four days' journey, more than 1,000 kilometres (600 miles) travelled and at the end of the line, tonnes of food and other essentials delivered to people in need. The operation of the Deutsche Bahn (DB), the German rail company, echoes the famous A...

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky called on Qatar and other energy-producing countries Saturday to boost their natural gas output so that Russia understands it cannot “use energy ... to blackmail the world”. US President Joe Biden is set ...

Speaking at a reception hosted by the Governor General of The Bahamas in Nassau, William -- whose official title is the Duke of Cambridge -- noted the upcoming 50th anniversary of the former colony's independence from Britain. "And with Jamaica cel...

Taal volcano, which sits in a lake south of Manila, exploded with a "short-lived" burst at 7:22 am (2322 GMT), the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said in a statement. It warned further eruptions were possible, which it said cou...

Like many communities around Europe, the people of Diss, population 8,000, want to do their bit to help Ukraine, identifying with the immediacy and proximity of the conflict in a different way to wars in Syria, Afghanistan or further afield. "It's ...

"They understood that it was something very serious," said Bilger, 37, a single mother who lives in the German hillside town of Kronberg, near Frankfurt. "And then pretty quickly all three of us understood that we were going to help any way we coul...

Millions of Chinese in affected areas have been subjected to city-wide lockdowns by an Omicron-led outbreak that has sent daily case counts creeping ever-higher, though they remain insignificant compared to other countries. Shanghai, however, has a...

Opinion polls had pointed to a decisive win for Labour Prime Minister Robert Abela, who has campaigned on his handling of the coronavirus pandemic and his party's economic record during nine years in power. But Labour is also still tainted by the h...

West Africa's regional bloc Friday said it would maintain sanctions on Mali over the military rulers of the Sahel country delaying a return to civilian rule after a coup.

As part of one of the world's most influential and critically lauded alternative rock bands, Hawkins was known for his on-stage charisma and classic rock-inspired beats, which he once said were influenced by legends like Phil Collins and Queen's Rog...

The 73-year-old known for collaborations with Spike Lee and Quentin Tarantino, and a regular feature in blockbusters from Marvel to Star Wars, had previously secured only one Oscar nomination for "Pulp Fiction." Jackson was presented with a statuet...

Texan Bakari Henderson, 22, was set upon by a group of mostly Serbian men on the holiday island of Zakynthos in 2017 in a horrific attack captured on video. With the White House now pressuring Athens for action, insiders say the case is typical of ...

"The Foo Fighters family is devastated by the tragic and untimely loss of our beloved Taylor Hawkins," the band said in a statement on Twitter. "His musical spirit and infectious laughter will live on with all of us forever," they added. The stat...

The possible shift came ahead of a planned meeting by US President Joe Biden with Ukrainian refugees in Poland and talks with his Polish counterpart Andrzej Duda in Warsaw before he gives a speech on the "brutal war", the White House said. Russian ...