Kravchuk terminated his contract with Russian side Torpedo Moscow and fled to Manchester following Russia's invasion of his homeland. City have received permission from the Home Office and football authorities for Kravchuk to work with their under-...

Situated in a leafy upmarket suburb of The Hague, the Euthanasia Expertise Centre is the only one of its kind, giving information, assisting medical doctors and providing euthanasia as end-of-life care, which was legalised in a world first in the Ne...

The 19th edition of the regional sporting event is still on despite nearby Shanghai battling one of China's worst Covid-19 outbreaks since the pandemic began. Organisers say a virus control plan that "learns from the successful experience" of the B...

Late Thursday hundreds of people tried to storm the home of Gotabaya Rajapaksa, the current president and one of four politically active brothers. In a night of violence one person was injured and 45 were arrested. AFP profiles the clan, which has ...

Russian forces are continuing to bomb residential areas in Kharkiv, Ukraine's second-largest city, on a daily basis. The shelling has reduced much of the city to a wasteland and nearly all the residents have fled. FRANCE 24's Catherine Norris...

The aviation hub, a key gateway for people arriving in Asia, joins other countries in the region that have recently dropped travel curbs as they shift to living with Covid-19. Previously, only travellers from a handful of places could enter Singap...

After a tense campaign dominated by Russia's invasion of neighbouring Ukraine, Hungarians will vote in a general election on Sunday with polls giving the edge to incumbent nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban.

After initially vowing they would avoid a city-wide lockdown, officials changed tack this week and announced a phased shutdown which divided China's financial centre in two so authorities can test its 25 million residents. A four-day lockdown of th...

"I was just a few months old when I fed my first reindeer," the 24-year-old laughed, saying she "pretty much always knew" she would follow her father and grandfather into herding. "I managed one and a half weeks living in a city before I switched t...

"You would always know you were near Shimo la Tewa Prison," said Stephen Mwangi, a government scientist who has lived for decades in the coastal region where thousands of inmates are incarcerated in a maximum security jail. The smell wasn't comin...

Nearly 25 years after the death of Nigerian music legend Fela Kuti, his son Femi and grandson Made are taking his Afrobeat sound to the United States. With their double album "Legacy +", the father and son duo have been nominated for this year's Gr...

Since last summer, thousands of migrants and refugees -- mostly from the Middle East -- have come knocking only to be turned away by Poland, which sees their arrival as a kind of "hybrid warfare". Warsaw and others in the West have accused the Bela...

But for the first time in its 12 years in office Orban's Fidesz party will face a united opposition coalition. Fidesz's poll lead is narrow and "all options are on the table", Bulcsu Hunyadi, analyst with the independent Political Capital institute...

"It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Patrick Demarchelier on March 31, 2022 at the age of 78," said a post on his official Instagram account accompanied by three photos. The announcement did not provide a cause of death or othe...

The draw for this year's World Cup takes place in the shadow of Doha's skyscrapers on Friday, with the focus for the evening on the actual football after a build-up dominated by the many off-field issues surrounding the awarding of the tournament.