Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelenskiy told the UN Security Council on Tuesday that Russia must be held accountable over allegations of war atrocities as the West prepared to expand sanctions to include a ban on all new investments in Russia. FRANC...

Ukraine's President Volodymr Zelensky demanded "accountability" at the UN Security Council on Tuesday for Russian "crimes" carried out during Moscow's invasion of his country.

Britain's seven-time world motor racing champion is currently producing a documentary about his life and career, but would be happy to see a feature-length film too. "We have this documentary that we're working on and I think you have to just do ev...

The calls for war crimes investigations and trials over Moscow's conflict in Ukraine have intensified after horrific photographs emerged of corpses in roads and in mass graves in Bucha, near Kyiv, after Russian troops retreated from the devastated t...

The Spaniard suffered from double vision after a heavy crash in Indonesia last month and missed last week's race in Argentina. Marquez also suffered from diplopia, or double vision, at the end of last season. "We have some work to do after missing...

US, EU ready new sanctions The United States, European Union and G7 are set to toughen sanctions on Russia following allegations of war crimes in the Ukrainian town of Bucha. A source in Washington says the US will ban all new investment in Russia. ...

Van Gaal announced at the weekend that he had been receiving treatment for prostate cancer for the last two years but that he still hoped to lead the team at the finals that kick off in Qatar in November. It will be 59-year-old Koeman's second time...

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett lost his razor-thin parliamentary majority on Wednesday after a lawmaker from his nationalist party quit, leaving his government with a more precarious grip on power but in no immediate danger of collapse. 

Scarce supplies of food and fuel, along with record inflation and blackouts, have inflicted widespread misery in the country's most painful downturn since independence from Britain in 1948. Public anger is at a fever pitch, with crowds attempting t...

Pat Cummings' side won the three-Test series 1-0, lost the one-day internationals 2-1 and rounded off an incident-free trip with victory in the lone Twenty20 international. AFP Sports highlights five things we learned from the first full tour to Pa...

The reform to the penal code applies to those who "reproduce and transmit messages or communications originating or allegedly originating from said criminal groups that could generate anxiety and panic among the general population." The measure, w...

Some of Russian President Vladimir Putin's most vocal defenders are pan-Africanists -- advocates of the doctrine of African unity and anti-imperialism that flowered at the height of the Cold War. Putin "wants to get his country back," Kemi Seba, a ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's administration has long been accused of trying to silence critics, and activists say they have been targeted for harassment since he took office in 2014. Aakar Patel said he was stopped from boarding his flight to th...

Idit Silman's announcement left Bennett's coalition, an alliance of parties ranging from the Jewish right and Israeli doves to an Arab Muslim party, with 60 seats -- the same as the opposition. "I tried the path of unity. I worked a lot for this co...

There were two wives, at least six mistresses and countless lovers -- with a tendency to abandon women when they became ill, a voracious appetite for prostitutes, and some eye-popping age differences (his second wife was 27 when he married her at 79...