Clashes have broken out between the majority Hindu and minority Muslim communities during religious processions in several parts of India in recent weeks. To offer perspective on the on-going communal violence in India, France 24 is joined by Dr. Mu...

Later repaired, the red Gibson's destruction at the French capital's Rock en Seine festival in 2009 was "a cult moment" in music history, said Jonathan Berg, a guitar expert and cofounder of the Artpeges gallery holding the auction. With a starting...

The number of bomb blasts in the country has significantly declined since the Taliban ousted the US-backed Afghan government in August, but the jihadist Islamic State group has claimed several attacks since then. Kabul police spokesman Khalid Zadra...

Macron is facing a close race in the run-off on Sunday against far-right veteran Marine Le Pen, with analysts warning that low turnout could prove a wildcard even though most polls show Macron in the lead. If he is re-elected, "in the subsequent da...

French far-right leader Marine Le Pen registered her highest score in the first round of the 2022 presidential election in the overseas French department of Mayotte, an Indian Ocean archipelago located 8,000 km from Paris.

The embattled Johnson last week became the first modern British leader to be fined for breaking the law, after police ruled he had breached lockdown curbs in 2020. But he has weathered the initial storm and has doggedly defied calls to resign. He ...

Kabul police spokesman Khalid Zadran told AFP that two improvised explosive devices were placed outside the Abdul Rahim Shahid high school in the capital's western Dasht-e-Barchi neighbourhood. He earlier tweeted that three blasts had rocked the sc...

The three-time Grand Slam champion stunned the tennis world when she stepped away from the sport in March, with the multi-talented 25-year-old coy about her plans. But Icons Series organisers revealed that she would be among the sports stars compet...

Life is a struggle for many in the Kroo Bay slum, where pigs mingle with stray dogs in the debris-strewn alleys of the shantytown, which straddles an open sewer. But war in faraway Ukraine has made life harder still. Fuel prices, as well as the pri...

The Lotte Marines right-hander sparked a frenzy earlier this month when he became the first pitcher to deliver a perfect game in Japan in 28 years, as well as the youngest person ever to do so in the baseball-mad country. A perfect game in baseball...

There will be no humanitarian corridors to evacuate civilians in Ukraine for a third consecutive day on Tuesday because there has been no agreement from the Russian side, Kyiv's deputy prime minister Iryna Vereshchuk said Tuesday. Follow our live b...

Lions and winged cows with human heads, horses and bulls with a goat's horn, kneeling men and women and other mythological figures decorate the work, created by the Mannaeans who lived in northwestern Iran in the first millennium BC. The 51 square...

Their curiosity will soon be satisfied, however, as for the first time in almost half a century, the temple this month will open its doors to the general public. The building, one of the most mysterious in the US capital, is usually only open to me...

"They've painted over it," Ovchinnikov, 84, said during a recent stop at an abandoned shop in a village field near Borovsk, his town of about 10,000 people two hours' drive from the Russian capital. Ovchinnikov had painted a blue-and-yellow Ukraini...

Chinese growth numbers for the first quarter of 2022 exceeded expectations on Monday but the government warned of "significant challenges" ahead. Shanghai, the country's economic centre, is in the throes of an intense Covid-19 lockdown with restric...