40 countries meet on Ukraine aid The defence ministers of 40 countries are expected at a security summit at a US airbase in Germany to discuss boosting arms supplies to Ukraine and ensuring the country's longer-term security once the war is over. Wa...

The 19-year-old is due to play in the Madrid Open this week as she builds up to the French Open but said she felt she required a "new training model". The Lawn Tennis Association's (LTA) head of women's coaching, Iain Bates, will work with Raducanu...

The 24-year-old Singaporean-born yachtsman may never have experienced sailing in the Southern Ocean but history-making female mariner Dee Caffari, who competed in the 2009 Vendee Globe, believes he has the qualities to thrive in perhaps the toughest...

The incident is the latest in wave of unrest rocking the West Bank and Israel as the Muslim holy month of Ramadan and the Jewish holiday of Passover overlapped this month. The Palestinian health ministry said 20-year-old Ahmed Ibrahim Oweidat "succ...

AFP Sport looks at five talking points from the first half of the season. Smiling assassin Jos Buttler has smiled his way to the top of this season's batting chart with three sparkling centuries for Rajasthan Royals. The softly-spoken Englishman ha...

The high-level delegation arrived in the Pacific nation for talks with Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare last Friday, three days after Beijing announced the deal had been signed. A draft version of the pact, leaked on social media in March, prompted...

Almost three years into Lebanon’s trifecta of economic, social and political crises, Lebanese youths are desperate to move abroad. For them, leaving the country means finding better opportunities for the future. Studies show that this belief is on...

French President Emmanuel Macron faced the daunting challenge of uniting a deeply divided nation Tuesday after winning re-election in a battle against Marine Le Pen that saw the far right come its closest yet to taking power.

Beijing on Tuesday launched mass coronavirus testing for nearly all its 21 million residents, as fears grew that the Chinese capital may be placed under a strict lockdown like Shanghai.

Packed together in white parcels, the titles rescued from Kharkiv fill up what was once the children's reading room. They are just a fraction of those at the shop's publishing house in the eastern city under Russian fire, she said. "Our warehouse ...

A soldier rushes up to the rockstar from the band Okean Elzy for a selfie. "We came to raise morale, to see the guys. Maybe I will sing something to them," the 46-year-old told AFP, guitar in hand. "Their mood is great," he said. "I mean, they're ...

The US on Tuesday hosts a gathering of more than 40 countries at Germany’s Ramstein Air Base for talks focused on bolstering Ukraine’s defence capabilities against a potentially decisive Russian onslaught in the east. Follow our liveblog for a...

The CinemaCon summit draws Tinseltown executives to giant casino ballrooms each year, where owners of theaters -- from global chains to tiny independents -- are treated to never-before-seen footage and A-list appearances. After a subdued edition la...

"The country has been thrown back in every sense, for me it's been set back 40 years," said Venediktov, who joined the station at its founding in 1990 and steered it through the 20 years of Vladimir Putin's rule, until the Russian president sent tro...

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un vowed to strengthen the country’s nuclear weapons programme during a speech at a high-profile military parade in Pyongyang, state media reported Tuesday.