The building in Changsha city, Hunan province -- which housed apartments, a hotel and a cinema -- caved in on Friday, sparking a massive rescue effort with hundreds of emergency responders. There has been no official confirmation of any rescues sin...

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi headed to Europe on Monday with New Delhi's refusal to condemn Russia's invasion of Ukraine set to be a key talking point in meetings with regional leaders.

LFI, the movement of far-left leader Jean-Luc Melenchon, struck a deal with France's green EELV party, politicians  from both sides said on Monday, as the left seeks to form a joint front against President Emmanuel Macron in upcoming parliamentary ...

The small, dark workshop of the medieval combat enthusiast and self-taught blacksmith is full of swords and blades at various stages of manufacture, and designs for different pieces of armour. A mannequin sporting metal shoulder plates stands forg...

India, which imports much of its military hardware from Russia, has long walked a diplomatic tightrope between the West and Moscow, and has called only for an immediate end to hostilities. "My visit to Europe comes at a time when the region faces m...

Romania and Slovakia have taken in hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian refugees fleeing the Russian invasion of their country. In Slovakia on Sunday, celebrated as Mother's Day in the United States, Biden will travel to the city of Kosice and villag...

Most of Shanghai's 25 million residents have been confined to their homes for weeks as the city battles a major Covid outbreak. Hundreds of thousands of virus-positive people have been taken to makeshift facilities as China does not allow them to qu...

The landlocked African nation was thrown into turmoil after long-time leader Idriss Deby Itno died fighting rebels last April. His son Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno seized control but promised free elections this year. Ahead of these, he had wanted a n...

The shooting occurred during a Sunday march called by a union in the capital Santiago as some protesters erected barricades and entered commercial premises, clashing with merchants. "There were clashes between street vendors who unfortunately used ...

Ukrainian authorities are planning further evacuations from Mariupol on Monday, following an initial operation to remove around 100 civilians from the besieged Azovstal steel plant. Meanwhile, in Brussels, EU energy ministers are holding emergency t...

The former allrounder spoke publicly for the first time Monday about the court battles to clear his name spanning 2012 to 2015. Interviewed on a podcast hosted by media company NZME, Cairns said the high-profile trials had consumed his life and tha...

The plant has endured a Russian blockade since Moscow's invasion on February 24, with stories of the harsh conditions in besieged Mariupol horrifying the world as a war which has seen thousands killed and millions displaced entered its third month. ...

"It's lie after lie after lie," former truck driver Alex, 73, said of Johnson, whose political survival could depend on the result of Thursday's local polls. "We get nothing. We live in bloody poverty, we get nothing back from all those years we've...

Civilians in Andriivka, a village about 60 kilometres west of Kyiv, are coming to terms with the devastation and trauma they suffered during the month they spent under Russian occupation. 

"Based on all the comments and the vitriol that folks spew over these two years, I just refuse to let my guard down," the African-American business owner told AFP. "On one of the removals, we were driving down the road with the Confederate statue o...