Omar Laabidi remembers being repeatedly beaten by a 12-year-old Jabeur, who this month surged to victory at the Madrid Open at the age of 27 -- the first WTA 1000 trophy of her career. "We used to call her Roger Federer," he said. Laabidi was talk...

Football's governing body FIFA made history Thursday by selecting Japan's Yamashita alongside Stephanie Frappart of France and Rwanda's Salima Mukansanga on a list of 36 referees for the World Cup. Three women officials were also named on a list of...

Emboldened under Hindu nationalist Prime Minister Narendra Modi, aided by courts and fuelled by social media, the fringe groups believe the sites were built on top of Hindu temples, which they consider representations of India's "true" religion. Cu...

France's new government lineup will be announced later on Friday, the presidency said, with the new cabinet set to meet on Monday. 

Ten cities across China have sunk billions of dollars to build eight new stadiums and renovate two others for the Asian Cup next summer. But with the country sticking to its rigid zero-Covid policy and its biggest city, Shanghai, only just now tent...

"We don't create the associated CO2 that comes from creating a new car and we're not scrapping a perfectly valid old car. It's win-win," said Matthew Quitter, founder of London Electric Cars. London Electric Cars is one of the companies capitalisin...

Despite the procedure being legal in the European Union member, Mirela Cavajda is now being forced to have a termination in neighbouring Slovenia. The case comes amid a political storm in the United States over fears abortion rights there are being...

Swedish cult director Ruben Ostlund, who won the 2017 Palme d'Or for "The Square", is back with "Triangle of Sadness". He is joined by two other films from rising stars with immigrant backgrounds: "Boy from Heaven", by Sweden's Tarik Saleh and Dan...

Stefano Pioli's side are two points ahead of reigning champions Inter Milan and only need to draw to claim their first league crown since 2011, and they look almost guaranteed to do so after a hugely impressive run-in. Consecutive wins over tricky ...

In Barentsburg, in Norway's Svalbard archipelago, relics of a bygone era -- a bust of Lenin, a sculpture with Cyrillic script declaring "Our goal - Communism" -- bear witness to Russia's longstanding presence. The town's population peaked at around...

The war has seen Sweden drastically ramp up its military readiness and take the "historic" step this week to apply for NATO membership, reversing two centuries of military non-alignment. "You realise this is actually for real -- I'm not here on som...

After failing to take Kyiv following the launch of the invasion in February, Russia has focused its attacks on the south and east of Ukraine, devastating towns and villages with artillery fire. Moscow's forces have been trying to take complete cont...

The Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR Uhlenhaut was sold to a private collector, the classic car auction company said in a statement, fetching almost triple the previous record price for a car, which was set in 2018 by a 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO that went for over ...

India is the "Country of Honour" at this year's Cannes Film Festival and is "the largest film making country in the world." Joining FRANCE 24 is India's Information and Broadcast Minister, Anurag Thakur. With more than 2000 films produced annually, ...

Ukranian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that the renewed Russian offensive in Ukraine’s Donbas had turned the eastern region into “hell”. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken accused Russia on Thursday of weaponising food and holding grain...