At a cemetery in a hard-to-find corner of South Korea's Jeju island, there are 13 tombstones bearing the Ko family name -- Kim's relatives through his mother, Ko Yong Hui. Jong Un is the third member of the Kim family to rule North Korea, following...

A large section of the 10-storey Metropol building that was under construction in a busy street in the city of Abadan crashed to the ground on May 23, leading to one of the country's deadliest disasters in recent years. "The total number of fatalit...

On their three-day visit the IOC delegation will also look at road access in and around Sapporo, which was the first Asian city to host a Winter Olympics in 1972. A city official told AFP that the visit is "part of our continued dialogue" with the ...

The fourth season, "Borgen -- The Kingdom, the Power and the Glory", premieres internationally on Netflix on Thursday. Viewers last saw former Danish prime minister Birgitte Nyborg the day after her brand-new political party scored a sensational wi...

"We have great universities in Cardiff, and we have great talents here, we're using that talent to create something that's really special for the customers," say Boden. Boden is the head of Starling, which has just opened the Cardiff site, where ab...

"All bodies have now been found," Civil Aviation Authority spokesman Deo Chandra Lal Karn told AFP. Air traffic control lost contact with the Twin Otter plane shortly after it took off from Pokhara in western Nepal on Sunday morning and headed for ...

The bill must still be passed by Parliament, with the ruling Liberals holding only a minority of seats. "We're introducing legislation to implement a national freeze on handgun ownership," Trudeau told a news conference, joined by dozens of familie...

If passed, Silver Lake will take a substantial stake in NZR's commercial rights, introducing an unprecedented outside influence to the sporting body which owns the mighty All Blacks. AFP breaks down details and implications of the investment: - Wh...

Taiwan's defence ministry said late Monday it had scrambled its own aircraft and deployed air defence missile systems to monitor the latest Chinese activity. In recent years, Beijing has begun sending large sorties into Taiwan's defence zone to s...

Now he hopes his love and involvement in jazz -- along with the intervention of musicians drawing public attention to his case -- will help him escape execution for a murderous crime he insists he did not commit. LaMar, who turns 53 on Tuesday, is ...

With Wall Street closed for a holiday there were few catalysts to help extend the gains enjoyed in recent days, allowing inflation and borrowing costs to take centre stage. Crude prices built on Monday's advance after the European Union reached a d...

Yet half a century and two stints in prison later, he is still alive, leading an uneventful existence as Lebanon's first and only political refugee. Now a frail, grey-haired man, Kozo Okamoto is still wanted in his native Japan but remains somethin...

"I can't describe the joy," said the 18-year-old, who bought his first skateboard in 2020 and had only been able to practice on street corners -- until now. "I'm going to come a couple of times a week." The free, open-air facility opened over the w...

More than 65 percent of the country's 4.3 million eligible voters are expected to vote in favour of dropping the exemption, the latest opinion poll published on Sunday suggested. Analysts' predictions have however been cautious, given the low voter...

It's time for "2TK" to set flight from the plush seaside resort and return to Canada, a feat of endurance that fascinates scientists and delights local birdwatchers. Identifiable by a plastic band on one ankle bearing the name 2TK and a metal one w...