A total of 283 firefighters in 65 vehicles, with the help of groups of bystanders, had battled overnight to bring the fire under control. And two firefighting planes and two helicopters were still in operation early Sunday. On Saturday, the Greek...

The toll was expected to rise with over 300 people injured, some of them seriously, and eyewitnesses said they had seen unrecovered bodies in the facility near the major southern port of Chittagong. Several hundred rescuers were battling the blaze ...

The 42-year-old trained doctor fled Kharkiv in eastern Ukraine in March "with her backpack and her daughter", her sister Olena Nikitoshkina, 36, who speaks fluent German, told AFP. Nikolska would like to stay in Germany, but is having trouble findi...

The trio blasted off in a Long March-2F rocket at (0244 GMT) from the Jiuquan launch center in northwestern China's Gobi desert, said state broadcaster CCTV, with the team to spend six months expanding the Tiangong space station. Tiangong, which me...

Highly-rated WBC title holder Haney, a clear favourite, successfully defended his belt for a fifth time and in the process took the WBA, IBF and WBO straps off Kambosos with a unanimous verdict in Melbourne. Victory made him the first undisputed li...

The multi-award-winning singer-songwriter will perform at the finale of a day-long pageant lauding the 96-year-old monarch's record seven decades on the throne, as a long weekend of festivities across the UK concludes. Sheeran is one of numerous "n...

Hun Sen, one of the world's longest-serving leaders, has ruled Cambodia for more than 37 years and turned the nation into a one-party state at the 2018 general election, winning every parliamentary seat. Critics and rights groups have accused him o...

Judges awarded Fulton the 12-round victory by scores of 119-109, 120-108 and 120-108 at the Armory in Minneapolis, Minnesota. "I made a hell of a statement tonight," Fulton said. "I told you I would make an easy fight depending on how I felt, and I...

Hailing from the Red Sea city of Port Sudan, Jaber belongs to the Beja people, a group of nomadic herders and breeders with unique languages, culture, food and music. They have borne the weight of disenfranchisement especially under autocratic pre...

Pyongyang has doubled down on upgrading its weapons programme this year despite facing crippling economic sanctions. "Our military detected eight short-range ballistic missiles fired from the Sunan area in Pyongyang, North Korea into the East Sea,"...

Mohammed Basheer said he had to incinerate hundreds of his dead lambs after the outbreak devastated livestock across the West Bank, leaving him with more than just a stinging financial loss. For Basheer, the ordeal underlines the unique challenges...

Japan's "Monster" Inoue and "Filipino Flash" Donaire will meet again in Saitama for a unification bout that sees the unbeaten Inoue's WBA and IBF world titles and Donaire's WBC belt on the line. Inoue claimed a unanimous points win when the two met...

Drawing on her contacts in the city, Booth helped the young woman find a doctor willing to perform an illegal abortion -- in what she believed would be a one-off "act of goodwill." "But word must have spread," the 76-year-old said in an interview f...

"We have way too much inventory right now," said Ginny Pasqualone, chief executive of Sparkledots, a children's clothing manufacturer. "It's important that we have a large selection of merchandise that our clients can choose from," she said, but st...

"I'm concerned that if I don't buy one now, I may never have the choice again," Sandhu, a member of the Dawson Creek Sportsman's Club, told AFP. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's proposed freeze on pistol sales -- which he announced in the wake of a ...