The city of Tokorozawa outside Tokyo plans to buy the 3.5-hectare "Totoro Forest" for 2.6 billion yen ($19 million), with crowdfunding covering just a small portion of that, a city official told AFP. "The area is one of the places that director (Ha...

A group of around 195 nations are aiming to adopt a new global deal to arrest declining biodiversity and safeguard nature at the COP15 summit, which has been delayed three times and was originally scheduled to take place in southwest China's Kunming...

From July 1, the majority of player diagnosed with concussion are set to miss their next match. Players will only be able to return to the field seven days after a concussion with the approval of an independent doctor, with others having to wait fo...

The Korea Satellite Launch Vehicle II, a 200-tonne liquid fuel rocket informally called Nuri, lifted off from the launch site in Goheung at 4:00pm (0700 GMT). "Nuri has completed its flight according to plan. Engineers are now analysing its flight ...

Britain’s railway workers on Tuesday began the network’s biggest strike action in more than three decades, as a cost-of-living crisis caused by surging inflation risks wider industrial action. FRANCE 24's Bénédicte Paviot tells us more. 

Gopalkrishna Gandhi, 77, a diplomat turned politician said he had declined the request of the 17-party alliance to be their nominee for the largely ceremonial role. "I am most grateful to them. But having considered the matter deeply I see that the...

2022-06-21 08:06 'Months into this war, Odesa is a major flashpoint still'

Moose Wala -- also known by his birth name Shubhdeep Singh Sidhu -- was shot dead in his car in the northern state of Punjab last month. The 28-year-old was a popular musician both in India and among Punjabi communities abroad, especially in Canada...

The 25th anniversary is approaching of that rainy day and the midnight handover to China on July 1 that the BBC at the time called "the epilogue of empire". For Patten, now 78, the memory of his departure is still vivid. "It was a big wrench. I ha...

Outside his office in this small leafy city in the Donetsk region, people were on Monday filling up bottles from a large water barrel. The situation "is complex, because the front in recent weeks has come closer, to within 15-20 kilometres (9-12 mi...

2022-06-21 07:05 'The Russian's are saying this threatens their national interest'

The 52-year-old has constant cough, allergies and skin rashes, and doctors have told him the vile-smelling sludge that has also wiped out marine life in one of Dhaka's main waterways is to blame. "Doctors told me to leave this job and leave the riv...

The giant freshwater stingray, which measured four metres (13 feet) from snout to tail, was caught last week and released back into the wild after being fitted with a tag to track its behaviour. The monstrous bottom-dweller beat the previous record...

Starting his car under star-dotted skies unpolluted by light, he works alone in the pre-dawn chill, marking sightings or absences in a planner, interrupted only by the crackle of a walkie-talkie. The bird he is looking for is called "toki" in Japan...

Ukraine acknowledged difficulties in fighting in its east as Russian forces captured territory and intensified pressure on two cities ahead of an EU summit this week expected to welcome Kyiv’s bid to join the bloc. Follow FRANCE 24’s liveblog fo...