"Women died getting abortions back then," the 68-year-old told AFP, her voice breaking as she stood alongside scores of other protesters. "We were trying to protect women's rights, women's lives, and now they've taken all that away from us." The ...

By absorbing -- decade after decade -- a quarter of CO2 pollution and more than 90 percent of excess heat from global warming, oceans have kept Earth's terrestrial surface liveable. Our species has returned the favour by dumping mountains of plast...

The Kiwis dominated the match at a damp Mt Smart Stadium in Auckland, scoring four tries and justifying the number one ranking they will take into this year's World Cup. Wintry conditions did not dampen the enthusiasm among a sold-out crowd of 26,0...

This week, around a dozen activists sprayed a black liquid that looked like oil on the chancellery in Berlin and stood in front of the building with a banner that read: "Save oil instead of drilling." Dressed in orange high-visibility jackets and h...

Wuchkai, three hours away from the nearest town of any substance, can only be reached by a narrow, rutted dirt road -- with space for just one vehicle in places. Isolated, without electricity and water, the village sprawls over a large basin surrou...

Maxwell, who has played just seven Tests in his decade-long career, hit a match-winning 80 in the opening one-day international -- though the tourists went down to Sri Lanka 3-2 in the five-match series. He was added as an option for the Test serie...

Borrell flew in to Tehran on Friday night for a surprise visit aimed at getting the talks back on track three months after they stalled amid differences between Iran and the United States. "Diplomacy is the only way to go back to full implementatio...

The number of crashes and near-misses involving the two-wheelers has prompted Rome authorities to impose some order on a booming rental market that began two years ago. The havoc came to a head earlier this month when two US tourists attempted a ni...

Turkey's summer festival season is off to a politically charged start that foreshadows the cultural battles brewing in the polarised country in the run-up to next year's election -- the toughest of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's two-decade rule. ...

The USS Samuel B Roberts went down during a battle off the central island of Samar on October 25, 1944 as US forces fought to liberate the Philippines -- then a US colony -- from Japanese occupation. A crewed submersible filmed, photographed and su...

Airports and airlines are buckling under the pressure of demand pent up during the pandemic that has been unleashed on understaffed and stretched operations across Europe. Cabin crew A coordinated strike by Ryanair flight attendants in five European...

China is the last major economy still committed to a zero-Covid strategy, stamping out new cases with a combination of targeted lockdowns, mass testing and lengthy quarantines. The economic hub of Shanghai was forced into a months-long lockdown dur...

The four-month-old survived bombardments that killed around a third of animals on the meat and dairy facility in Mala Rogan, a village around 25 kilometres (15 miles) south of Ukraine's second city Kharkiv. It was a "nightmare" recalls owner Lyubov...

Czech star Palat swept in another crucial playoff goal with just over six minutes remaining to clinch a victory that keeps the best-of-seven series alive. Colorado could have wrapped up the title in front of their own fans at Denver's Ball Arena on...

After finishing a disappointing third in this year's Six Nations, behind France and Ireland, England were humiliated 52-21 at Twickenham by the Barbarians last weekend before heading to Perth to prepare for the first of three Tests on July 2. With ...