A total of 20 men are on trial over the November 2015 Paris attacks that left 130 dead, with a verdict in the mammoth court case expected on Wednesday, June 29. Only 14 have been in court, however, with all but one of the remaining six presumed to b...

NATO leaders were set on Wednesday to invite Finland and Sweden to join after Turkey dropped its objections to their membership. The alliance looked to revamp its defences at a summit dominated by the war in Ukraine. 

The trial over the November 2015 Paris attacks, the verdict of which is finally set to be announced on Wednesday, June 29, has been like no other the country has ever seen both in terms of its enormous scale and singular complexity, with 20 defendan...

A beaming Lukaku emerged from Linate airport in the early hours of Wednesday morning and gave his short but delighted response to the handful of reporters awaiting his arrival. The 29-year-old will undergo a medical later in the day before making h...

The census unfolding in the shadow of Mount Kilimanjaro is part of a project with a dual aim -- using biodiversity to make money, which will then help to preserve natural resources and support local communities. The 5,000-hectare (12,400-acre) terr...

Pre-pandemic, convicts could volunteer to clear the sewers of Thailand's capital -- which sits only 1.5 metres (five feet) above sea level and is perennially beset by flooding -- earning time off their sentences. But fears of spreading the virus me...

"It's hard to live alone, with nothing, living without family nearby," said Aurelio Capece Mudiua, who demobilised in 2020 after nearly four decades hiding around the Gorongosa mountains. "Some of us had children, and they (the fighters) died here ...

Mohammad Marei, 25, died from a bullet wound to the chest, the Palestinian health ministry said. The Palestinians' official Wafa news agency said he was killed during an Israeli raid in the town. The Israeli army said it conducted overnight "counte...

England were thumped 52-21 by a French-heavy 14-man Barbarians side in a warm-up to their three-Test Australia tour, which came on the back of a sub-par Six Nations campaign, where they won just two of five games. While England coach Jones admitted...

The hosts were 68 for two at lunch at the picturesque Galle International Stadium, which saw some rain in the morning. Skipper Dimuth Karunaratne was on 25 and Angelo Mathews on 15 at the break in their effort to rebuild the innings. The left-hand...

"We just didn't trust the Chinese government," she told AFP, using a pseudonym. She was not the only one. Government estimates show hundreds of thousands of people quit Hong Kong in the years that preceded the handover for a new life overseas -- m...

The world's children are facing stark global challenges like never before: From the two-year Covid pandemic to climate change, to on-going global conflict, including war in Europe, as well as a worldwide cost-of-living crisis, a global food crisis, ...

The new FLUGT ("flee" in Danish) Refugee Museum of Denmark, in the small town of Oksbol on Jutland's west coast near the German border, focuses primarily on German refugees, as well as others who have come to Denmark over the years. Exhibits includ...

Faltering form, an unpopular coaching team and, this week, a Covid outbreak, have the rugby-mad nation questioning whether the All Blacks could lose their perfect home record against Ireland or even the three-Test series. Ireland are close to full ...

At least 51 migrants have died after being trapped inside a sweltering tractor-trailer truck found abandoned in Texas as two Mexican nationals were charged in US federal court. The incident marked the greatest loss of life on record from a human tra...