Former FIFA President Sepp Blatter and France footballing legend Michel Platini were both cleared of corruption charges by a Swiss court on Friday.

AFP Sport looks back at the colourful careers of both men. Money made Blatter's World Cup go round Blatter, the supreme powerbroker of FIFA, never failed to stir debate. Forced to resign in 2015 days after winning a fifth presidential term, he has ...

France won the first Test 42-23 in Toyota last week, but Japan are ready to take to the skies after bringing towering locks Warner Dearns and Sanaila Waqa into the starting line-up. Both players stand over two metres (six feet, seven inches) tall, ...

Switzerland's Federal Criminal Court in the southern city of Bellinzona rejected the prosecution's request for a suspended prison sentence of a year and eight months, following a mammoth investigation that began in 2015 and lasted six years. Former...

Huge crowds of robed Muslim pilgrims prayed on Saudi Arabia's Mount Arafat on Friday, the climax of the biggest hajj pilgrimage since the pandemic forced drastic cuts in numbers two years in a row.

Ressa and her former colleague Rey Santos Jr face lengthy jail sentences, but the company said they will "avail of all legal remedies available to them", including taking the case to the Supreme Court. The ruling comes less than two weeks after Ph...

The former prime minister resigned in 2020, ending a tenure studded with headline-grabbing moments, from a turn as Super Mario to a controversial shrine visit that sparked regional anger. Here are some of the most memorable moments of Abe's record-...

Shinzo Abe smashed records as Japan's longest-serving prime minister, championing ambitious economic reform and forging key diplomatic relationships while weathering scandals.

Prices have doubled or even tripled since President Recep Tayyip Erdogan began an unorthodox economic experiment last year that has seen Turks' living standards suffer. The young mother hopes to bargain down the price on one of the skimpiest-lookin...

Like thousands of young Greenland Inuit, she was the victim of a policy to limit the birth rate in the Arctic territory, which was no longer a colony at the time but still under Danish control. According to an investigation by Denmark's public broa...

Observers stress that there is no end in sight for Moscow's more than four-month military campaign in Ukraine and do not rule out that Belarus could still be dragged into it, too. Artyom Shraibman, a non-resident scholar at the Carnegie Endowment f...

A 14-man Australia broke an eight-match losing streak against the English with their 30-28 win over the visitors in Perth last weekend. With both sides making a host of changes for the second Test, the two camps see the forward battle, particularly...

Would-be successors to scandal-ridden British Prime Minister Boris Johnson were readying Friday for what will be a prolonged battle, the day after an extraordinary exodus of Conservative ministers brought about their leader's downfall. 

"Every day it's like going out to hunt a lion," Luis Sacco told AFP in front of his electronics store in the capital Buenos Aires. Since Monday, prices have risen dramatically at shops and businesses across the country. On Saturday, economy minist...

Sophia Smith bagged a brace in the space of three minutes and Rose Lavelle, Kristie Mewis and Trinity Rodman scored second-half goals to complete the rout over the Jamaican team -- known as the "Reggae Girlz" -- who had surprised Mexico 1-0 in their...