The 65-year-old -- who last year made an unsuccessful bid for the presidency as a reformist and "political prisoner for seven years" -- went on trial in Tehran on Saturday, said the judicial authority's news agency Mizan Online. "Mostafa Tajzadeh's...

Images posted on social media showed a police officer restraining a man on the ground inside the terminal as the emergency alarm sounded in the capital's main airport. Police said the man was taken into custody and was being held at a station in th...

Israeli police said Sunday they had arrested a suspect in a shooting attack on a bus in Jerusalem's Old City that wounded eight people, two critically.

Net income leapt 90 percent year-on-year for the world's biggest oil producer, which clocked its second straight quarterly record after announcing $39.5 billion for Q1. "While global market volatility and economic uncertainty remain, events during ...

Net income leapt 90 percent year-on-year for the world's biggest oil producer, which clocked its second straight quarterly record after announcing $39.5 billion for Q1. "While global market volatility and economic uncertainty remain, events during ...

The man accused of stabbing Salman Rushdie at a literary event pleaded not guilty to attempted murder charges Saturday, as the severely injured author appeared to show signs of improvement in hospital.

At the same time every day, the river's almost century-old dam is opened and water rushes under the bridge, to the sound of music by Finnish composer Jean Sibelius. It is a popular attraction especially for Russian tourists. Even Catherine the Grea...

Kyiv and Moscow exchanged blame on Saturday for fresh shelling around the Zaporizhzhia plant, Europe's largest nuclear facility, which is in Russia's control and has come under fire repeatedly in the past week. Read FRANCE 24’s coverage of the day...

The Zaporizhzhia plant in southeastern Ukraine has been occupied by Russian forces since March, and Kyiv has accused Moscow of basing hundreds of soldiers and storing arms there. During his televised address on Saturday, Ukrainian President Volodym...

Poland's Eighth-seeded Hurkacz needed two hours to claim a 5-7, 6-3, 6-2 victory over his Norwegian opponent, who had dropped just one set all week. But his workload was minor compared to that of unseeded Spaniard Carreno Busta, who needed three ho...

A soldier racing through a frontline town in a drab pickup truck may take a direct hit only to be saved by a miracle. An elderly woman slumbering in her apartment is tossed across her bedroom -- spared from the havoc next door by a cracked partitio...

The machine was lumbering through a pasture outside the village of Maidan -- around 20 kilometres (12 miles) from the frontline with Russian forces -- when it struck a mine, according to farmer Pavlo Kudimov. One front wheel was wrenched off and th...

The former guerilla and his partner have steadily increased their grip on power since he returned to the nation's top office in 2007, particularly via constitutional reforms that removed presidential term limits. This style of government "concentra...

The reputed home of the biblical Garden of Eden, Iraq's swamplands have been battered by three years of drought and low rainfall, as well as reduced water flows along rivers and tributaries originating in neighbouring Turkey and Iran. Vast expanses...

Duniu is just one of a growing number of animals being signed up for traditional medicine in China -- care their masters say is less invasive and comes with fewer side effects than conventional treatments. In one Beijing practice, pets of all shape...