The sheer number of stray animals -- dogs and cats both -- darting between people and lounging on public squares jumps out at most visitors to Turkey's ancient cultural capital. They could well be descendants of the dogs glorified in the first grai...

Along the way, the watering hole has become a home away from home where tattooed young people drink beer, roll cigarettes and mix and mingle in their mother tongue. "This bar never wanted to be a travelling bar... It was just to keep our community...

In a gruelling three-hour and 54-minute encounter, Cilic was under siege, having to save 12 of 18 break points while committing 66 unforced errors. The 19-year-old Alcaraz, seeded three and seen as the title favorite after the elimination of four-t...

But her latest investigation of whether the prime minister passed off other people's work as his own in his doctoral thesis has made her the target of a deluge of threats and leaked intimate photos she says are aimed at silencing her. Sercan has e...

Seven deaths occurred in the eastern Valencia region where the practice of releasing bulls into the streets for entertainment has sparked debate, with the other fatalities taking place in the regions of Madrid, Castilla y Leon and Navarra in the nor...

"This is my son, Marley, when he was 19 years old", Maritha Ogilvie tells AFP, holding a framed photo of a smiling young man, one of many that adorn the walls of her Stockholm apartment. "He was shot in the head sitting in a car with a friend", say...

'Bulldozer' PM vying to keep the left in power Andersson came to power in November 2021 with the aim of breathing new life into the Social Democrats and ended up leading the charge for the nation's historic NATO membership bid. Sweden's first woman ...

Though the floods that engulfed Aqilpur and its surrounding fields have receded from the highs of a week ago, the kilns are still surrounded by water. Most of those who lived on-site -- part of the country's millions-strong workforce known as "dail...

"Man, I was losing it in the locker room. Bro, I was going crazy. Yeah, I mean, that's my guy. So to see him post that, I was like, Do I retweet it as soon as he sent it? I was like, You know what, I'm going to be cool and act like I didn't see it a...

Long before Covid restrictions ravaged the economy, malnutrition and poverty stalked Cambodia's youth -- the legacy of decades of conflict and instability following the Khmer Rouge's genocidal rule in the 1970s. Food insecurity has worsened since R...

The 11th seed squeezed past the 28-year-old Belarusian 6-1, 5-7, 6-2, 4-6, 6-3 to set up last eight meeting with either Spain's Carlos Alcaraz or Croatia's Marin Cilic on Wednesday. The Monaco-based 21-year-old has performed consistently well at Gr...

Abe was shot dead on the campaign trail in July, and the government expects dozens of current and former heads of state to pay condolences at the September 27 service in Tokyo. But recent polls show about half of Japanese voters oppose the publicly...

Soon after it invaded in February, Moscow largely took control of the Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions of southern Ukraine and is now aiming to absorb them into Russia through referendums -- as it did with Crimea in 2014. Russia also blamed Western...

The magnitude 6.6 quake hit about 43 kilometres (26 miles) southeast of the city of Kangding in Sichuan province at a depth of 10 kilometres on Monday, according to the US Geological Survey. At least 65 people were killed, state media reported Tues...

However, the dollar lost some of its momentum against its major peers on profit-taking, with the euro finding some support ahead of an expected European Central Bank interest rate hike and sterling lifted by the election of a new prime minister. Ru...