Qatar has repeatedly faced criticism over conditions for migrant workers, but insists it has made major improvements in recent years. The YouGov poll surveyed more than 17,000 adults from 15 countries -- mostly in Europe, but also the United States...

The collection left to the Kunstmuseum in 2014 by Cornelius Gurlitt, whose father Hildebrand Gurlitt had worked as an art dealer for the Nazis, included works looted from Jewish owners during World War II. A new exhibit, "Taking stock. Gurlitt in R...

Enchanted by its dirt streets, horse-drawn carriages and brightly coloured houses nestled in green hills, the environmentalist and nature lover became a regular visitor. In 2006, he even bought his first house there: a bright blue building known to...

Now as Cairo gears up to open "the largest archaeological museum in the world" at the foot of the pyramids of Giza in November, Egypt's former antiquities minister Zahi Hawass told AFP that he will soon demand the return of three of its greatest los...

It is also an apt metaphor for two centuries of Egyptology, flush with tales of brilliant foreign explorers uncovering the secrets of the Pharaohs, with Egyptians relegated to the background. "Egyptians have been written out of the historical narra...

Syed Emdadul Hoque conducts exorcisms but at the same time is helping to bust taboos around mental health treatment in the South Asian nation, where disorders of the mind are often rationalised as cases of otherworldly possession. Hundreds of peop...

Muifa is the strongest tropical cyclone to hit Shanghai -- home to more than 25 million people -- since record-keeping began in 1949, state broadcaster CCTV said. However, there were no immediate reports of any deaths or casualties. At least 426,0...

On that day in the winter of 2017, the terrified young man had already been locked up for two years in war-torn Syria's largest and most notorious prison, Sednaya. Having been largely deprived of salt all that time in his meagre prison rations, he...

The woman, who is believed to be the mother of the two dead young children, was arrested in South Korea on murder charges following a request from New Zealand, police in both countries said. She will now face extradition proceedings, they added. ...

The big reveal had been teased for months by company officials and organized as a celebration of the 58-year-old model. The event, organized for Ford employees and Mustang mavens, featured pulsating music, slickly produced videos on wide screens and...

The western island is just 110 kilometres (70 miles) from Taiwan, and a Chinese missile fired during the drills last month landed not far from Yonaguni's shores. "Everyone is on edge," Shigenori Takenishi, head of the island's fishing association, ...

Volodymyr Zelensky visited the Kharkiv region on Wednesday, which has been "almost" entirely "de-occupied" following a lightning counter-offensive by Ukraine, and promised "victory". On the diplomatic front, European Commission President Ursula ...

Nicknamed JLo, the 68-year-old secured a new five-year tenure in the tightest-ever vote held in the oil-rich country. Lourenco leads the People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) party, which has ruled since independence from Portugal i...

The inauguration will be held on the historic palm tree-lined Praca da Republica square in the centre of the capital, Luanda. Large numbers of police and military forces patrolled the streets ahead of the ceremony, AFP correspondents saw -- a prese...

Xi and Putin will be joined by the leaders of India, Pakistan, Turkey, Iran and several other countries for the meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) in the Uzbek city on Thursday and Friday. The main summit day will be Friday, but...