France began as strong favourites, but started slowly and were rattled by an aggressive Mali. WNBA player Williams scored 14 points, with seven rebounds and six assists and help from Alexia Chartereau's 12 points as France took their win-loss re...

The 22-year-old finished 2min 21sec ahead of Frenchman Christophe Laporte after an epic 266.9 kilometre (165.4 miles) slog around the coastal city of Wollongong south of Sydney. Australia's Michael Matthews was third after a last-gasp sprint. Pre-...

The two might both be named for famous composers, but those offering their efforts in Mozart say that is where the similarities end. The group is staffed by volunteer army veterans giving humanitarian aid, medical evacuation and training Ukrainians...

Mayweather, now 45 and recently inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame, floored his opponent with a right hand at the end of the second round as his former welterweight foe Manny Pacquaio watched at ringside. The bell to end the round ...

After aborted attempts in 2004 and 2017, Bern is hoping to garner enough votes to "stabilise" Switzerland's old-age security system, under pressure as life expectancy rises and the giant baby-boomer generation reaches retirement age. The most contr...

The red-hot world number 30 triumphed in Washington and Cleveland in August and she produced a string of giant-killing upsets in the Japanese capital on the way to another title. Samsonova beat Wimbledon champion Elena Rybakina and two-time Grand S...

Marking its 10th year, the six-hour festival brought thousands to New York's Central Park and featured a sister show in Ghana's capital Accra, where performers included American R&B great Usher and British grime icon Stormzy. Global Citizen awards ...

The question gave her eldest son and successor, Charles III, an early taste of what he will have to confront as king, with feelings still running high about the toxic legacy of Britain's colonial past. At her death, the queen was head of state of 1...

In the early 1970s, when Gordon first fished the Spey as a "wee nipper", it never took long to catch a bite. But things have changed. "I would say there are now 20 percent, maximum, of what there were in the mid-80s," Gordon told AFP on a stretch o...

The 44-year-old head of state has pledged to push ahead with raising the retirement age having backed away from the explosive issue during his first five years in power. But having lost his parliamentary majority in June, the pro-business centrist ...

But "it just doesn't taste the same without a good crust", he said, adding that in any case such efforts could do little to counter the existential crisis he and other bakers are facing. "If the conditions don't change, then sooner or later a large...

Super Typhoon Noru was packing maximum sustained wind speeds of 195 kilometres (121 miles) an hour after an unprecedented "explosive intensification", the state weather forecaster said. The storm, the strongest to hit the Philippines this year, is...

For some, carob has long been relegated to the status of a less appealing substitute for chocolate. But in Cyprus, its thick brown pods are also eaten raw or ground up to make sweet syrups, spreads, toffees, drinks and as a sweetener, while its see...

Napoli forward Lozano sent the pro-Mexico crowd of 62,729 at the 1994 World Cup final venue into a frenzy with his 85th-minute strike. From a corner kick taken by Andres Guardado, a high ball flew Lozano's way and at full stretch he was able to lof...

For supporters of Russian President Vladimir Putin, Ukraine's alleged "genocide" of Russian speakers in the country's eastern regions is comparable with the actions of Nazi Germany. And that, they argue, requires "de-Nazification". Gerstein is ha...