A court had already ordered the company in 2020 to pay compensation to more than 3,300 plaintiffs in a civil case, and an appeal of that ruling was rejected by France's supreme court earlier this year. Some 30,000 people in France reported headache...

More than 40 children were among those killed in the stampede on October 1, one of the deadliest disasters in football history. Police had fired tear gas to quell a pitch invasion after a match in East Java. FIFA chief Gianni Infantino met Indones...

French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday met the parents of a 12-year-old girl whose brutalised body was found in a trunk in a killing that shocked France, his office said.

Last month, Neymar endorsed hardline conservative Bolsonaro as he fights to win reelection in his October 30 runoff battle against leftist ex-leader Lula. "Neymar has the right to choose whoever he wants to be president. I think he is afraid that i...

Sanna Irshad Mattoo was one of four journalists working for Reuters news agency that took home the prestigious award for feature photography this year. The 28-year-old has won plaudits for documenting life in Indian-administered Kashmir, a disputed...

With Iran still shaken by women-led protests over the death of Mahsa Amini one month ago, Elnaz Rekabi flew back to a Tehran airport after the competition in South Korea. In an Instagram post and comments at the airport, Rekabi has apologised over ...

Rekabi wore only a headband during the Asian Championships in Seoul on Sunday, in what was seen by some a gesture of solidarity with month-long protests in Iran over the death of Mahsa Amini after her arrest for allegedly violating the Islamic dress...

Australia on Wednesday announced plans to build renewable energy zones, wind projects and underwater electricity interconnectors, as it looks to build its renewable power capabilities and bring more clean energy into its national grid.

Fans from the Latin American nation are expected to make up one of the largest -- and most exuberant -- contingents of foreign supporters. "We like to sing, drink and dance all the time," said superfan Hector Chavez -- better known as Caramelo -- w...

International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief Rafael Grossi expects to return "soon" to Ukraine, he told reporters, amid negotiations to establish a security protection zone around the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. Meanwhi...

But not everybody agrees that it should be so. The subject is up for debate at the local market, where the city's few remaining residents stock up on food and clothes for the winter to the sounds of artillery. One shopper, Yulia, said she believed...

Fighting for re-election in an October 30 runoff against veteran leftist Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, the far-right president has been swept up in a firestorm over his remarks about the underage Venezuelan girls, whom he called "very pretty". "If my ...

Yet this stretch of South Africa's west coast has also become a battleground, pitching mining firms against environmentalists fearful that one of nature's last wild treasures is being bulldozed away. Diamonds, zircon and other minerals have long be...

John Lee, a Beijing-anointed former security chief, gave a debut policy speech that focused heavily on reviving the economy and maintaining security while recognising that tens of thousands of people had left a city that serves as a gateway to China...

Guerrilla attacks and forced disappearances were daily facts of life on both sides of the Himalayan republic's decade-long Maoist insurgency. The conflict ended in 2006 with a peace deal that brought the rebels into government and promised justice ...