Year-on-year price growth hit 6.2 percent this month, statistics authority Insee said based on preliminary data, a new increase in inflation after it slowed in August and September. Food especially grew more expensive, at almost 12 percent, in a bl...

The storm unleashed flash floods carrying uprooted trees, rocks and mud overnight in mainly rural communities around Cotabato, a city of 300,000 people on Mindanao island. Many residents were caught by surprise by the rapidly rising floodwaters, Na...

But that was where the 34-year-old French scientist found herself after giving up her job last year to focus instead on campaigning for more action on climate change. "I don't want to be here, I'm afraid of the consequences... but we are desperate,...

The author of the popular "Metro 2033" novel, set in the ruins of the Moscow metro system following a nuclear war, has been in the crosshairs of the authorities for months. Even in the centre of the European Union, where he was attending the Frank...

"Obviously, this is not something that I thought I would have any time to do", 46-year-old Prime Minister Katrin Jakobsdottir told AFP at an event this week for the book's launch. But it was "quite liberating to be working on this project during Co...

The 1,400-kilo frame, composed of about 80 bones, will be the first T-rex skeleton auctioned in Asia, according to Christie's, which has not given an estimate for the lot. Dubbed Shen, meaning god-like, it will be on display for three days before b...

Over the last four years, President Jair Bolsonaro’s government has made steep budget cuts to Brazil’s public universities. In the run-up to the second and final round of presidential elections, his government announced a new freeze on ...

As the two sides prepared for their clash in Perth on Thursday, one Zimbabwe fan wanted not just victory but also payback for a perceived betrayal six years ago. "As Zimbabweans we won't forgive you... you once gave us that Fraud Pak Bean instead o...

China has been accused of grave human rights abuses in Xinjiang against the Uyghurs dating back to at least the 1990s, with the United States branding Beijing's treatment of the mostly Muslim minority a "genocide". A damning UN report released in A...

North Korea fired two short-range ballistic missiles toward the sea on Friday in its first ballistic weapons launches in two weeks, as the U.S. military warned the North that the use of nuclear weapons “will result in the end of that regime.”

Relations between China and Taiwan have been on ice since 2016 with Beijing severing official communications and government visits between the two sides scrapped. But Taiwan has made an exception after Tuan Tuan, a male panda that was gifted to the...

Both teams receive one point so Ireland, who upset England by five runs at the same ground on Wednesday, moving to second in the Group 1 table. They sit alongside table-toppers New Zealand, who face Sri Lanka in Sydney on Saturday, on three points....

The Moscow-installed head of the Crimea region said on Friday that the evacuation of civilians from occupied Kherson has been "completed". Earlier on Thursday night, US President Joe Biden condemned Russian President Vladimir Putin's commentary a...

Pakistan suffered a shock one-run loss to Zimbabwe in Perth on Thursday, four days after they went down to arch-rivals India in their tournament opener in similarly agonising fashion. One of the pre-tournament favourites, they now must win all thei...