While some of the major French and British museums interviewed by AFP, including the Louvre, the National Gallery and the Tate in London, are keeping a low profile on the issue, others are calling for stronger protective measures against such acts. ...

After dominating most of their quarter-final in Whangarei, it took until the final quarter for the French to cut loose, scoring four of their five tries after leading 10-3 at halftime. Speedy right winger Grisez scored the only try of the first hal...

Xi's choice to visit Yan'an -- a site inextricably linked with Communist China's founder Mao Zedong -- was an important, deliberate indication of the themes of his next five years at the helm, analysts said. Xi has centralised and personalised pow...

In Berlin, she is unemployed, like the 16 other Ukrainian women with whom she is learning German in a course aimed at helping them integrate into society. The 47-year-old is one of more than a million Ukrainians who have fled to Germany since Russi...

The Phillies, who were the last National League team to qualify for the playoffs, erased a 5-0 deficit against Houston's two-time Cy Young Award-winning pitcher Justin Verlander to hand the Astros their first defeat of this post-season. Realmuto, w...

LeVert and Donovan Mitchell each scored a game-high 41 points as the Cavaliers improved to 4-1 while Jaylen Brown and Jayson Tatum each had 32 to lead the Celtics. "I knew it was coming," LeVert said of his big night. "I put in a lot of work. I was...

With his round glasses and white kippa placed crookedly atop his greying hair, 46-year-old Ben-Gvir presents an affable figure. But to his detractors, the lawyer turned lawmaker is a pyromaniac whose politics threaten to set the country ablaze. "I...

"Brazilians know who the liar is," said Lula, as the two locked horns over minimum wages and the leftist's history of corruption allegations, sticking to the personal attacks and themes seen throughout the campaigns. "Stop lying Lula, stop lying. I...

Nalgae pounded the archipelago nation's main island of Luzon with maximum winds of 95 kilometres (59 miles) an hour after making landfall on the sparsely populated Catanduanes island before dawn. Heavy rains triggered by the approaching storm began...

Abbas, a former dentist from northern Israel, had emerged as an unlikely kingmaker following Israel's March 2021 elections, throwing his support behind a motley coalition which collapsed after little more than a year. But the leader of Raam, the Un...

"More than ever, Israel needs leadership with security experience," he has said during the campaign ahead of Israel's election on Tuesday, its fifth in less than four years. The 63-year-old, an elite military officer with a relaxed, deliberate mann...

The squalid camp, 50 kilometres (30 miles) north of the capital Amman, is home to some 80,000 Syrian refugees, according to the United Nations. Half of the camp's residents are children, and many have no memory of Syria. "I was hoping to be at hom...

"It's the best time to make people laugh," said the 39-year-old, whose stand-up routine has been a hit in Rio de Janeiro in recent weeks as the country nervously awaits Sunday's runoff between President Jair Bolsonaro and rival Luiz Inacio Lula da S...

Here are three key factors analysts say will determine the outcome. Rejection Millions of Brazilians hate Bolsonaro, Lula or both -- and that rejection vote will play a decisive role, analysts say. Four years ago, Bolsonaro ran as an outsider, tapp...

Nalgae pounded the archipelago nation's main island of Luzon with maximum winds of 95 kilometres (59 miles) an hour after making landfall on the sparsely populated Catanduanes island before dawn. Heavy rains triggered by the approaching storm began...