The coach, who was appointed in December 2011, led the team to La Liga glory in 2014 and 2021, as well as taking Atletico to the Champions League final in 2014 and 2016, where they finished runners-up to rivals Real Madrid on both occasions. Howeve...

Within seconds of pulling up at Stamford Bridge, Varane was aware his appearance at the World Cup was in jeopardy. The former Real Madrid centre-back may have got lucky, with an initial diagnosis of a small hamstring tear giving him a chance of mak...

Ferguson told reporters that New Zealand would need him and fellow quicks Trent Boult and Tim Southee to be at their best to overcome England at the Gabba on Tuesday night. "What you always expect from England is that they come out very hot," said ...

Brazilian president-elect Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva called for "peace and unity" after narrowly winning a divisive runoff election Sunday, capping a remarkable political comeback by defeating far-right incumbent Jair Bolsonaro -- who has yet to acce...

A French-Australian hostage kidnapped in eastern Chad has been released and is in "good health", the Chadian Prime Minister announced in a tweet Sunday.

The space station is one of the crown jewels of Beijing's ambitious space programme, which has landed robotic rovers on Mars and the Moon and made China only the third nation to put humans in orbit. The module named Mengtian, or "dreaming of the he...

The world's longest passenger train -- an assembly of 100 connected coaches measuring nearly two kilometres -- wound through breath-taking scenery in the Swiss Alps Saturday. The Rhaetian Railway (RhB) announced that it had beat the world record for...

Lebanon's outgoing head of state, Michel Aoun, left the presidential palace Sunday, a day before his mandate expires without a designated successor, deepening the country's political crisis. His six-year term was marred by mass protests, a painful e...

South Koreans flocked Monday to memorials honouring the 154 people killed in a crowd surge at Halloween celebrations, as authorities faced accusations that lax crowd control had caused the disaster. FRANCE 24's Yena Lee and Constantin Simon report f...

Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva narrowly defeated President Jair Bolsonaro in a runoff election on Sunday that marked the end of Brazil's most right-wing government in decades. "There are no signs that Jair Bolsonaro is going to accept defeat. He's said...

The 2022 midterm elections will be held on November 8, 2022. All 435 US House seats and 35 of the 100 Senate seats are at stake. FRANCE 24's Fanny Allard travelled across the US to look at some of the key issues shaping the minds of voters. She repo...

Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who rose from poverty to Brazil's presidency before crashing into disgrace in a corruption scandal, made a spectacular comeback as leader of Latin America's biggest economy at the age of 77.

Muay Thai allows some moves that are banned in other forms of kickboxing, such as elbow and knee strikes, and fighters wear little safety gear. The sport secured Olympic recognition in 2021 -- but whether the Games will ever host a Muay Thai event ...

At least five explosions were heard in the Ukrainian capital between 8:00 am (0600 GMT) and 8:20 am, according to AFP journalists. Kyiv had already been hit on October 10 and 17 by drones. After Monday's blasts, mayor Vitali Klitschko said in a Te...

Russia resumed its blockade of Ukrainian ports on Sunday, cutting off urgently needed grain exports to hungry parts of the world in what US President Joe Biden called a “really outrageous” act.