The cancellation came after an American fossil company raised doubts about parts of the skeleton named "Shen", The New York Times reported on Sunday. Christie's said in a statement to AFP that Shen -- a 1,400-kilogramme (3,100-pound) skeleton -- wa...

Style has coursed through her veins since she was a young girl growing up in Soweto township, and for her the time is ripe for "African designers to shine" on the international platform. A decade-and-half ago, she founded the Johannesburg and Cape...

The White House denied it was seeking to smooth over frayed bilateral ties with Riyadh when a recent US government court filing granted immunity to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman over journalist Jamal Khashoggi's 2018 murder. For more, FRANC...

"I just felt alone, really alone and scared," he said. "I didn't even have my phone with me. I was afraid I wouldn't even get to say goodbye to my mother." Moments earlier he had been pouring drinks at Club Q, a long-established LGBTQ venue in Co...

A team of International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) experts on Monday are set to conduct an assessment of the shelling impact on Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant as the head of the UN's atomic watchdog denounced the "madness" of the weeke...

As the war in Ukraine enters its ninth month, Western sanctions are hitting Russia's economy hard. For more, FRANCE 24 is joined by Olivier Marty, Professor of Economics at the University of Paris.

The change, a dramatic turn of events for one of the largest media conglomerates in the world, was effective immediately, Disney said in a statement. "We thank Bob Chapek for his service to Disney over his long career," Susan Arnold, chair of Disne...

Iran has been shaken by two months of protests sparked by the death of Kurdish-Iranian woman Mahsa Amini, 22, who died in custody days after her arrest by the morality police for allegedly breaching the country's strict dress code for women. One of ...

The Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcano erupted underwater with a force equivalent to hundreds of atomic bombs, unleashing a 15-metre (50-foot) tsunami which demolished homes and killed at least three people on the Pacific island kingdom. The natural...

They identified the suspect as 22-year-old Anderson Lee Aldrich, and said he had used a rifle at the club, where partygoers were apparently marking Transgender Day of Remembrance, which pays tribute to trans people targeted in violent attacks. Eigh...

Irving, who was suspended by the Nets after his social media post linking to a movie condemned as anti-semitic sparked a furore, scored 14 points in 26 minutes on the floor. Kevin Durant led the Nets with 26 and Ben Simmons added 22 as seven Nets p...

One of Southeast Asia's biggest economies saw three governments change in as many years before this stalemate, and the next one faces major challenges including soaring inflation. No party has emerged with a clear majority. Veteran opposition leade...

Russian forces are pounding Ukrainian positions with artillery fire and in the eastern region alone launched almost 400 strikes on Sunday, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said in a video address. Russia withdrew its forces from the southern city of Kh...

The news threw a spanner in the works for investors who had grown hopeful of a gradual reopening after Beijing eased a number of virus-fighting measures earlier this month. The death of an 87-year-old man in Beijing on Sunday came as infections acr...

He and his wife Sabina have amused and confused their neighbours by stitching together South Korean flags into a 3.5-kilometre (2.2-mile) long banner that weaves a path from their home, along nearby streets and over a river into a neighbouring villa...