Hallgrimsson is an icon in his country: a beloved poet and naturalist, the craftsman behind the renewal of the Icelandic language, and one of the founders of Icelandic national romanticism. He died in 1845, nearly a century before the country final...

The vast Southeast Asian archipelago has for weeks been fighting wildfires blanketing parts of Borneo and Sumatra with smog, with haze also contributing to air pollution in Malaysia, Singapore, and the Philippines. The orangutan pair had been unde...

Ahead of his appearance in the third installment of the "Dune" franchise in December, Pattinson will hit screens in the dark thriller, the first movie for which he has a producer credit and a first feature film from 30-year-old director Lance Oppenh...

Defense Minister Ernesto Justiniano said "pyrotechnic material" was stored at the base in Viacha, southwest of Bolivia's administrative capital La Paz. The exact cause of the blasts, which happened at around 2:30 pm (1830 GMT), was under investigat...

The hazardous smoke has led to an increase in respiratory problems, forced schools to close, and has been drifting to neighbouring countries including -- Malaysia, Singapore, and the Philippines. Here's what to know: - Where are the fires? - Mos...

The superstar sisters, whose 14 Grand Slam doubles titles include two US Opens, rallied from a break down in the third set and led the deciding 10-point tiebreaker 5-0 but fell 6-3, 6-7 (6/8), 7-6 (10/7). Venus, 46, and Serena, 44, hadn't played Gr...

Paris city officials have demanded the foreign ministry investigate Argentina House, one of dozens of homes run by foreign nations or French institutions on an international campus in the French capital. The Cite Universitaire campus, or Cite U, wa...

Cries of sick children and the hiss of oxygen machines fill the air at Dhaka's Shishu Hospital, where Rima Akter keeps a vigil beside her nine-month-old son. "Just an hour ago, a child died, and they wheeled him out in front of us," 30-year-old Akt...

That businessman, Daniel Vorcaro, forged contacts with a sprawling network of politicians of every stripe, top judges and high-ranking officials before landing in jail for one of Brazil's biggest-ever financial scandals. Vorcaro told police he had ...

The Panama Canal Authority said low water levels in the two artificial lakes that feed the canal forced it to act. The number of vessels allowed through the waterway connecting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans will be progressively lowered from 36 p...

"The Tetris Company was not involved in the creation of ‘Build the Wall’ and did not authorize or license the Tetris brand or intellectual property for the game," Tetris told AFP in a statement. "We are currently reviewing the matter," the sta...

In an executive order aimed at helping cattle ranchers combat livestock losses, the president gave his Interior Secretary Doug Burgum 90 days to "make a determination as to whether the gray wolf and the Mexican wolf have met the recovery criteria fo...

Aimed at "a more accurate representation" of continental landmasses, the resolution was supported by 164 countries while the United States voted against it and six other states abstained. The new map -- known as the Equal Earth cartographic project...

The funeral of the convicted war criminal who oversaw the massacre, the Bosnian Serb military leader Ratko Mladic, takes place on Monday after his death in prison on August 27. Srebrenica would be ruled a genocide by an international court. Here i...

The South African Weather Service told AFP there is a "60% chance of rain and thunderstorms" at Soccer City stadium during the match. "That (bad weather) will not affect how we play. We need to be a little bit better in all areas than last week to ...