Europe has been swept by weeks of devastating wildfires fuelled by dry conditions and a historically hot summer that has already contributed to the deaths of thousands of people. France, Greece, Portugal and Spain were also battling major fires ove...

Hopes that the Federal Reserve will not tighten policy next month boosted equities last week -- pushing the S&P 500 and Nasdaq to records -- as closely watched reports pointed to a softening labour market and inflation easing, even if it is still we...

The site in Kishangarh, a major marble-processing hub in the northwestern state of Rajasthan, is blanketed in white slurry and discarded stone generated when marble and granite blocks are cut and polished. Spread across 82 acres (33 hectares), it r...

Bangladesh pulled off a massive upset in Darwin on Sunday when they crushed the world's top-ranked side, who were at full strength, by nine wickets. Bangladesh had never won a Test in Australia before. "We were poor this Test match," McDonald said...

Sri Lanka trail by 363 runs with five wickets in hand, with Sonal Dinusha on 14 and Niroshan Dickwella eight. After posting 462 all out, India's attack rammed home the advantage with some disciplined bowling on a pitch offering plenty of assistanc...

The 51-year-old was found guilty last year of murdering her husband's parents and an elderly aunt in 2023 by serving them a beef Wellington lunch laced with lethal death cap mushrooms. Patterson was also convicted of the attempted murder of her hus...

At another beloved restaurant known for slow-cooked mutton and beef stews, they discovered meat stored in filthy containers, greasy floors and open windows that could let in insects and crows. Both eateries were ordered shut in the toughest crackdo...

RC Lens won the Champions' Trophy (French Super Cup) against Paris Saint-Germain (1-0). With Zinédine Zidane watching on, the Lens side held out for an hour despite being a man down.

"We are walking on people's houses," said 35-year-old Thompson Akingboye, moving along a narrow strip of sand only accessible by boat. Nicknamed "The Happy Place," Ayetoro -- home to around 10,000 people -- was founded in 1947 by a group of communi...

Marlene Nino, a 70-year-old retired lawyer who lost her sister Doris, said she felt grateful for the volunteers who helped recover some of her photos from the ruins. "We're left with the memories," she told AFP as she showed a picture of herself wi...

The clash in Darwin had been touted as a mismatch after Bangladesh crumbled to an innings defeat in their only warm-up game and went into the first Test without injured pace spearhead Nahid Rana. But in one of the biggest upsets cricket has seen, t...

"This place was always called Homer's Valley by the locals. Travellers from all over the world would come and see the cave where Homer is said to have composed his poems," explained Turkish researcher Altan Altin, who has written a book on the subje...

Cans of paint are used by a dozen painters to depict jaguars, faces, flowers, birds, and other local elements, this time in the picturesque town of Concepcion de Ataco, Ahuachapan, nestled among coffee-growing mountains about 65 km (40 miles) west o...

Boasting a backstory of remarkable achievement despite childhood autism and other developmental disorders, by the time of his death on Friday Arday was at the epicentre of intense controversy. He was 41. Cambridge University's youngest black profes...

The proceedings, which could last over a month, will likely not make clear who fired the shots that killed the California hip-hop legend on the night of September 7, 1996, while he was in the gambling hub to see a Mike Tyson fight. But prosecutors ...