Wang Yi and Sergei Lavrov were attending a three-day meeting of the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) bloc in the Laos capital Vientiane. Both held talks with counterparts from the bloc, while Wang also met with new British F...

A source close to the investigation told AFP the attacks were coordinated acts of "sabotage". "This is a massive attack on a large scale to paralyse the TGV network," SNCF told AFP, adding that many routes would be cancelled. "SNCF was the victim ...

UNESCO said the site, which dates back to the fourth century, had been put on the endangered list at the demand of Palestinian authorities and cited the "imminent threats" it faced. "It's the only recourse to protect the site from destruction in th...

Alberto Braglia - London 1908 The first athlete to put gymnastics on the map was self-taught in a barn in his native Modena in Italy. Taking time-out from his job at a tobacco factory Braglia lit up the floor in the men's all around in 1908. After ...

The 1999 Kargil conflict was the last major battle between the two nuclear-armed foes, who have fought numerous wars since their partition into two nations upon independence from British colonial rule. It came just a year after tit-for-tat atomic ...

Haiti has long been rocked by gang violence, but conditions sharply worsened at the end of February when armed groups launched coordinated attacks in Port-au-Prince to overthrow then-prime minister Ariel Henry. The gangs control 80 percent of the C...

This scene has inspired millions of fridge magnets, posters, and souvenirs -- and now the queue to reach the viewing spot in the clifftop village of Oia can take more than 20 minutes. Santorini is a key stopover of the Greek cruise experience. But ...

The 1999 Kargil conflict was the last major battle between two nuclear-armed foes who have fought numerous wars since their partition into two nations on independence from British colonial rule. It came just a year after tit-for-tat atomic weapons...

Archaeologists stumbled upon the city-under-a-city "almost by chance" after an excavation of house cellars in Midyat, near the Syrian border, led to the discovery of a vast labyrinth of caves in 2020. Workers have already cleared more than 50 subte...

Gaemi was the strongest typhoon to hit Taiwan in eight years when it made landfall on Thursday, flooding parts of the island's second-biggest city. Typhoon Gaemi exacerbated seasonal rains in the Philippines on its path to Taiwan, triggering floodi...

At least one person was killed and four missing after the downpours in Yamagata and Akita prefectures on the main island of Honshu. A man in his 60s was missing after a landslide at roadworks in Yuzawa City, while an 86-year-old man was unaccounted...

The election will be the first test of the public mood since the height of the 2022 downturn, which caused months of food, fuel and medicine shortages across the island nation. President Ranil Wickremesinghe, 75, who took office after street prote...

Nadal has won 14 of his 22 Grand Slam titles in Paris but at 38 time is ticking for the Spaniard, who last month suffered his earliest exit from the French Open. Battered by exhausting, career-long battles with injuries, former world number one Nad...

Amid Biles's highly publicized troubles with the "twisties" and her withdrawal from multiple events at the pandemic-delayed Tokyo Games, the US women settled for team silver. With Biles back -- along with Tokyo all-around gold medalist Suni Lee, To...