Several cars were torched at a prison in southern France overnight Wednesday, marking the latest in a series of attacks on ...

Solar panels like the ones on the roof of Elhadj Abdou's house are an increasingly common sight in Niger's capital, which is ...

Heineken said Wednesday its beer sales were down in the first quarter but kept profit forecasts for the year unchanged ...

A rat-a-tat percussion and keyboard riff, and Youssou N'Dour's voice tore through the dark Dakar sky, as the world music ...

Figure skater Alysa Liu feared she might "humiliate" herself on her comeback last year, but now she is women's world champion ...

"Ded", a Russian veteran of Moscow's offensive against Ukraine, still limps on his new prosthetic leg after the amputation.

Forecast-beating growth in China's first quarter may have offered Beijing's economic planners some much needed good news -- ...

At a malnutrition treatment centre in Afghanistan's capital, the cries of children have given way to a heavy silence, as ...

Cod and herring are normally more likely to be on the dinner menu than the negotiating table at European security talks.

Veteran spinner Yuzvendra Chahal has been out of the Indian national team for two years but is toast of the cricketing world ...

The director of Gaza's Kamal Adwan hospital who was detained by Israeli forces in December is being held in "inhumane" ...

The Hagia Sophia of Istanbul is no stranger to change -- through the centuries the city's architectural jewel has gone from ...