Jihadists and allied factions have taken control of "half of the city of Aleppo", the director of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights told AFP early Saturday.

Slow and silent, former logging elephant Mae Khoun Nung emerges from a forest in northern Laos and follows her guide to an animal hospital for a check-up.

Hamas representatives will go to Cairo on Saturday for talks on a possible ceasefire in Gaza, an official in the Palestinian militant group told AFP on Friday.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called Friday for NATO to offer guaranteed protections to parts of Ukraine controlled by Kyiv in order to "stop the hot stage of the war." ...

Australian pace spearhead Josh Hazlewood was on Saturday ruled out of the second Test against India in Adelaide, with seamers Sean Abbott and Brendon Doggett added to their squad.

Second-tier French football club Paris FC announced on Friday the family of France's richest person Bernard Arnault had ...

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau arrived in Palm Beach, Florida, on Friday for what Canadian and American media said was a meeting with US President-elect Donald Trump at his Mar-a-Lago luxury ...

The car maker unites autos and luxury in a way that makes rivals feel down-market, while its exposure to China’s faltering ...

Five days after enjoying a title party in Las Vegas, Max Verstappen was brought back to earth on Friday when he qualified sixth for Saturday's sprint race at the Qatar Formula One Grand Prix.

Georgian police on Friday fired water cannon and tear gas on  demonstrators, an AFP reporter witnessed, on the second day of protests against the government's decision to delay EU membership talks.

Leicester named Ruud van Nistelrooy as the club's new manager on Friday, just weeks after his departure from Manchester United.

Gaza's civil defence agency said on Friday that at least 15 people were killed in Israeli strikes on Beit Lahia, in the north of the Hamas-run territory.