Critically needed economic growth in Africa is being held back by high borrowing costs imposed by international lenders, with ...

Nestled in the Sinai mountains, the ancient St Catherine's Monastery has been the centre of recent tensions after an Egyptian ...

A jihadist, jailed over the Paris and Brussels attacks in 2015 and 2016, goes on trial in Stockholm on Wednesday for his role ...

Syrian singer Ishtar halted concerts when Islamist-led forces seized power nearly six months ago. She's now back on stage, ...

South Korea's new President Lee Jae-myung vowed to reach out to the nuclear-armed North and "heal wounds" as he took office ...

More than a million worshippers were set to join Islam's most important rite under a beating sun as the hajj pilgrimage ...

Big guns Jannik Sinner and Novak Djokovic both chase semi-final berths at the French Open on Wednesday, but the spotlight ...

South Korea's centre-left Lee Jae-myung was declared president Wednesday after winning a snap election, taking the helm of a ...

The organizer of this year's San Francisco Pride didn't expect rejection when she contacted sponsors, but amid US President ...

It's never too late to make a splash, as Orestes Quintana, one of the doyens of the Juventud Acumulada (Forever Young) ...

Canada has lifted a three-decade moratorium on commercial cod fishing, but there are signs Atlantic stocks have not fully ...

Zimbabwe will cull dozens of elephants and distribute the meat for consumption to ease the ballooning population of the ...