A top Syrian official attended a conference in Paris Tuesday on the invitation of French lawmakers, angering the government days after he was banned from a similar meeting in Brussels. French Foreign...
French centrist candidate Emmanuel Macron has launched his presidential campaign with a plan to tackle terrorism by forcing internet firms to release encrypted messages. Election campaigning...
Defending champions Fiji clinched a record17th Hong Kong Sevens title Sunday after blowing away South Africa to hand new coach Gareth Baber a victory in his former home town. The Pacific islanders...
Kenya's Paul Lonyangata won the 41st Paris marathon on Sunday with his wife Purity Rionoripo taking the women's race. Lonyangata recorded his biggest career win in a time of two hours six minutes and...
The Duke of Cambridge and Prince Harry are to join more than 25,000 people in northern France to mark the centenary of a defining World War One battle. The four-day battle of Vimy Ridge, near the...
A year ago Mathew Hayman came from nowhere to stun Tom Boonen and deny the Belgian star a record-extending fifth Paris-Roubaix triumph. Now back at the 'Hell of the North', Hayman, less than two...
It was to be the great director Orson Welles's big comeback, marking his triumphant return to the United States after a quarter century in the wilderness in Europe. But "The Other Side of the Wind,"...
The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) called Friday for the "immediate and unconditional release" of opposition party members arrested last month in the Horn of Africa nation of...
Golden Tulip Kumasi City, the leading hotel in Kumasi, has Mr Stephane Robert as its new General Manager. Mr Robert will oversee the day-to-day operations and strategic direction of the 160- room-...
International rights watchdog Reporters Without Borders said it is opening its first Asia office in Taiwan after rejecting Hong Kong over concerns that China poses the "biggest threat" to press...
The Dead Sea was to come alive with music and an extravagant light show Thursday with a concert by electro pioneer Jean-Michel Jarre to draw attention to its shrinking water levels. Jarre was set to...
More than 700 rhinos were killed in South Africa in the first half of last year South Africa's top court has dismissed an appeal by the department of environmental affairs to keep a moratorium on the...
François Hollande's reign as president was marked by a secret love affair, deadly terror attacks, and an economic policy U-turn that could still rip his own Socialist Party apart - so much for the...
Filmmaker Roman Polanski on Monday lost another bid to end his 1970s rape case without serving more jail time when a Los Angeles judge ruled the French-Polish director could not seek relief from the...
American athletics legend Michael Johnson said Tuesday that Los Angeles' bid for the 2024 Olympics comes with "very little risk" and has great support among the residents of the city. The battle for...
Ryuichi Sakamoto, the pioneering Japanese electronic composer, has announced his first studio album in eight years which is inspired by the Russian film master Andrei Tarkovsky. The 65-year-old...
Former Cameroon international, Rigobert Song, has thanked the country’s fans and president for their support as he arrived back in Cameroon following six months of treatment in a Paris hospital....
Brexit will see the departure of the EU’s largest military force, leaving France as the bloc’s main military power. And as the US pressures Europe to take more responsibility for its own defense,...
President Trump’s Executive Order on Climate Change will have far reaching impacts on many developing countries, especially in Africa, that are already bearing the brunt of the negative impacts of...
With his blue eyes, brown hair and beaming smile, young Michael Delefortrie looked every inch the angelic altar boy. But fast forward twenty years, and Michael had changed his name to Younnes, traded...
