Chinese leader Xi Jinping headed to Peru on Wednesday, bound for a meeting of Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) ...

Former Wales flanker Alix Popham has told AFP he hopes the new chairman of World Rugby will push for the changes required to ...

Electric vehicles need batteries, and most batteries are made with lithium, a critical material European automakers are ...

British writer Samantha Harvey won the prestigious Booker Prize on Tuesday for her short novel following six astronauts as ...

A controversial trade deal between the EU and South America's Mercosur bloc is back in the spotlight with rekindled optimism ...

Hargeisa (AFP) – Somaliland, a breakaway region of Somalia at the centre of a diplomatic storm, holds a presidential election ...

International Atomic Energy Agency chief Rafael Grossi is set to visit Tehran on Wednesday for crucial talks on Iran's ...

An Indonesian team under Dutch colonial rule sailed to France for the 1938 World Cup -- they lost their only game 6-0 and the ...

Boston (AFP) – The US airman who admitted to leaking a trove of classified Pentagon documents that revealed Washington ...

Canadian women's national team football coach Bev Priestman and two assistants suspended by FIFA over a drone scandal at the ...

A top UN official on Tuesday condemned "daily cruelty" in Gaza, describing "acts reminiscent of the gravest international ...

The United States on Tuesday banned all civilian flights to Haiti for a month, a day after a jetliner was shot at on approach ...