Afghan refugees who have been living for years at the Khazana Refugee Camp in Peshawar, Pakistan are hopeful that the new US-Taliban peace deal can ultimately bring peace and allow them to return to their home country, after a nearly two-decade lo...

Factories belonging to the China Mengniu Dairy Company and Beijing Huadian BJGAS Energy Company take measures against the spread of the coronavirus while continuing production, as shown to media during a tour of their facilities. Both factories ar...

The Democratic race to the White House reaches South Carolina, where presidential candidates seek the support of African American voters, an influential voting block for the Democratic Party. "Historically on the Democratic side, the individual th...

Vaporetti and all Venice's means of public transport are being disinfected with a special chlorine-based solution as Italy struggles to control the largest outbreak of the coronavirus in Europe with some 400 cases.

It appears every leap year, on February 29, since 1980 meaning fans of the "La Bougie du Sapeur" newspaper can finally get their hands on issue No. 11 when it hits the shelves from Thursday. The paper's name, literally 'The Soldier's Candle', is b...

Climate activists celebrate outside the Royal Courts of Justice in London after the Court of Appeals ruled against the building of a third runway at London’s Heathrow airport, saying the UK government had failed to take into account its commitment...

French president Emmanuel Macron and Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte arrive at France/Italy summit in Naples.

The French delegation made of ministers and president Emmanuel Macron gather with Italian ministers and head of government Giuseppe Conte for the traditional family photo ahead of the France-Italy summit in Naples.

A Thessaloniki pharmacist says there are no more "antiseptics and masks left in the pharmacies and warehouses" as people "are terrorised" after a woman who had recently travelled to northern Italy was reported as the first person to contract the n...

Umaro Sissoco Embalo, one of two candidates in Guinea-Bissau's presidential election, arrives to be sworn in, even though a bitter row over the vote remains unresolved after nearly two months.

The new coronavirus epidemic is at a "decisive point" globally, says World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, as the number of cases detected outside of China grows.

Medical staff take full precautionary measures as they collect samples from patients under self-quarantine in Daegu -- South Korea's fourth-largest city with a population of 2.5 million and the epicentre of the outbreak. The world's 12th-largest e...

The European Commission is continuing to prepare for a "no deal" Brexit, according to a Commission spokeswoman, as negotiations are due to open next week.

Syria's town of Kafranbel falling to the regime has dealt a deafening blow to the uprising, activists say. The town in Idlib province bordering Turkey was one of the first to join the revolutionary fervour that swept Syria in 2011.

Videographic looking at karate, one of five new sports on show at the Olympic Games in Tokyo this summer.

Colombian police raid a coca field in Tumaco, Colombia, following the state's Defense Minister's statement that the military will step up an offensive against drug trafficking gangs responsible for clearing thousands of hectares of protected natio...

Angry Lesbos residents continue to protest the construction of a new camp for migrants after the majority of riot policemen left the island following a day of violent incidents.

Videographic illustrating how carbon 14 dating works. Marking the 80th anniversary of the discovery of the carbon 14 isotope.

Videographic on the five pillars of Islam. Saudi Arabia on Thursday suspended visas for visits to Islam's holiest sites for the "umrah" pilgrimage, an unprecedented move triggered by coronavirus fears that raises questions over the annual hajj.

Videographic illustrating melting ice caps. Cases of polar bears killing and eating each other are on the rise in the Arctic as melting ice and human activity erode their habitat, a Russian scientist said Wednesday.

French President Emmanuel Macron visits the Pitié-Salpêtrière hospital in Paris where the first French novel coronavirus death occurred the previous day. Macron is then due to fly to Naples where he will meet the Italian Prime Minister, Giuseppe C...

Jockeys break from the stalls at Hong Kong's famous Happy Valley racecourse. But there is no customary Wednesday night roar from excited punters, as the grandstands remain empty. Welcome to horse racing behind closed doors, the latest sporting vic...

The body of 30-year-old Furkaan is lowered into the ground as family, friends and neighbours mourn him after he was killed amid an outburst of sectarian violence in New Delhi that has claimed at least 27 lives and left more than 200 people injured...

Marian Choi, an engineer and mother of three, had been looking forward to celebrating her 10th birthday -- or, technically, her 40th -- with a big party on February 29. But the Hong Konger's plans have been thwarted by fears over the new coronavi...

North Korean workers disinfect public transport vehicles in Pyongyang and residents don masks as the country seeks to prevent a coronavirus outbreak.

Delhi's worst sectarian violence in decades with deadly battles between Hindus and Muslims has left parts of the Indian capital looking like a war zone.

Myanmar's tattooed headhunting warriors -- the Lainong -- are one of dozens of Naga tribes found in a semi-autonomous zone near the Indian border. Tradition dictates a thorn would be used to drive tree sap under the warrior's skin to tattoo a perm...

It is the world's largest seed, and with a shape suggestive of a woman's hips and myths of love-making powers, the coco de mer is an icon of the Seychelles.

US President Donald Trump says five people died in a shooting at a brewery complex in Milwaukee.

US President Donald Trump says he is appointing Vice President Mike Pence to lead the US response to the novel coronavirus.

US President Donald Trump says the risk to the American people from the novel coronavirus is "very low" thanks to actions taken by his government, such as early travel restrictions.

US President Donald Trump vows to spend "whatever" is appropriate to respond to the coronavirus. The administration has requested from Congress $2.5 billion in funding to develop treatments, vaccines and national stockpile of essential equipment, ...

Viradouro samba school is crowned the champion of the 2020 Rio Carnival after a performance that paid tribute to the black women of Brazil, a country marked by slavery. This is a second title for 'Unidos de Viradouro' samba school, the previous on...

Tourists and residents of Brazil's Rio de Janeiro say they are "not worried" about the novel coronavirus after the health ministry announced that a Sao Paulo resident has been diagnosed with Covid-19, the first case recorded in Latin America.

Musical enigmas, digital puzzles, a Da Vinci code "cryptex": the Goodplanet Foundation in Paris launches its escape game, with the aim of teaching children to care for the environment and reduce energy consumption.

A decade after a powerful 8.8-magnitude earthquake and tsunami hit central and southern Chile, the country has completed reconstruction and consolidated earthquake engineering, although in the devastated coastal areas people are still trying to ad...

Filipinos bow their heads to be sprinkled instead of having a cross drawn on their foreheads to mark Ash Wednesday, as Asia's bastion of Catholicism guarded against the spread of coronavirus.

Security forces stand on alert and trucks wait after the closure of the border between Pakistan and Iran as fears grow over a jump in new coronavirus infections. In Iran, more deaths and new infections are being reported, it is now the country wit...

A worker sprays disinfectant at a railway station in Daegu, South Korea's epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak, as part of preventive measures against the spread of the virus. South Korea reported 284 new infections on Wednesday, while the US com...

Egypt holds a military funeral for former president Hosni Mubarak, whose three decades of strong-arm rule ended in the Arab Spring protests of 2011. The government of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi declared three days of mourning for Mubarak, who ...

Solar power and start-ups are in vogue in Togo, which aims to deliver power to all the country's eight million citizens by 2030.

Veterinarian Tahera Rezai, who heads the "Kabul small Animal Clinic", says she fears that the Taliban will stop women from working if the militants return to Afghanistan as a deal with the US nears.

The Tokyo 2020 Olympics are going ahead, organisers say, even as the government calls for major events in coming weeks to be postponed, cancelled or scaled back over the new coronavirus.

French former prime minister Francois Fillon and his wife Penelope leave the court in Paris after the first day of their trial for claims they embezzled over one million euros in an alleged fake-jobs fraud. The eagerly-awaited trial of the former ...

Brazil is investigating a possible case of the novel coronavirus known as Covid-19, which has infected more than 80,000 people worldwide since its emergence in central China last month.

The Greek islands of Lesbos, Chios and Samos are staging a general strike as protests against the construction of new migrant camps intensified.

French former prime minister Francois Fillon and his wife Penelope arrive in court in Paris over claims they embezzled over one million euros in an alleged fake-jobs fraud. The eagerly-awaited trial of the former presidential hopeful and his wife ...

The family and lawyers of two US students arrive for court in Rome on the first day of their trial over the fatal stabbing last year of a policeman during a botched drugs bust. Finnegan Lee Elder and Gabriel Natale-Hjorth have been charged with ki...