By AFP/Julie EzvanThe first time Barney Casserly used ketamine at a UK music festival he thought he had found "nirvana". Five years later he died in agony, leaving behind devastated parents and friends."I would never, ever have imagined that this wou...

By AFP/Precidonio SilverioWhen Armando Ernesto Chau straps on the futuristic smart glasses that a young Mozambican robotics student is developing in the family dining room, he has a vision of a life less confined to his modest home.Chau is the protot...

By AFP/Daniel LawlerEfforts to vaccinate children against deadly diseases are faltering across the world due to economic inequality, Covid-era disruptions and misinformation, putting millions of lives at risk, research warned Wednesday.These trends a...

By AFP/Kenan AugeardMany others had rushed to the beach to cool off in the heat, but French retiree Sylvie Baudelet and another volunteer were busy handing out water, tea and coffee to thirsty migrants."It gives our life a little meaning," said Baude...

By AFP/Aishwarya KUMARWhen wedding season comes in India, the phone of child rights activist Tatwashil Kamble never stops ringing with appeals to stop girls from being married off due to poverty.Kamble said he has helped stop thousands of illegal mar...

By AFP/Sheikh Sabiha ALAMMosquito-borne dengue fever was rarely a major problem in Bangladesh's coastal districts, but some hospitals are so full of those with the potentially deadly virus that patients are treated on the floor.As climate change driv...

By AFP/Charlotte CAUSITThey were once part of an underground network that helped an estimated 11,000 women get abortions before the US Supreme Court established a constitutional right to the procedure in 1973.More than 50 years on, former members of...

By AFPDressed in colourful costumes, some sporting feathered headgear and traditional swords, several thousand of Malaysia's ethnic Dayak people paraded in the streets of Sarawak state on Borneo island Saturday to celebrate the ending of the rice har...

By AFP/Ismet HAJDARIIt took 26 years for Ramadan Nishori to talk publicly about his rape -- the first male victim to break the silence about the mass sexual violence during the war in Kosovo.The father-of-three was raped by a Serbian policeman during...

By AFP/Adrien VICENTECompulsory microchips as well as bans on ear-cropping and tail-docking are among a set of new rules to protect cats and dogs that European lawmakers approved Thursday.The European Union is home to more than 72 million dogs and 83...

By AFP/Susan NJANJIThe Netherlands on Saturday officially handed back to Nigeria 119 precious ancient sculptures, stolen from the former kingdom of Benin more than 120 years ago during the colonial era.It is the latest return of artefacts to Africa,...

By AFP/Peter HUTCHISON and Lidia PEDROBritain's parliament took a historic step towards allowing euthanasia on Friday when MPs backed contentious legislation that would introduce assisted dying for terminally ill people.Lawmakers in the lower House o...