By AFPThousands of Indonesians received a free health check-up Monday as the government launched an annual screening programme, an effort to improve preventative care and uphold a key election promise of President Prabowo Subianto.Indonesians of all...

By AFP/Qubad Wali and Claire GounonAs night settles over Afghanistan's capital, only a few small lights and neon signs pierce the darkness and thick blanket of winter pollution.But on some street corners, glittering colossal wedding halls loom out of...

By AFP/Leticia PINEDAYeilis Torres, a 38-year-old Cuban woman, knows all too well the loneliness and anguish facing the migrants flown by the United States this week to its notorious military base in Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.Torres was picked up at sea...

By AFPAustralia must act to improve Indigenous people's lives, the government said Monday, as an annual report highlighted their shorter lifespans, poorer health and higher incarceration rates.Living in one of the world's wealthiest countries, the de...

By AFPHate speech in India targeting the country's religious minorities saw a "staggering" surge in 2024, a US-based think tank said Monday.The alarming rise was "deeply intertwined with the ideological ambitions of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party...

By AFP/Christy-Belle GehaRukaya al-Zubaidi placed a cautious foot on a skateboard and then struggled to find her balance as others glided back and forth at Baghdad's first park dedicated to the sport."It's only my second time skating, but I want to k...

By AFP/Danny KEMPDonald Trump said at his inauguration that he had been "saved by God." Now he appears to be returning the favor with an increasingly conservative, religious focus in his second term as US president.The three-times-married billionaire...

By AFP/Lucie PEYTERMANNFatou Fall defiantly faced the ocean and sadly laid a flower on Mbao beach near Senegal's capital Dakar in memory of her husband -- one of many who left on perilous clandestine crossings for Europe but never returned.The young...

By AFP/Akshata KAPOORBritain's newest reality TV show has been slammed as "insensitive", "voyeuristic" and even "nauseating" for recreating with six Britons the often fatal journeys made by thousands of refugees to the UK.Bluntly titled "Go Back to W...

By AFP/Jim SLATERThe governing body for US collegiate sports changed its policy for transgender athletes on Thursday, allowing only those assigned female at birth to compete in women's sports.The move by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (...

By AFP/Linda GIVETASHShe says she was violated by police. Now she's brainstorming an AI-integrated app with a panic button that alerts private security to help other women caught in South Africa's tragically high rates of abuse.Peaches, as the 35-yea...

By AFPIsmaili Muslims said a last goodbye on Saturday to their late spiritual leader, Aga Khan IV, at a private funeral ceremony in Lisbon attended by dignitaries and foreign leaders.Prince Karim al-Husseini, 88, died on Tuesday. He was regarded as a...