By AFPNearly 60 percent of all adults and a third of all children in the world will be overweight or obese by 2050 unless governments take action, a large new study said Tuesday.The research published in the Lancet medical journal used data from 204...

By AFP/Camille LAFFONT and Seros MUYISAFaith healer Julie Kaviavu threw a handful of grains into the fire and lit a cigarette as she prepared to ask the dead for advice -- a common practice in the war-torn eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.To help...

By AFPNobel Peace Prize laureate and education activist Malala Yousafzai returned to her Pakistan home village on Wednesday, 13 years after surviving an assassination attempt by militants.Yousafzai was a 15-year-old schoolgirl when Pakistan Taliban m...

By AFP/Julia ZAPPEISyrian refugee Khaled Alnomman said he made a big effort to integrate since he fled to Austria 10 years ago, learning to speak German fluently, getting a job as a bricklayer and applying for citizenship.The youngest of his four chi...

By AFP/Clara WrightPriests who ran a French Catholic school where staff have been accused of repeated abuse against boarders feel "responsible" for what had happened and were seeking to make amends, a spokesman said.Claims of repeated sexual and phys...

By AFPPrayers at home and smaller gatherings to break the fast -- Muslims in a city recently captured by Rwanda-backed fighters in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo face a more subdued holy month of Ramadan this year.The M23 captured Bukavu in...

By AFPAn Australian known as the "Man with the Golden Arm" for protecting 2.4 million babies with his rare, antibody-rich blood plasma, has died at 88, health officials say.James Harrison rolled up his sleeve and donated blood 1,173 times over 64 yea...

By AFP/Anuj CHOPRAUS First Lady Melania Trump on Monday threw her support behind a bill aimed at protecting Americans from deepfake revenge pornography, in her first solo public engagement since her husband returned to the White House.Appearing in a...

By AFP/Oscar BATRESFrom one day to the next Jose Maximino Amaya lost everything: his car, household goods, and the proximity of his three children, from whom he was separated when he was deported from the United States.The 50-year-old El Salvador nat...

By AFPUS President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he will cut funding for schools that allow "illegal protests," his latest threat to turn off the flow of federal money to the country's education system.The Republican has previously threatened to cut...

By AFP/Sahar AL ATTAROn a patch of city land beside the sea, urban Emiratis sit beneath the shimmering skyscrapers of wealthy Dubai, revamping a camping tradition rooted in the desert.Dozens of camper trailers are lined up, with simple facilities set...

By AFP/Lucía LACURCIAIn a busy workshop, Leandro Vieira oversees preparations for Rio de Janeiro's dazzling Carnival parade, where his samba school will celebrate the spiritual richness of Candomble, one of the main Afro-Brazilian faiths.Elsewhere, a...