By AFPThousands of people gathered and over 70 were arrested at a pro-Palestinian rally in central London Saturday, on the eve of the start of a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.The majority were detained on suspicion of breaching the authorised pe...

By AFP/Ulrike KOLTERMANNFrench researchers have developed an application to help users migrate their whole online community from Elon Musk's X to rival social platforms such as Bluesky or Mastodon.The developers are betting on a campaign urging users...

By AFP/Kelly MACNAMARAIn an era of town-torching megablazes spewing smoke plumes visible from space, scientists say there is still a lot they don't know about the effects of extreme fire on people, nature and the climate.Athens, Maui and now Los Ange...

By AFPKeen to improve India's abysmal crowd management record at large-scale religious events, organisers of the world's largest human gathering are using artificial intelligence to try to prevent stampedes.Organisers predict up to 400 million pilgri...

By AFPIn a sprawling tent city in central Gaza, Palestinians displaced by war to other parts of the territory are all waiting for one thing: a ceasefire so they can go home.Most of Gaza's 2.4 million people have been displaced at least once by the Is...

By AFPA two-acre paddy field in northern Thailand has been transformed into an artwork depicting a dragon and a cat, symbols of hope and resilience as the community recovers from floods.The farm owner, Tanyapong Jaikham, told AFP that the cat represe...

By AFPChief prosecutor at the International Criminal Court Karim Khan met Syria's new leader Ahmed al-Sharaa on Friday, state media reported, as last month's ouster of Bashar al-Assad sparks hopes for justice.Sharaa and Syria's Foreign Minister Asaad...

By AFP/Ruth EglashEight decades after the Holocaust, its memory is at a "crossroads" as survivors who can offer first-hand accounts of the horrors of Nazi-era Europe dwindle, said the head of an Israeli memorial centre.Dani Dayan, chairman of Jerusal...

By AFPMore than 230,000 people have fled surging violence in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo since the start of the year, the United Nations said Friday, labelling it one of the world's "most alarming" humanitarian crises.The resource-rich easte...

By AFPJoe Biden said Friday that the Equal Rights Amendment, designed to ensure equality before the law regardless of one's sex, is already part of the US constitution -- a view disputed by political opponents as well as the National Archives."In kee...

By AFPTurkish prosecutors have filed a lawsuit against the Istanbul Bar Association for "terrorist propaganda" over its calls for a probe into journalist deaths in Syria, the country's main lawyers association has said."The Istanbul public prosecutor...

By AFP/Adam PLOWRIGHTEvery day at the Paris court trying ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy over alleged corruption with Libyan dictator Moamer Kadhafi, the journalists who helped uncover the extraordinary allegations are following proceedings.Fabrice Arfi...