By AFPA video recovered from the cellphone of an aid worker killed in Gaza alongside other rescuers shows their final moments, according to the Palestinian Red Crescent, with clearly marked ambulances and emergency lights flashing as heavy gunfire er...

By AFP/Ali BEKHTAOUIIt took just one 50-minute speech by US President Donald Trump to undermine global economic stability and raise the prospect of a recession, with China's countermeasures only amplifying the risk of a debilitating tit-for-tat trade...

By AFPMedia rights monitoring group Reporters Without Borders (RSF) on Friday criticised EU "inaction" in the face of what it said was unrelenting political and judicial pressure in Serbia against journalists.There was "systematic repression of Serbi...

By AFPThe governor of Lebanon's central bank, Karim Souaid, took office on Friday, pledging to advance key reforms demanded by international creditors to unlock bailout funds as the country reels from a years-long financial crisis.Souaid, an asset ma...

By AFPA landmine-hunting rat in Cambodia has set a new world record by sniffing out more than 100 mines and pieces of unexploded ordnance, a charity said Friday.Ronin, a giant African pouched rat, has tracked down 109 landmines and 15 other potential...

By AFP/Guillaume DECAMMEMaking incisions and carefully taking samples, the scientists at a laboratory in Russia's far east looked like pathologists carrying out a post-mortem.But the body they were dissecting is a baby mammoth who died around 130,000...

By AFPA surprise heatwave hit Central Asia in March, a new study published Friday showed, putting in danger crops and water supply in a largely rural region already heavily affected by the impacts of climate change.Temperatures across the month were...

By AFP/Shrouq TARIQBenazir Raufi stands alone in her restaurant, her staff and customers too afraid to visit after Pakistan's government announced it was cancelling the residence permits of hundreds of thousands of Afghans.Islamabad announced at the...

By AFP/Peter MURPHYA new school in Ireland is training up a fresh generation of thatchers in a bid to save the country's disappearing thatched roofs, an iconic feature of the Irish landscape.In a hall in Portnoo students at the Donegal Thatching Scho...

By AFP/Sara HUSSEINScientist Inna Birchenko began to cry as she described the smouldering protected forest in Thailand where she was collecting samples from local trees shrouded in wildfire smoke."This beautiful, diverse community of trees and animal...

By AFP/Nicholas ROLL with Aminu ABUBAKAR and Boureima HAMAWhen listeners in northern Nigeria tuned into Voice of America last month, they found music playing in place of their regular broadcast -- a telltale sign, historically, that soldiers had seiz...

By AFP/Alice HackmanOn the outskirts of Paris, 44-year-old French Muslim weightlifter Sylvie Eberena concentrates hard and pushes 80 kilos of bar and weights clean over her veiled head.The single mother made her four children proud when she became th...