Dutch Prime Minister Dick Schoof's far-right government faced a crisis Friday when a junior minister reportedly threatened to resign, alleging "racist" comments by cabinet colleagues after last week's ...

When DR Congo's Kimbanguist Symphony Orchestra was founded thirty years ago it was a rag-tag band of around a dozen string musicians with so few instruments players were forced to share. Today it ...

The Central African Republic (CAR) said Friday it has convinced the regulatory body for global diamond trading to end a decade-old export embargo.

Result of Ireland v Argentina one-off rugby union Test at Lansdowne Road on Friday: ...

Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday warned the world was entering an era of growing "unilateralism" and "protectionism," in comments at a major Asia-Pacific trade summit in Peru.

The new four-meet Grand Slam Track circuit will culminate in Los Angeles on June 27-29 next year, organisers of the athletics series founded by four-time Olympic champion Michael Johnson announced on ...

A rare inside account of the tyranny of the Taliban and their impact on Afghan women hits screens next week with the smartphone-filmed documentary "Bread & Roses." ...

The Lebanese government is reviewing a US truce proposal in the Israel-Hezbollah conflict, Lebanese officials told AFP on Friday, nearly two months since cross-border clashes escalated into a ...

Carlos Alcaraz said he was hoping to make Rafael Nadal's tennis farewell at the Davis Cup Finals a victorious one after he ...

The trial of an undocumented migrant from Venezuela charged with murdering a US nursing student -- a case cited as evidence of lax borders by Donald Trump during his presidential campaign -- began ...

It may be time to scoop up commodities, as higher inflation potentially looms under a Trump administration and the ...

US stocks finished lower Friday, as traders contemplated a slower path of rate cuts in the wake of comments from Fed Chair Jerome Powell.