Soon after sunrise on the Thai island of Phuket, a swordsman chants an incantation and slowly slides the first of three ...

India's government has asked the country's top court not to toughen criminal penalties against marital rape during an ongoing ...

World number one Jannik Sinner said Friday he was not in a "comfortable" situation as his doping case dragged on, but ...

The annual "Francophonie" summit kicks off on Friday – an opportunity for host-country France to try and bolster its ...

A French jihadist close to the brothers behind the 2015 massacre at satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo was on Thursday ...

Brazilians go to the polls Sunday to elect mayors and councillors in more than 5,500 cities after a vitriolic, sometimes ...

Independence leaders in New Caledonia have reacted with caution to the French government's decision to scrap a constitutional ...

Japan's new Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba warned in his first policy speech Friday that "today's Ukraine could be tomorrow's ...

When an Israeli air strike killed her employer and destroyed nearly everything she owned in southern Lebanon, it also crushed ...

Experienced Fiji hooker Sam Matavesi has demanded "change" at his country's rugby union as he settles into life at French Top ...

Europe's Hera probe is tentatively scheduled to launch Monday on a mission to inspect the damage a NASA spacecraft made when ...

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said his country would use nuclear weapons "without hesitation" if attacked by the South and ...