Incumbent Alassane Ouattara is the overwhelming favourite to secure a fourth term as Ivory Coast holds presidential polls ...

King Charles III leaves for a state visit to the Vatican Wednesday, where he will meet Pope Leo XIV and make history as the ...

Italy's second largest bank, UniCredit, beat analyst expectations on Wednesday with record third-quarter profits as higher ...

Above the pine forests and dunes that stretch along the nearly deserted beaches of southwestern Portugal, cranes rise from ...

A Russian overnight barrage on Ukraine killed six people in and around the capital Kyiv and triggered power cuts across the ...

After Sanae Takaichi took office as Japan's first woman prime minister, AFP spoke to some of her younger counterparts who ...

The spouse of Japan's first woman Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi hopes to support her by being a "stealth husband", cooking ...

Gold and silver sank for a second day Wednesday, bringing a rally in the precious metals to a juddering halt, while stocks ...

France's ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy became the first former head of an EU state to be jailed Tuesday, again proclaiming his ...

The jewellery stolen from the Louvre in Paris was valued at more than $100 million, a French prosecutor said Tuesday, as the ...

JPMorgan Chase officially inaugurated its new Manhattan tower Tuesday, a 60-story skyscraper that also marks a kind of ...

Lawyers challenging President Donald Trump's tariff authority say the president is acting contrary to what the nation's ...