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Guatemala ensures survival of vulnerable 'fossil' fish

Brazil team returns to Colombian site of doomed jet crash

Mancini finds positives in Italy loss, accepts fans' jeers

US celebrates Dolly Parton day on 9/25

Mbappe injured as Zidane wins on France debut, Italy lose on Mancini return

Alcaraz helps Europe into Laver Cup lead

Senegal draw in Vieira debut, Nigeria survive scare as Cape Verde crash

Six missing after building collapses in historic Athens district

U2 performs surprise 50th anniversary gigs in Dublin

Mbappe scores but suffers knee injury as Zidane gets debut France win

Pope calls worshippers 'saints of France' after AI warning

Mancini's Italy return spoiled by Belgium defeat

US court sides with Pentagon in Anthropic AI ban

Rodri confident in Man City innocence despite reported charges

Europe’s arms money maze

Houthis and al-Qaeda

Brazil tests Milei’s gamble

Germany under Weidel

Ukraine's Usyk motivated by boxing and memory of dead friend

Ukraine's world heavyweight boxing champion Oleksandr Usyk has told AFP he has two goals this year -- a unification title fight with Tyson Fury and rebuilding the house where his "good friend" was killed by Russian soldiers.

F1 tensions with FIA surface over 'inflated price tag' row

Formula One is never more than a chicane away from an unseemly spat as last week's surfacing of tensions between the sport's custodians the FIA and its owners Liberty Media demonstrated

Columbia disaster that scuttled the space shuttle

America may now be aiming to put astronauts back on the Moon, but for years the United States turned its back on manned missions after the Columbia space shuttle disaster.

ECB to hike rates again, but outlook brightens

The European Central Bank is expected to push on with its inflation fight Thursday with a fresh rate hike, even as signs grow the eurozone might have passed the worst of an economic shock.

France, Australia to hasten comeback from submarines row in Paris

Australian and French ministers are to meet Monday in a fresh drive to mend fences 16 months after Canberra pulled the plug on a big submarines contract, leaving Paris seething.

At California gun fair, few speak of recent massacres

With ammunition, rifles and bullet-proof vests on display, business is brisk at a Los Angeles area gun show -- so much so you'd never know a mass shooting unfolded nearby just days ago.

Boris Johnson: Putin threatened to lob missile at me

President Vladimir Putin threatened to personally target Boris Johnson with a missile attack just before ordering Russian forces into Ukraine, the former UK prime minister has claimed.

Eagles soar into Super Bowl over injury-hit 49ers

The Philadelphia Eagles steamrollered the injury-hit San Francisco 49ers 31-7 to book their place in the Super Bowl on Sunday.

Colombia's Lopez claims 'priceless' Vuelta San Juan victory

Colombia's Miguel Angel Lopez won the Vuelta a San Juan following Sunday's seventh and final stage claimed by Australian Sam Welsford in a sprint finish.