All gloom was left outside as pensioners bustled into a room in Liverpool's centuries-old town hall for a tea dance, a lively antidote to getting older in Britain. ...
When Jacky Lee first heard about a raging fire at the Hong Kong housing estate where she lived, she rushed back to save Jason, her 15-year-old grey poodle still ...
A previously unknown work by French impressionist painter Auguste Renoir of his toddler son Jean sold for 1.8 million euros at a Paris auction on this week, the ...
Beloved pandas Huan Huan and Yuan Zi were flown back to China years earlier than planned after Huan Huan developed chronic kidney disease, drawing emotional farewells ...
Rustling through fallen golden leaves, locals in a forest outside Arslanbob in the Kyrgyz mountains were scurrying for walnuts - an ancient pastime and economic ...
Draft beer, peanuts and big-screen sports... the scene is reminiscent of pubs worldwide, but in Saudi Arabia's capital, customers in white robes or black veils sip ...
India's $60-billion Bollywood industry is facing a deepening credibility crisis, as insiders warn that manipulated film reviews and inflated box office numbers are ...
A Patek Philippe timepiece that in 2016 became the most expensive wristwatch ever sold at auction fetched an even higher price this weekend, auctioneers Phillips ...
British-Hungarian writer David Szalay won the Booker Prize on Monday for his novel " Flesh", a tortured story of a Hungarian emigre who makes and loses a fortune. ...
On a cool November morning, members of a local council in central Nigeria met religious leaders at the traditional ruler's palace to discuss religious harmony as ...
Sitting on the edge of a nearby well, Chapan Lolpusike recounted how his cows and oxen " all died" in the worst drought in four decades, caused by a succession of ...
Few places in the small African kingdom of Eswatini have a more feared reputation than the Matsapha Correctional Centre, a high-security sprawl of concrete and rust ...
Two months ago, the civil engineer, like thousands of others in the west African country, became a driver on the platform, which works similarly to Uber.
Two machines resembling robotic vacuum cleaners sped around a ring colliding, shooting sparks and catching fire, as Iranian engineering students watched from behind ...
Australia has turned to new technology to help stave off shark attacks
Nigerian writer Wole Soyinka may no longer travel to the US
Berlin, long hailed as one of the world's great party cities, is fighting to keep its famed techno clubs alive in the face of soaring prices, shifting tastes and ...
In the heat of a warehouse-like building in Conakry, five young men twirl, contort and juggle to the rhythm of percussions, defying the laws of gravity and distorting ...
A digital reconstruction of a million-year-old skull suggests humans may have diverged from our ancient ancestors 400 000 years earlier than thought and in Asia ...
In Ivory Coast's biggest city Abidjan, vulnerable drug addicts say a secluded care and support centre in an upscale part of town has helped them to turn around their ...
Maria and Ana, victims of sex trafficking from Latin America, were lured to Albania under false promises of lucrative work, only to be forced into illegal sex work ...
Two men who escaped one of the world's most secretive and repressive states have told how they were tortured, beaten and raped in Turkmenistan for the "crime" of ...
Three authors writing about love and loss have made the Booker Prize shortlist for the first time, among the six chosen as contenders for this year's prestigious ...
There is a mixed crowd lining up outside the ICE recruitment fair in Utah, where hundreds of people are eager to join US President Donald Trump's vast deportation ...
Decked out with fake crystal chandeliers and velvet sofas, cosmetic surgery clinics in Afghanistan's capital are a world away from the austerity of Taliban rule, ...