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Wildfires pile pressure on Spanish PM
Wildfires that have swept across Spain this summer are piling pressure on Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, who is already reeling from a string of corruption allegations against members of his inner circle.
Lego posts record sales, sees market share growing further: CEO
Danish toymaker Lego, the world's biggest, posted record sales for the first half of the year and continues to gain market share despite global volatility, its chief executive told AFP.
Floods, landslides kill at least 30 in India's Jammu region
Floods and landslides triggered by heavy rains have killed at least 30 people in India's Himalayan region of Jammu and Kashmir, officials and local media said Wednesday.
Police search Australian bush for gunman after two officers killed
Police searched the Australian bush on Wednesday for a heavily armed 56-year-old gunman still on the run a day after allegedly killing two officers and wounding a third.
Feudal warlord statue beheaded in Japan
A statue of a powerful 16th-century warlord and samurai outside a shopping arcade in Japan has been beheaded, a shop official and media reports said Wednesday.
US revokes visa of Brazil justice minister in Bolsonaro row
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said on Tuesday that the United States had revoked the visa of Justice Minister Ricardo Lewandowski, a move he termed "irresponsible."
Spain calls wildfires one of its worst disasters in years
The Spanish government on Tuesday described wildfires that have swept the country as one of the country's worst environmental disasters in years, as it approved relief measures for affected areas.
Living in 'sin'? Ronaldo, Rodriguez highlight Saudi double standard
When Cristiano Ronaldo and Georgina Rodriguez announced their engagement this month, two things stood out: the outsized diamond ring, and their unmarried cohabitation in conservative Saudi Arabia.
Aid to famine-struck Gaza still 'drop in the ocean': WFP
The World Food Programme warned Tuesday that the aid Israel is allowing to enter Gaza remains a "drop in the ocean", days after famine was formally declared in the war-torn Palestinian territory.
Typhoon death toll rises in Vietnam as downed trees hamper rescuers
The death toll from Typhoon Kajiki rose to three in Vietnam on Tuesday, as rescue workers battled uprooted trees and downed power lines and widespread flooding brought chaos to the streets of the capital Hanoi.
Diamond czar Maurice Tempelsman, Jackie O companion, dead at 95
Maurice Tempelsman, a renowned diamond merchant and long-time companion of former US first lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, died in New York, his family said. He was 95.
Mexican drug lord faces life in prison after pleading guilty in US court
The Trump administration's top justice official Pam Bondi hailed a "landmark victory" Monday as Sinaloa drug cartel cofounder Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada changed his plea to guilty, meaning he faces life imprisonment and losing $15 billion.
Top UK screenwriter Laverty arrested at pro-Palestine protest
Screenwriter Paul Laverty, best known for his collaborations with director Ken Loach including on the award-winning "I, Daniel Blake," was arrested Monday at a pro-Palestine protest for supporting a banned organisation, Scottish police said.
Russia holds secretive espionage hearing against French researcher
A Russian court on Monday held a secretive espionage hearing against a French researcher who is already serving a three-year prison sentence, the latest in a string of Westerners since the Ukraine offensive.
Telegram's Durov blasts French probe one year after arrest
Telegram founder Pavel Durov has criticised France's investigation into illegal content on his messaging app, saying authorities were "struggling" to find evidence of wrongdoing a year after his high-profile arrest.
Portugal counts the cost of its biggest ever forest fire
Nearly 1,000 firefighters remained mobilised Monday in central Portugal to prevent flare-ups of what authorities said was the biggest forest fire the country has seen -- ravaging an area more than 10 times bigger than Manhattan island.
Australian mushroom meal survivor says 'half alive' after wife's killing
The only guest to survive a toxic mushroom lunch with Australian murderer Erin Patterson said Monday he feels "half alive" without his wife, who was one of the three victims.
Australia's mushroom murderer faces victims' family in court
Australian toxic mushroom killer Erin Patterson faces her victims' relatives in court Monday before a judge sentences her for a triple murder that made headlines worldwide.
Trump clashes with Democrats as he expands National Guard plans
Donald Trump threatened to deploy National Guard troops Sunday to yet another Democratic stronghold, the Maryland city of Baltimore, as the US president seeks to expand his crackdown on crime and immigration.
Fires ravage an ageing rural Spain
The biggest fear for senior citizens taking refuge in Benavente, a town in a zone ravaged by vast wildfires in Spain, is that "everything they own could burn", its mayor Beatriz Asensio told AFP.
Venezuela rallies militia volunteers in response to US 'threat'
Civil servants, housewives and retirees alike lined up in Venezuela's capital Caracas on Saturday as thousands volunteered to join the country's militia in case there is a US invasion.
UK's mass facial-recognition roll-out alarms rights groups
Outside supermarkets or in festival crowds, millions are now having their features scanned by real-time facial-recognition systems in the UK -- the only European country to deploy the technology on a large scale.
Bolsonaro defense says Brazil police aim to 'discredit' him
Former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro's lawyers denied Friday that he violated restrictions imposed for his detention during his trial over an attempted coup, and accused police of "discrediting" him, according to a document submitted to the Supreme Court.
Lyle Menendez denied parole decades after murder of parents
A US judicial commission denied parole Friday to Joseph Lyle Menendez, a day after his brother Erik was also ordered to stay in prison for the murder of their parents in a Beverly Hills mansion more than three decades ago.
Firefighting games spark at Gamescom 2025
In a video gaming landscape often dominated by fantasy duels and kinetic gunfights, one different genre is standing out in the Gamescom trade fair in Germany: firefighting.
Five killed in New York state tourist bus crash
Five passengers aboard a tourist bus were killed Friday when their driver got distracted and crashed on a New York state highway, police said.
Multiple tourists killed in New York state bus crash
Multiple tourists were killed and others injured Friday when a bus carrying more than 50 sightseers home from a visit to Niagara Falls crashed in New York state, officials said.
Salvador man at center of Trump deportations row freed
A wrongly deported Salvadoran man returned to the US during a fierce row over President Donald Trump's hardline immigration policies was released Friday from prison, where he had been detained on human smuggling charges, his lawyer told AFP.
Colombia reels after twin guerrilla attacks kill 19
Colombia's defense minister vowed Friday to defeat "desperate" armed groups after twin guerrilla attacks killed 19 people and deepened the country's worst security crisis in decades.
UN declares famine in Gaza, first ever in Middle East
The United Nations on Friday officially declared a famine in Gaza, the first time it has done so in the Middle East, with experts warning 500,000 people face "catastrophic" hunger.
Chinese tiger, French berets and space cannons mark Gamescom 2025
A new instalment in Chinese action saga "Black Myth", a long-awaited indie favourite and stereotypically French cosplay have all marked the vast Gamescom trade fair this week in Cologne.
Thai ex-PM Thaksin acquitted of royal insult charges
Thailand's former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra was cleared Friday of royal defamation charges, relieving a threat to his embattled political dynasty which has dominated Thai politics for two decades.