Hundreds of Iraqi women stage a march in the Shiite holy city of Najaf insisting on their right to play a central role in the protest movement sweeping the country.

German Interior minister Horst Seehofer visits the crime scene in Hanau where a shooter with suspected far-right beliefs killed nine people at a shisha bar and a cafe. Reports say "several victims of Kurdish origin" were among the victims.

People in Beijing start to adjust to strict rules in place to control the spread of the coronavirus, which has so far killed more than 2,100 and infected more than 74,000 people in China.

Videographic on the art of filmmaking. Diversity, politics and revelations from the Nazi era will dominate the agenda when the Berlin film festival launches its 70th edition in the heart of the German capital on Thursday.

Updated videographic on the European Central Bank.

Thousands of women, many sporting the green scarves that have become the symbol of Argentina's abortion rights movement, rally in Buenos Aires to campaign for a new bill to legalise abortion, two years after a similar bill was narrowly defeated.

Forensic police carry out their investigation at Midnight shisha bar, the first location in a shooting spree in the German city of Hanau that left ten people dead excluding the gunman.

Steluta Duta was a teenaged orphan living on the streets when, one cold January day in 2002, she stepped through the door of a boxing gym in the town of Buzau and embarked on her unlikely path to becoming an elite athlete. Duta, whose first name m...

The chairperson of the UN Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan says that deliberate starvation and the deprivation of access to basic services are hallmarks of the conflict in South Sudan. She also highlights a significant level of political ...

Images show the scene outside the Arena Bar & Cafe in Hanau, Germany following a deadly shooting spree that left 10 dead overnight. The attack occurred at two bars in Hanau, about 20 kilometres (12 miles) from Frankfurt. After the first deadly sho...

Scores of people were rescued from a blazing building in Myanmar's commercial hub Yangon early Thursday, many brought to safety with a cherry-picker crane from the highest floors.

Police are on the scene after deadly shootings in the German city of Frankfurt, with an unknown number of attackers still at large.

The Seychelles, a tropical eden in the Indian Ocean with idyllic beaches and luxury hotels, is not pure paradise. The country is fighting a major scourge: heroin, to which about 5% of the population is addicted.

Sitting at the head of the table, "death cafe" facilitator Mireille Hayden listens carefully as a young woman who recently lost her father shares her experience dealing with grief. At this unusual cafe in London, people from all ages and all walks...

Police are on the scene after at least eight people were killed in two shootings near the German city of Frankfurt, with an unknown number of attackers still at large.

Thousands of women wave and hold up the green scarves that have become the symbol of Argentina's abortion rights movement, during a protest in Buenos Aires to campaign for a new bill to legalise abortion.

Thousands of women brandish green scarves and gather in front of Argentina's Congress to demand that the country legalise abortion, a year after conservatives narrowly blocked its decriminalisation, leaving the country bitterly divided over the is...

Fernando Magrin is the sales manager for American Airlines in Brazil. He is also a drag-queen in his free time. A few years ago, he created one of Sao Paulo Carnival's biggest street parties: The "Bloco MinhoQueens", which attracted 200,000 people...

Harvey Weinstein leaves court as jurors in his high-profile sex crimes trial end a second day of deliberations without reaching a verdict. The disgraced movie mogul, 67, faces life in prison if the jury of seven men and five women convict him of a...

Large peanut orders from Chinese traders have cut Senegal's traditional selling season short this year, rewarding farmers with fat profits but leaving local buyers with slim pickings.

A layer of frost covers dry crops in central Colombia, where worried farmers are lamenting this year's particularly strong damage - one which experts say isn't due to climate change.

Above the sewers in which they dwell, rats have become the focal point of Paris's municipal campaigns, with incumbent mayor Anne Hidalgo putting forward new generation bins supposed to deprive them of food, while the opposition boasts of having se...

As the usually bustling streets of Chinatown in Los Angeles are mostly deserted amid fears about the coronavirus outbreak, Asian Americans say they are being unfairly associated with the disease. "The thing that I am actually most concerned about ...

In Syria's Idlib, there's no escaping the war, so Abdullah al-Mohammed says the only way he found to reassure his daughter Salwa was to turn the shelling into a game. A video in which the three-year-old laughs every time an explosion goes off went...

Ex-Hollywood titan Harvey Weinstein arrives at the Manhattan Criminal Court, in New York, as jurors return for the second day of deliberations in his high-profile sex crimes trial.

A White rhino calf runs and rolls in the mud while a pair of red-shanked douc langur babies enjoy their new-found pastime of swinging between trees. Over 660 babies were born and hatched at Wildlife Reserves Singapore last year.

Aerial shots of the abandoned Syrian city of Atarib, located in the western countryside of Aleppo, show the destruction of the city amid military operations and bombardment of the Syrian regime and its Russian ally. Nearly 900,000 people have been...

Thousands of residents from Tulyehualco, southeast of Mexico City, attend the funeral of a seven-year-old girl who was found dead on 11 February, a crime that sparked an uproar in the violence-wracked country.

Short videographic on the SpaceX project. SpaceX announced a new partnership Tuesday to send four tourists deeper into orbit than any private citizen before them, in a mission that could take place by 2022 and easily cost more than $100 million.

Videographic showing how holidays in space may soon become the latest craze. SpaceX has announced a new partnership to send four tourists deeper into orbit than any private citizen before them, in a mission that could take place by 2022 and easily...

Taiwan's military police shows off the latest recruits to its narcotics squad -- three dogs named Zander, Enoch and Hardy -- at a drug-finding demonstration in Taipei on Wednesday. The dogs are the military's first canine narcotics squad, and 15 m...

Unable to use her hands, arms, or legs, Afghan artist Robaba Mohammadi has defied the odds in a country that routinely discriminates against women and disabled people. Today, the 19-year-old's works sell and exhibit internationally, and she is so ...

Milan's Fashion week kicked off with a solidarity campaign for China called “China, we are with you”. The week began with a dance performance and the fashion show of New York based Chinese designer Han Wen.

South Korea's first ever female primetime main news anchor Lee So-joeong signals a change in conservative news broadcasting.

A haunting refrain pierces the night as the tribeswomen of the Gongwang Bonyo, among the most isolated people in Myanmar, dance around a campfire to bless the harvest ahead.

A Donald Trump superfan honours the American President with prayers ahead of his trip to India.

At the ninth edition of the Future Fabrics Expo in London, the textile industry showcases new and cleaner materials. 'The Sustainable Angle', a non-profit organisation, founded the expo to help revolutionise the fashion industry. At a time when fa...

Buses start transporting passengers who have tested negative for the new coronavirus as they begin leaving a cruise ship in Japan that has seen more than 500 cases of the potentially deadly disease.

An Ariane 5 rocket lifts off to launch two Japanese and South Korean telecommunications satellites from the Guiana Space Center near Kourou, French Guiana.

Afghans react after President Ashraf Ghani secures a second term, according to final results, lining him up to become the man negotiating with the Taliban over the war-torn country's future if the US agrees to withdraw its troops.

Jurors begin considering the fate of ex-Hollywood titan Harvey Weinstein following his high-profile sex crimes trial that marked a watershed moment in the #MeToo movement. The disgraced movie mogul, 67, faces life in prison if the jury of seven me...

Mocking clerics, falling in love at rallies and mending a broken society: even if Iraq's young protesters have failed to overthrow entrenched politicians, they have scored by shattering decades-old taboos.

Local Japanese residents in Yokohama react to disembarkation of passengers from Diamond Princess scheduled for Wednesday, after all of its passengers and crew members have been tested for the new coronavirus.

Samar Sheikh's neighbours used to tell her football was not for girls but the criticism stopped when her team won the very first women's championship in Syria.

Niger's Touaregs celebrate the Air festival in the northern Agadez region, featuring traditional music, camel races and crafts.

Leo Ramirez, Hector Retamal and Sebastien Ricci, reporters with Agence France Presse, are among the few journalists who covered the new Coronavirus outbreak from the epicentre of the disease in Wuhan, China, before being repatriated to France and ...

A group of protesting Mexicans chant to denounce violence against women in front of their country's National Palace, after a seven-year-old girl was murdered in the Mexico City.

Videographic showing the circuit for the Vietnam Grand Prix. Vietnam's inaugural Formula One Grand Prix will take place in Hanoi in April as planned, organisers told AFP on Tuesday, avoiding the fate of the Chinese Grand Prix which was postponed o...