Protesters gather in Italy Square in Santiago

December snow flurries in Serbia haven't stopped Aleksandar Tanic from cultivating his flaming-hot crop: crinkly red chilli peppers considered to be the spiciest in the world. The former electrician started growing the peppers in southern Serbia o...

Former democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi leaves the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague after the second day of trial, where she faced calls for Myanmar to "stop the genocide" of Rohingya Muslims as she personally led her country's def...

Three years after being ousted from power, former Gambian dictator Yahya Jammeh is still revered by a part of the population. This is despite the damning testimonies heard at the Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission, the body responsib...

Videographic looking at CO2. Swedish activist Greta Thunberg on Wednesday accused wealthier nations of inventing ways to avoid slashing their greenhouse gas emissions, branding their climate action "misleading" at a summit in Madrid.

Videographic on endangered species. Already facing the threat of habitat destruction, hundreds of plant and animal species are now under further pressure from manmade climate change, the IUCN has said in its updated "Red List of Threatened Species".

French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe arrives at the press conference where he is due to unveil the details of a pension reform plan workers fear will leave them poorer. Unions have vowed to resist until the plan is withdrawn.

At least one person is killed and dozens are wounded as a bomb explodes close to the largest US military base in Afghanistan, damaging homes and a mosque near Bagram Airfield.

Voters backing Bougainville's independence from Papua New Guinea have won a landslide referendum victory, according to results released Wednesday -- a major step toward the troubled isles becoming the world's newest nation.

Myanmar's civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi tells the UN's top court there was no proof of "genocidal intent" behind her country's military campaign against Rohingya Muslims.

Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar's former democracy icon arrives at the International Court of Justice in The Hague for the second day of a trial over the bloody military crackdown in which thousands of people were killed and around 740,000 Rohingya mino...

French politician Isabelle Balkany arrives in court for the start of her and her husband's appeal trial for tax fraud. Her husband Patrick, the longtime mayor of Levallois-Perret and a veteran player in right-wing politics, is in prison for money ...

Voters backing Bougainville's independence from Papua New Guinea have won a landslide referendum victory, according to results released Wednesday -- a major step toward the troubled isles becoming the world's newest nation. The chairman of the B...

Thousands of people rally outside Sydney Town Hall to demand urgent climate action from Australia's government, as bushfires continue to burn along the country's east coast.

Colombian police fire tear gas at demonstrators in Bogota as they try to occupy the National University, stopping traffic and disrupting public transportation.

Hundreds of demonstrators gather in central Stockholm to protest the award of the Nobel literature prize to Peter Handke as the author collected his award in the Swedish capital. Handke faced protests and boycotts over his backing of Serbia during...

Mexico's prized xoloitzcuintle, hairless black dogs named by the Aztecs for the god of death, Xolotl, have become cool once again in the 21st century -- Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera had one and they are now the dog of choice for 20- and 30-somethi...

"It's more than a nightmare!" At the Gare de l'Est train station, exasperated users face heavily-impacted transport on the sixth consecutive day of strikes.

Thousands of Argentines celebrate with a concert in Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires as center-left Alberto Fernandez takes office as Argentina's new president and Cristina Kirchner as vice-president. Argentines celebrate in the streets of Bu...

Argentines celebrate in the streets of Buenos Aires as Alberto Fernandez takes office as Argentina's new president and Cristina Kirchner as vice-president.

The United States, Mexico and Canada sign a deal finalising their new trade agreement after more than two years of arduous negotiations and paving the way to ratification.

As the sun sets on Paris, protesters opposed to Emmanuel Macron's pension reforms gather at the eastern Denfert-Rochereau square. Across France, hundreds of thousands of people demonstrate on the sixth day of a transport strike that has caused tra...

Dozens of relatives wait at a military base in Chile's capital for information on a Chilean Air Force plane that went missing with 38 people aboard, after departing from the southern city of Punta Arenas en route to Chile's Antarctic base of Eduar...

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says he warned Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov of reprisals if Moscow interferes in next year's presidential election.

In Sweden, the pension reform that came into effect in 1999 has a mixed record with some winners, but most pensioners feel that they are having a difficult end of the month and are concerned about a rising retirement age.