Iranian dissident director Jafar Panahi won the Palme d'Or top prize at the Cannes film festival on Saturday, using his ...

As the Cannes film festival hands out its prizes, AFP looks back at some of the highlights of a politically charged fortnight ...

At least eight people were wounded in a drone and missile attack on Kyiv Saturday, city authorities said, just as Russia and ...

Daniel Noboa was sworn in Saturday for a second term as Ecuadoran president, promising to "save" his South American country ...

Gaza's civil defence agency said Saturday that an Israeli strike in the southern city of Khan Yunis killed nine children of a ...

Hasan Hadi, the first filmmaker from Iraq to be selected for the prestigious Cannes Festival, on Saturday won a top prize for ...

Belgian brothers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, whose inspiring new film "Young Mothers" won the best screenplay prize at ...

Nadia Melliti, who won best actress at the Cannes Festival Saturday for her first-ever role in a film, is a French student ...

Social media platform X was hit by a two-hour outage Saturday, prompting owner Elon Musk to say he needs to spend more time ...

The Trump administration's attempt to block Harvard, with its global reputation for academic excellence, from enrolling ...

A helicopter successfully herded 16 critically endangered banteng onto a truck in Cambodia for the first time, ...

Exploitative contracts that force young female Japanese pop stars to forego relationships and sex are at the heart of ...