The latest execution in Burkina Faso was in 1988, according to rights group Amnesty International. It concerned four leaders ...

Seoul (AFP) – Olympic shooting star Kim Ye-ji is temporarily putting down her gun to spend time with family, her agency told ...

Mexico City (AFP) – Gunmen in a truck pulled up to a bar in central Mexico and opened fire, killing 10 people, authorities ...

North Korea's Under-17 Women's World Cup-winning footballers received a heroes' welcome back in the capital Pyongyang, AFP ...

After jihadists jailed him in 2014, Iraqi religious scholar Muhammad al-Attar said he would sometimes pull his prison blanket ...

Naseem Shah and Shaheen Shah Afridi both claimed three wickets as an understrength Australia set Pakistan just 141 to win ...

South Korea's Kim A-lim shot a four-under-par 68 in the final round Saturday to win the Lotte Championship by two strokes and ...

Cuba's government said Saturday it arrested an unspecified number of people who staged demonstrations when a hurricane left ...

Nathan McSweeney won the race Sunday to open for Australia in the first of five Tests against India this month, while Josh ...

Swimmer Florent Manaudou is feeling glum, French MPs despair over a plummeting sports budget and the Eiffel Tower has lost ...

Mauritius began voting on Sunday in a close-fought election race that has been clouded by a wire-tapping scandal in a nation ...

Lee Kang-in and Bradley Barcola both scored twice in the first half as Paris Saint-Germain shrugged off their latest ...