US President Barack Obama has urged Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas not to let the opportunity for peace "slip away", on the eve of new Mideast peace talks at the White House.
Tony Blair “has reopened old wounds” with his autobiography, published Wednesday, with his attack on one-time friend and successor Gordon Brown. The British press analyses what it means for the future of the Labour Party.
Pakistani authorities in the eastern city of Lahore say they have tightened security as locals mourn the deaths of at least 35 people killed in a triple suicide bombing on a Shiite religious procession on Wednesday.
France's Defence Ministry said on Wednesday that three French soldiers injured last month in an operation in Afghanistan had in fact been hit by friendly fire, due to "a series of misunderstandings".
The second FRANCE24-Radio France International Web Documentary Award has been won by “Prison Valley”, a powerful production created by French journalists David Dufresne and Philippe Brault.
Apple has unveiled its latest line of high-tech gadgets and services, including a new miniature iPod Nano with a touch display and a potential rival to Facebook and MySpace – Ping, the company’s very own social network.
Darren Aronofsky's latest film “Black Swan” opened the Venice Film Festival’s 67th edition on Wednesday, bringing the Golden Lion-winning director back to the Lido.
In a rare Oval Office address on Tuesday evening local time, US President Barack Obama officially marked the end of US combat operations in Iraq and said the most urgent task facing Americans now was to "restore our economy".
French Socialist leader Martine Aubry, a vocal critic of the government’s policy of closing traveller camps and "repatriating", non-French inhabitants, faces accusations of hypocrisy after ordering camps closed in Lille, where she is mayor.
With just a few days to go before France’s first Euro 2012 qualifier against Belarus, 1998 World Cup hero Zinedine Zidane visited his former teammate Laurent Blanc, now in charge of Les Bleus.
The US smacked Iran on the basketball court 88-51 on Wednesday, making four for four wins at the Basketball World Championship in Istanbul, Turkey. The same day, Angola shocked Germany 92-88 to secure a spot in the last 16.
Over the past few years, the city of Venice has set up multiple partnerships with commercial groups such as Coca-Cola to fund the restoration of its heritage, in exchange for enormous advertising billboards on the city's historic buildings.
The arrival of four senior NASA officials and a delivery of hot food and music has lifted the spirits of the 33 trapped miners and their rescuers, despite warnings from the specialists that “false hopes” must be avoided.
French police have searched the home of France's richest woman, the billionaire L'Oréal heiress Liliane Bettencourt, over ongoing allegations a Parisian society photographer took advantage of her to get written into her will.
The Burmese opposition is gearing up ahead of the upcoming parliamentary elections in November. A young Burmese man told us how he and other activists are expressing their dissatisfaction with the ruling junta through rap music and street art.
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