Butajīra (Ethiopia) (AFP) – Scheicho Scheifa is haunted by the fear of going blind. A disease called trachoma has turned his eyelids inwards, causing his eyelashes to scar his corneas so badly that ...

On a frosty Polish winter evening, 96-year-old Esther Senot told the 100 or so shivering students at Auschwitz-Birkenau how she was a teenager much like them when she was first brought to the Nazi ...

Venezuelan Josnexcy Martinez, who is staying at a shelter in a Texas border city, said she's afraid of getting swept up in a raid targeting migrants even though she entered the country legally.

Iraqi grocery store owner Abu Amjad al-Zubaidi is grappling with asthma, a condition his doctor blames on emissions from a nearby power plant that fills his Baghdad neighbourhood with noxious smoke.

Flying through Bangkok's cloudless blue skies, a small aircraft sprays a white mist over a thick haze of pea soup smog below.

Africa's reliance on World Health Organization support faces a critical test after Donald Trump withdrew the United States – ...

Yemen's Huthi rebels accused Washington on Thursday of designating them a terrorist group for supporting the Palestinian ...

Political activists in Germany said Thursday they had projected an image of Elon Musk's infamous raised-arm salute and the ...

Twenty-five families of victims and survivors of apartheid-era crimes are suing the South African government over a "gross ...

Madison Keys fought back from a set down on Thursday to shock Iga Swiatek in a nail-biter and set up an Australian Open final ...

The International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor on Thursday said he was seeking arrest warrants against senior Taliban ...

The first Turkish Airlines flight in 13 years landed in the Syrian capital Damascus on Thursday, an AFP correspondent ...