Barcelona — Nokia showed off Monday a new range of smartphones powered by Google's Android operating system, even as it is being taken over by Microsoft. The Finnish group unveiled three Nokia X smartphone models at the opening of the four-day ...

Cairo — Presidential hopeful Hamdeen Sabbahi said he fears a return to autocratic rule in Egypt, telling AFP that the army chief, a likely election frontrunner, has failed to dispel these concerns. Sabbahi, 59, who came third in the 2012 presidential election that ...

New Delhi — A leopard sparked panic in a north Indian city when it strayed inside a hospital, a cinema and an apartment block before evading captors, an official said Monday. Authorities closed schools in Meerut, 60 kilometres (37 miles) northeast of the ...

Mexico City — Mexico has finally caught its most powerful drug kingpin, but other capos nicknamed "El Mayo," "La Tuta" and "El Mencho" remain on the loose, ready to take the crown. While the capture of Sinaloa cartel boss Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman is a ...

Beirut — Fierce clashes raged Friday between Syrian troops and rebels in northeastern Damascus as government warplanes raided insurgent strongholds, a monitoring group said. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said at least seven ...

Kiev — 1329 GMT: Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has condemned threatened Western sanctions against Ukrainian officials as an "attempt at bullying". "The possibility of sanctions is nothing but an attempt at bullying," Lavrov says during a press ...

Seoul — Thirty years ago, South Korea's state broadcaster KBS decided to help reunite families separated by the chaos of the Korean War, and put together a live TV special with a 95-minute time slot. The programme ended up over-running; not by hours, ...

Bangui (Central African Republic) — International peacekeepers went door-to-door in the Central African Republic capital Bangui Saturday seizing weapons from militia accused of committing atrocities against the country's Muslim minority.

Aden — A South African held by Al-Qaeda militants in Yemen is still alive five days after the expiration of a ransom ultimatum in which his captors had threatened to kill him, a pro-government militia leader told AFP. Pierre Korkie, 56, was abducted along with ...

Rome — Aged just 39, Italy's brash centre-left leader Matteo Renzi could be in line to be the next prime minister with a wave of support from Italians who seem to like his brand of plain-speaking and web-savvy politics. Elected leader of the Democratic Party in ...

London — Flooding in Britain spread along the River Thames and threatened London on Tuesday, as the Environment Agency warned that yet more rain is on the way. "There are still 16 severe flood warnings in place along the Thames as water levels in the ...

Johannesburg — A South African court declared left-wing firebrand Julius Malema provisionally insolvent on Monday, deepening his tax troubles but leaving him free to contest the upcoming election. Malema was expelled from the ruling ANC in 2012 and ...

Addis Ababa — A new round of peace talks between South Sudan's government and rebels aimed at ending a nearly two-month-old conflict in the world's youngest nation has been postponed, officials said Monday. The talks, which were due to open in ...

Geneva — Syria's warring sides launched a new round of peace talks Monday, as an agreement from the first round last month was being implemented with aid convoys evacuating the besieged city of Homs. The UN and Arab League mediator, veteran ...

Damascus — A truce that has allowed the evacuation of hundreds of civilians from besieged districts of Syria's Homs was extended for three days but fresh peace talks in Switzerland bogged down in mutual recriminations. The extension of the tenuous truce ...

Bangui (Central African Republic) — A weekend of violence and looting in the Central African capital has left at least 11 people reported dead, including two Muslims who were gruesomely lynched and a lawmaker gunned down in a drive-by shooting.