Nations agree on rulebook for Paris climate treaty

China on Wednesday reported 52 new coronavirus deaths, the lowest figure in more than three weeks. The number of fresh coronavirus cases has declined in China, with multiple provinces reporting zero new infections in recent days.

Workers are disinfecting buses and subway trains in Iran where more than a dozen people have died from the coronavirus outbreak.

People take part in a traditional procession in San Barnaba Square on the last day of the Venice Carnival where many wear mask used by doctors centuries ago to treat patients afflicted with the plague.

"Today is truly a landmark moment for survivors of rape and sexual assault," says actress and "Silence Breaker" Rosanna Arquette as she and other actresses who came forward to accuse Harvey Weinstein of sexual assault and triggered the #MeToo move...

Eléonore Laloux is the first candidate with Down Syndrome to stand for municipal elections in France, after being approached by Arras mayor Frédéric Leturque. Committed to cleanliness and accessibility in her city, Laloux has fought for years for ...

In a small factory in northern Albania, artists delicately paint, gild and glue tens of thousands of one-of-a-kind Venetian masks that revellers around the world have been donning for carnival season.

Two Russian leftist activists return to court to face controversial terror charges of belonging to a group that plotted attacks but who supporters say are victims of a security services conspiracy and torture. Viktor Filinkov, 25, and Yuli Boyarsh...

Pupils from kindergarten to high school levels are heading back to the classroom after an extended winter break over coronavirus fears. They have to undergo temperature checks and don face masks. In addition, certain sports activities are tempora...

Egyptians in Cairo react to the death of Egypt's former president Hosni Mubarak who ruled with an iron fist for 30 years before being deposed amid street protests, defending his chequered reign to the end.

Sweden's foreign ministry is summoning the Chinese ambassador after Swedish book publisher Gui Minhai was jailed in China for 10 years on charges of illegally providing intelligence abroad. "We have been seeking confirmation from Chinese authorit...

Displaced Syrians fleeing a deadly regime onslaught on the Idlib region since December have taken shelter in a funeral hall in the town of Sarmada, spending their days amid tombstones in the the adjacent graveyard.

Chinese robotics firms have come out with some eye catching solutions to the coronavirus crisis. Robot 'Thor-1' has been described by state media as a 'hardcore weapon' of 'extraordinary power'. It's being demonstrated in a tech park in Hangzhou i...

"All nations, including Iran, should tell the truth about the coronavirus and cooperate with international aid organizations," says US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo during a news conference at the State Department in Washington.

"So far the reduction in violence is working" in Afghanistan, says US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo as the United States and the Taliban are expected to sign a deal on Saturday to withdraw US troops from the country.

Former Armenian president Serzh Sarkisian goes on trial charged with corruption in a case his supporters claim is politically-motivated, nearly two years after his ousting from power in a popular uprising.

Third-graders from a Tokyo primary school experience what it is like to be a blind athlete in an event marking six months to the Tokyo Paralympics. They put on eye masks and pair up with classmates to learn how blind athletes compete in the games.

At a Beijing "disinfection station", a driver for a ride-hailing company installs a plastic shield between the front and rear seats of his car to reassure passengers during the deadly coronavirus outbreak.

Don Nunzio Rosi, local priest of the quarantined italian hamlet of Zorlesco, in the municipality of Casalpusterlengo, says "everything has changed" in the village where a "surrealistic" and "unrealistc" atmosphere reigns. In this little town locat...

Equipped with a brand new bike, France's track cyclists are setting their sights on the Tokyo Olympics. But before then, the athletes will have a chance to prove themselves at the World Championships.

Videographic on air pollution. Nearly 90 percent of the 200 cities beset by the world's highest levels of deadly micro-pollution are in China and India.

Democrats take the stage for a debate in South Carolina on Tuesday in what could be the final opportunity for Joe Biden and the party's other presidential candidates to halt Bernie Sanders' drive to the nomination.The long road to the White House ...

Nigerian fashion designer Kenneth Ize makes a storming Paris fashion week debut with his "fairy godmother", supermodel Naomi Campbell, closing the show.

Thousands of celebrities, athletes, family members and fans pour into the Staples Center in Los Angeles to honor basketball great Kobe Bryant, who died last month in a helicopter crash that also killed his 13-year-old daughter Gianna and seven oth...

Iranians have been suffering from scarce medicine supplies even before the new coronavirus broke out in the central city of Qom and spread, claiming several lives and fostering panic amid a shortage of face masks.