Musician Aria Baron, best known as the former guitarist of rock band GIGI, passed away on Tuesday, weeks after being treated for COVID-19.

Belgian choreographer Jan Fabre, one of Europe's most celebrated and controversial artists, has been referred to a Belgian criminal court on charges of sexual harassment in the workplace, a court statement said on Monday.

The sheer number of COVID-19 deaths has made it all too easy to forget that behind the statistics lie the stories of real people who passed too soon. In the series “People, not numbers” their lives are remembered by those who knew them best.

The coal-fired tandoor oven sends a mouth-watering scent wafting through the Mumbai kitchen as celebrity chef Saransh Goila, maker of the world's "best butter chicken" according to MasterChef Australia, takes a break from Covid-19 relief efforts and resumes work.

One of France's most prominent TV journalists will not face charges over claims he raped or sexually assaulted several women at the height of his career, after prosecutors said Friday they were dropping their inquiry.

Thousands of mourners Friday attended the funeral of Palestinian human rights activist Nizar Banat, an AFP correspondent said, a day after he died in custody following his violent arrest by Palestinian security forces.

Indonesian icons is a regular series highlighting notable people from throughout the country. In this installment, we are covering the man behind a beloved 1980s children’s character.

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos will be flying to space next month aboard the first human spaceflight launched by his rocket company, Blue Origin. Now more than 110,000 people have signed two petitions to bar him from returning to Earth.

The singer of reggae band Steven & Coconut Treez, Steven “Tepeng” Nugraha Kaligis, died on Tuesday morning after a battle with COVID-19. He was 46 years old.

Ons Jabeur beat Daria Kasatkina of Russia 7-5, 6-4 in an engrossing hour and a half tussle in Birmingham.

Harvey Weinstein can be extradited to California from New York to face rape and sexual assault charges.

Anand won his first world title aged 30, and enjoyed great rivalries with the likes of Russian champions Gary Kasparov, Vladimir Kramnik and Soviet-born Israeli Boris Gelfand.

Indonesian badminton player Markis Kido passed away at 36 on Monday night, reportedly from a heart attack.

Veteran war correspondent Christiane Amanpour on Monday announced that she has recently undergone "major surgery" for ovarian cancer, and faced months of chemotherapy treatment.

A father allegedly killed his two young daughters at his house before dumping their bodies at sea off the Spanish island of Tenerife, according to a preliminary judicial investigation published on Saturday into the case which has shocked the nation.

A teenager who recorded the murder of George Floyd in a clear and unrelenting single shot with her cellphone was recognized on Friday by the arbiters of the highest honors in U.S. journalism.

The 70-year-old made a clear statement by wearing a jacket with the word "LOVE" on the back, as the couple met British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his wife Carrie on the eve of a G7 leaders' summit.

Just days after the birth of their second child, named after Queen Elizabeth, Britain's Prince Harry and his wife Meghan have become embroiled in a spat with the BBC, along with a threat of legal action, over whether they had consulted the monarch first.

Actor Simu Liu shared his feelings of unhappiness over Kim’s Convenience via his Facebook account on Wednesday. During the show, he felt there was lack of mentoring from the producing team. He also complained about the low pay for the cast even though the show was successful.  

Teenager Fatima Noori and her fellow pupils hug and pray as they gather in their Kabul classroom, just weeks after bombs exploded right outside the school gates, killing scores of their classmates.

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle announced Sunday the birth of their daughter Lilibet Diana, who was born in California after a year of turmoil in Britain's royal family.

In February 1968 the Fab Four fetched up at Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's ashram (retreat) in northern India, seeking spirituality, new experiences and refuge from Beatlemania back home.

Before he was killed, Khet Thi's poems railed eloquently against Myanmar's sudden coup, joining a deluge of protest verse celebrating democracy demonstrators and defying the military's brutal war on words.

Stella Moris teamed up in Geneva with Nils Melzer, the UN special rapporteur on torture, and Geneva mayor Frederique Perler to call for Assange release and the scrapping of extradition proceedings.

Trump was suspended from Facebook and Instagram after posting a video during the attack by his fired-up supporters challenging his election loss.

Armed with pioneering AI and a sharp nose for youth trends, Zhang Yiming revolutionised internet video with popular app TikTok and minted himself a fortune.

Indonesia's hijab-wearing, headbanging VOB count some of rock music's biggest stars among their fans, but the all-female heavy metal band faced a tougher battle in winning over their parents.

Naftali Bennett, Israel's likely next prime minister, is a self-made tech millionaire who dreams of annexing most of the occupied West Bank.

Once, Abraham Barberi was known as the "pastor of rappers," host of Christian hip hop concerts targeting young drug dealers in Mexico in hopes of putting them on a different path.

In 2018, Karin Kneissl, then Austria's foreign minister, made headlines when she invited Putin to her wedding and danced with him.