After joining IS aged 15, German woman asks to go home
AFP | Four years after leaving Germany to live under the Islamic State group, 19-year-old Leonora has fled the jihadists' last bastion in eastern Syria...
Austrian lake offers climate haven for Dutch ice skaters
AFP | For over two decades, lack of ice has prevented a hallowed fixture in the Dutch ice skating calendar. But devotees of this national...
Refugees struggle for work amid Greek jobs drought
AFP | After escaping poverty in Pakistan and spending two hard years in Greece without family or money, Manassif Raza proudly stands in his brand...
Game over for gamers? UK studios count Brexit costs
AFP | Could it possibly be game over for the bright minds behind "Grand Theft Auto" and other global gaming hits? UK developers have been...
US banks shifting some London staff ahead of Brexit deadline
AFP | With two months until Brexit takes effect, US banks have begun transferring some London staff to Continental Europe and drawing up contingency plans...
Hidden homeless: England´s rural rough sleepers
AFP | In an idyllic stretch of countryside, Benny Clapp has made his home in a tent beside a river near Canterbury in Kent, a...
Ice instruments melt musical boundaries in Italian Alps
AFP | When Tim Linhart started making instruments from ice they were more likely to explode with a bang than produce music, but things have...
Hospitals filling up in Europe’s most polluted capital
AFP | Children are missing school and hospitals are running out of beds as a noxious smog smothers Skopje, earning the small Macedonian city the...
French jihadists in Syria may be allowed home, Paris says
AFP | France on Tuesday opened the door to repatriating more than a hundred jihadists being held in Syria, in a marked change in stance...
Captured Irish jihadist tells of dying days of ‘caliphate’
AFP | From detention in northern Syria, alleged Irish jihadist Alexandr Bekmirzaev describes hunger and fear as missiles pounded down on the last shreds of...
Brexit deal not open to renegotiation: EU leaders
AFP | European leaders moved quickly Tuesday to reject an attempt by Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May to re-open talks on the Brexit divorce deal,...
No butter, no cream: Vegan rules at French pastry match
AFP | Contestants duking it out at this year's World Pastry Cup in Lyon on Monday had to wrestle with a challenge previously unthinkable in...