For more than 30 years, plastic phones shaped like the cartoon cat Garfield have been washing up on French beaches.
The mystery is now solved: a shipping container which washed up during a storm in the 1980s was found in a hidden sea cave
📷 Fred Tanneau
Wearing a military beret and a Polish wartime resistance armband, 94-year-old Wanda Traczyk-Stawska stunned the crowd at a pro-EU rally when she thundered "Be quiet, stupid boy! You lousy bastard" at a member of a far-right group
#UPDATE
The first human trial to evaluate a candidate vaccine against the new coronavirus has begun in Seattle, US health officials said Monday, raising hopes in the global fight against the disease
We are devastated to learn of the death of AFP video journalist Arman Soldin in eastern Ukraine today.
All of our thoughts go out to his family and loved ones.
@julibriskman
VIDEO: 🇺🇸 A cyclist who was fired from her job after raising her middle finger to US President Trump's motorcade has been elected to local office in Virginia.
#JuliBriskman
, whose one-handed salute was captured in an AFP photo, beat the Republican incumbent in Loudoun County
Flags of various countries affected by the spread of
#COVID19
are projected onto the statue of the Christ Redeemer atop Corcovado hill in Rio de Janeiro
📸 Florian Plancheur
Left-wing parliamentarians dress in the colours of the rainbow as Andrzej Duda is sworn in for a second term as president at the Polish parliament in Warsaw
📸 Wojtek Radwanski
China jails citizen journalist Zhang Zhan for 4 years for reporting on the virus in Wuhan. She has been on a hunger strike since June and is reportedly force-fed via a nasal tube.
China has punished 8 virus whistleblowers so far.
📸Her lawyer Zhang Keke talks to the press
From dream to nightmare: Murtaza Ahmadi moved the world with his love for footballer Lionel Messi in 2016 - now the seven-year-old boy is living a nightmare as one of thousands of Afghans displaced by war
Voicing joy and excitement from behind face masks, tens of thousands of people flee Wuhan after a 76-day travel ban is lifted on the Chinese city where the
#coronavirus
pandemic first emerged
After Bollywood star's suicide, a TV 'witch hunt'.
India has millions of COVID-19 cases and a border stand-off with China, but the story dominating the news is how a Bollywood actress supposedly drove her ex-boyfriend to suicide with pot and black magic
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Saturday blasted firms including Nestle for carrying on business as usual with Russia "even though our children are dying", in a live address to a Swiss rally
Brazilian surfer Rodrigo Koxa broke the world record for the highest wave ever surfed, during a session in Nazare, Portugal, according to the World Surf League
Pakistan's former prime minister
#ImranKhan
accused the government on Thursday of trying to score a "technical knockout" against him, after he was granted bail on charges brought under the country's anti-terrorism act
📷
@aamirqureshi14
#UPDATE
A 210,000-year-old skull has been identified as the earliest modern human remains found outside Africa, putting the clock back on mankind's arrival in Europe by more than 150,000 years, researchers said
Jimin, a member of the K-pop supergroup BTS, has made history as the first South Korean solo artist to land the number one spot on the top US songs chart, Billboard announced Monday.
PHOTOS: A massive crowd fills Mexico City's Zocalo square to voice opposition to electoral reforms championed by President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador
@AFPphoto
📸 Nicolas Asfouri
VIDEO: Hundreds of people gather outside ousted Prime Minister Imran Khan's house, supposedly to prevent police from reaching the ex-cricket star after he was reported under the anti-terrorism act for criticising a magistrate.
.
@NASA
is investigating what may be the first crime in outer space, with astronaut Anne McClain accused of identity theft and improperly accessing her estranged wife's private financial records while on the ISS
VIDEO: Rare video captured by divers shows a 2.5-metre giant squid swimming in the waters off Japan's west coast. Giant squid are known to live in the waters around the country and occasionally wash ashore, but seeing them alive in the wild remains relatively rare.
#UPDATE
In a dramatic about-turn, the new US administration on Thursday thanked the World Health Organization (
#WHO
) for leading the global coronavirus pandemic response and vowed to remain a member state
#AnthonyFauci
#Fauci
VIDEO: 🇨🇳 Crowds packed out a water park over the weekend in the central Chinese city of
#Wuhan
, where the
#coronavirus
first emerged late last year, keen to party as the city edges back to normal life
A mysterious leaden sarcophagus discovered in the bowels of Paris' Notre-Dame cathedral after it was devastated by a fire will soon be opened and its secrets revealed, French archaeologists said
Rapid rescue.
@AFP
photographers Oli Scarff and Peter Kohalmi capture the dramatic rescue of USA's Anita Alvarez from the bottom of the pool when she fainted during the women's solo free artistic swimming finals at the Budapest 2022 World Aquatics Championships
@marietteleroux
Leftist lawmaker Gabriel Boric has become Chile's youngest-ever president at age 35, on promises of installing a "welfare state" in one of the world's most unequal countries by
@mikeldrums
#BREAKING
Ukrainian authorities say safety of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant is now secured, after a fire broke out when the station came under fire from invading Russian forces.
"The director of the plant said that the nuclear safety is now guaranteed": Oleksandr Starukh
#UPDATE
Ukraine says it will hold talks with Russia at its border with Belarus -- near the Chernobyl exclusion zone -- after a phone call between President Volodymyr Zelensky and Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko
Thousands in Russia protest Ukraine war, hundreds detained.
Up to 1,000 people gathered in the former imperial capital Saint Petersburg, where many were detained by masked police officers
#BREAKING
French energy giant TotalEnergies is facing legal action for 'complicity in war crimes' for allegedly helping fuel Russian planes that have bombed Ukraine, a source close to the case said
A decade after McDonald's shut down in Iceland, thousands of online users follow the live slow decay of the last order -- a seemingly indestructible burger with fries protected in a glass case in Snotra House, a hostel in Thykkvibaer
📸 Angelika Osiewalska
#UPDATE
In a video released by the Ukrainian president's office Friday night, Zelensky says "Special attention on Kyiv –- we cannot lose the capital ... Tonight they (Russia) will attempt a storm"
VIDEO: Wax statue of Vladimir Putin removed from Paris museum.
Russia's invasion of Ukraine prompts director of the Grevin Museum in Paris to remove the statue.
"We have never represented dictators like Hitler in the Grevin Museum, we don't want to represent Putin today"
#UPDATE
The United States will slash its military presence in Germany by 11,900 troops, relocating some to Italy and Belgium in a major shift of Washington's NATO assets, Defense Secretary Mark Esper announced Wednesday
Break in protocol -- Pope Francis stops the popemobile to attend to a policewoman who was thrown off her horse as he passed behind her in Iquique, Chile
VIDEO: Almost a year after conservationists sent out a plea to help save a species of Bolivian aquatic frog by finding a mate for Romeo, the last remaining member, his very own Juliet has been tracked down deep inside a forest
Driven by anger at the authorities' response to massive protests - and guilt that the burden of defending democracy has fallen on the city's youth - a white collar rebellion is rippling out across Hong Kong
Disgraced former K-pop star Seungri is convicted of arranging prostitution and other charges stemming from a sex and drugs scandal and jailed for three years by a military court, reports say.
The singer from popular boyband BIGBANG was found guilty on all nine counts against him
Police precinct set on fire on the third day of demonstrations as the so-called Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul seethed over the shocking police killing of a handcuffed black man
Full story:
📸 Kerem Yucel
VIDEO: The image of Murtaza Ahmadi sporting a plastic Messi jersey went viral in 2016 and later that year the Afghan boy met his idol in Qatar. In November he had to flee his home as it came under Taliban attack
#UPDATE
One million refugees have fled Ukraine in the week since Russia's invasion, UN refugee agency says.
"In just seven days we have witnessed the exodus of one million refugees from Ukraine to neighbouring countries," UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi tweets
#UPDATE
Russian airborne troops have landed in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, the Ukrainian army says.
"Russian airborne troops landed in Kharkiv... and attacked a local hospital. There is an ongoing fight"
📸 Kharkiv on March 1 following shelling from Russian forces
VIDEO: German Chancellor Angela
#Merkel
backs away from Italian PM Giuseppe
#Conte
and indicates for him to respect
#socialdistancing
as he tries to greet her at the European Summit in Brussels
#EUCO
VIDEO: Mass celebrations in Chile as pro-change camp holds big lead in vote.
Thousands flock to Santiago's emblematic Plaza Italia as the pro-change camp holds a big lead in the historic referendum to rewrite Chile's dictatorship-era constitution, according to partial results
Volunteers battle to remove oil from Paiva beach, Pernambuco state, Brazil.
Oil has washed up on more than 130 beaches along a 2,000km stretch of northern Brazil's Atlantic coastline. The source of the spill remains a mystery
📸 Leo Malafaia
VIDEO: A convoy of 29 taxis and around 60 drivers arrives back in Madrid after driving to Warsaw in Poland and returning to Spain with Ukrainians displaced by the war
VIDEO: 🇮🇹 Italians are beating the social isolation imposed by the country's coronavirus lock down by taking to their windows and singing in unison (🔊Turn on the sound)
🇬🇧 🇺🇸 It can survive bullets, explosions and chemical weapons, but 'The Beast' -- Donald Trump's famed armoured limousine was brought to a standstill by Larry the Downing Street cat
📸
@lealolivas
VIDEO: 🇧🇷 Thousands of people in Brazil's most populous city
#SaoPaulo
have protested against President
#Bolsonaro
, in particular for his handling of the Covid-19 pandemic which has claimed more than 461,000 lives in the country