El Chapo life sentence means 'no escape, no return': US attorney

Since Game of Thrones began its meteoric rise in 2011 fans of the show have been flocking to Northern Ireland, where much of the series was shot. The once conflict-riven province has become a pilgrimage trail for diehard fans hoping to experience ...

Ukrainian presidential candidates Petro Poroshenko and Volodymyr Zelensky arrive at Kiev's Olympic stadium for a debate ahead of the presidential runoff. Some 60,000 spectators are expected to attend the first and only policy head-to-head of the c...

Jerry Leen, Eros, Ice... a dozen rescue dogs, search dogs and disease or gas-detecting dogs - mostly Belgian Malinois shepherds - attend the "Hero Dogs" awards in Paris to receive their prizes.

This week on Africa Weekly, we focus on Mali, where French and Malian troops say they have killed or captured 30 jihadists as part of the anti-insurgent offensive, Operation Barkhane. And we stay in Mali, which has reclaimed its place as the leadi...

A mass is held for the 29 German tourists who died when their bus tumbled down a slope and crashed into a house on the Portuguese island of Madeira.

Several thousand people attend annual Good Friday Way of the Cross procession by Notre-Dame in Paris. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES

Archaeologists display and work on artifacts from the newly-discovered tomb of Shedsu-Djehuty at the Draa Abul Naga necropolis in Luxor's West Bank, 700 km south of Cairo. The tomb dates back to the 18th Dynasty and is considered one of the larges...

Workers and firemen continue working on Notre-Dame, reinforcing fragile points of the building four days after the fire that ravaged the cathedral.

The world's appreciation for cocoa is centuries-old: the ancient Maya were drinking hot chocolate in Central America as far back as 400 BC.

Videographic illustrating how avalanches occur. Three world-renowned professional mountaineers -- two Austrians and an American -- were missing and presumed dead after an avalanche on a western Canadian summit.

People in the Philippines mark Good Friday with ritual crucifixions and self-flagellation -- extreme affirmations of faith performed every Easter in Asia's Catholic outpost. Nearly 80 percent of people in the Philippines are Catholic, a legacy of ...

Supporters wait in line to pay their respects to Peru’s ex-president Alan Garcia, during his wake at the headquarters of the American Popular Revolutionary Alliance (APRA) party in Lima. The former president killed himself as police were about to ...

In South Sudan horrors abound of war, ethnic violence, rape, hunger and displacement. But for civilians living in the shadow of conflict, the greatest danger is often being cut off from health services, whether due to violence, or lack of developm...

Work begins to strengthen the gables of Notre-Dame's northern transverse, one of several strategic points fragilised by a blaze which threatened to destroy the cathedral.

Syrians ride their horses during the Al-Sham International Arabian Horse Festival in Damascus, as the country celebrates the evacuation day, commemorating the independence from the French mandate in 1946.

Videographic on the art of filmmaking. Veteran directors Ken Loach and Terrence Malick head the line-up of a gritty and highly political Cannes film festival next month, its director Thierry Fremaux said Thursday.

Ivanka Trump, daughter of the US president, attends the first Women's Entrepreneurship Financing (We-Fi) summit in West Africa in Ivory Coast.

People give alms to Buddhist monks during a yearly celebration at sunrise in Luang Prabang.

A quarter of a century into democracy and South Africans, even highly skilled individuals, are finding it hard to get jobs. Officially 27.1 percent of the country's employable people are jobless, with the youth unemployment rate hovering at 53 per...

Videographic on the Cannes film festival. Directors Ken Loach and Terrence Malick head the line-up of a "highly political" Cannes film festival next month, its director Thierry Fremaux said.

Short videographic locating the Palais des Festivals in Cannes, which hosts the famous French film festival. Directors Ken Loach and Terrence Malick head the line-up of a "highly political" Cannes film festival next month, its director Thierry Fre...

French president Emmanuel Macron hosts the emergency services at the Elysée to thank them for saving Notre-Dame cathedral.

Videographic on gun control in the US ahead of the 20th anniversary of the Columbine High School massacre in which 13 people died and more than 20 others were wounded.

Videographic on VAR. Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola insisted VAR does produce "fair football" despite a cruel Champions League quarter-final exit on away goals to Tottenham after a pulsating tie ended 4-4 on aggregate.