Cairo, Egypt| AFP | A search and rescue operation was under way Thursday after an EgyptAir flight with 69 people on board vanished from radar en route from Paris to Cairo, the airline said A tweet on the airline’s official account said flight MS804 left Paris at 11:09 pm …

Paris, France | AFP | China and India are home to more than a third of people with mental illness, but only a tiny fraction of them receive medical help, according to studies released Wednesday. There are more people in the world’s two most populous nations coping with mental, neurological …

Kano, Nigeria | AFP | One of 219 schoolgirls held hostage by Boko Haram Islamists for more than two years has been found, the military and activists said Wednesday, the first rescue that has raised hopes for those still being held. Amina Ali was discovered on Tuesday in the Sambisa …

FULL-TIME: Heartbreak for #LFC as they suffer a 3-1 defeat to Sevilla in the Europa League final pic.twitter.com/KvC8QvJ4pG — Liverpool FC (@LFC) May 18, 2016 Basel, Switzerland | AFP | Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp said he will give it “everything I have” to reach another final after collecting his fifth …

Lausanne, Switzerland | AFP | Thirty-one athletes from 12 countries failed doping tests after new analysis of samples taken from the 2008 Beijing Olympics and could be banned from the Rio Games, the IOC said Tuesday. The 31, who took part in six different sports, were among 454 samples retested …

Washington, United States | AFP | A 64-year-old man who lost most of his penis to cancer is recovering well after undergoing the United States’ first penis transplant operation, doctors said Monday. The 15-hour surgery took place earlier this month at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, and is the third …

Kingston, Jamaica | AFP | Jamaican sprint superstar Usain Bolt is undergoing treatment in Germany for what his coach described as an “aggravated hamstring injury” following his first race of the season, local radio reported Monday. Glen Mills, Bolt’s coach, said the two-time Olympic 100m and 200m champion had tweaked …

Beijing, China | AFP | The mayhem of China’s Cultural Revolution will never be repeated, state-run media said Tuesday, breaking their silence after the 50th anniversary of its start saw little state-sanctioned discussion. May 16 marked half a century since the 1966 internal Communist party declaration of the movement, which …

  Nairobi, Kenya | AFP | Kenyan police fired tear gas and beat opposition demonstrators with truncheons Monday to stop them storming the offices of the electoral commission to demand its dissolution. Hundreds of protesters were prevented from reaching the offices of the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC). Some …

Luanda, Angola | AFP | Domingos Ngozulu shudders as he recalls the fate of his baby son. The child was born with breathing difficulties last December in a public paediatric centre in the Angolan capital of Luanda. Grimly aware of the shortages afflicting the country’s health system, Ngozulu, a handyman …