Bayern Munich unveiled a statue of their late club icon Franz Beckenbauer outside their stadium on Friday. "“This monument is a piece of FC Bayern's DNA, cast in bronze,” Bayern president Herbert Hainer said at the ceremony in the presence of Beckenbauer's widow, Heidi. “It stands for Beckenbauer and everything he embodied: for style, for attitude, for Bayern. Munich is getting more than a monument here - it is a reflection of the city itself: proud, self-confident, elegant and down-to-earth. "Life and football are fleeting, but legends remain – in the midst of the FC Bayern fans, in the midst...

The struggle for primacy in this remote, long-fought-over corner of the Middle East is far from completed. From a distance, the Commonwealth military cemetery in Aden resembles an abandoned construction site. You have to drive a little way out of the town to find it, and most of the area is empty, dusty ground because the British left before they, or their enemies, could fill it. When you get closer, you see the small cluster of gravestones in the corner. And when you’re still closer, you can make out the names. Sturdy, Anglo-Saxon surnames, for the most part: Armstrong, Moffatt, Bartley, Bell...

The struggle for primacy in this remote, long-fought-over corner of the Middle East is far from completed. From a distance, the Commonwealth military cemetery in Aden resembles an abandoned construction site. You have to drive a little way out of the town to find it, and most of the area is empty, dusty ground because the British left before they, or their enemies, could fill it. When you get closer, you see the small cluster of gravestones in the corner. And when you’re still closer, you can make out the names. Sturdy, Anglo-Saxon surnames, for the most part: Armstrong, Moffatt, Bartley, Bell...

By Romain FONSEGRIVES Orem (United States) (AFP) - Boeden Seitzinger is reeling from the trauma of witnessing close-up the moment that right-wing activist and Donald Trump ally Charlie Kirk was fatally shot in the neck. "I saw blood just spraying from his carotid artery. It was obvious that he wasn't making it," the electrician, wearing a red Trump campaign cap, told AFP. "It was terrifying." The killing of Kirk Wednesday, while speaking at Utah Valley University, highlighted the extreme levels of gun violence in the United States. But Seitzinger remains adamantly opposed to imposing stricter ...

So-called territory swaps with Russia will not stop the war in Ukraine. The Russian war machine will only stop when it runs out of fuel, according to a statement from President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Putin’s goal is the occupation of all of Ukraine The President emphasized that Putin’s goal is the occupation of the entire country. "Some may think that territory exchanges, or attempts to tempt Putin with the restoration of trade with America or the world, could somehow stop this war. That is not the case. The Russian war machine will only stop when it runs out of fuel," the President said. He str...