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A ballad from Australian star Delta Goodrem and a Danish ode to clubbing will fill the airwaves in Saturday's Eurovision grand final in Vienna after making it through the second semi-final, which delivered a message in defence of LGBTQ people.

US President Donald Trump said he had made "fantastic trade deals" and settled "a lot of different problems" in his meetings with China's Xi Jinping this week, but hours after the summit ended on Friday details on exact agreements remained scarce.

German Oscar-winning actress Sandra Huller said Friday she felt guilt for Germany's role in World War II "every day" as she discussed her latest role in a historical drama.

Thailand's parliament on Friday revived a law that would enshrine the right to breathable air and tax emitters, setting up a final vote in the senate on the landmark legislation.

Bayern Munich on Friday pledged to do everything they could to give injury-hit star Alphonso Davies a chance to be fit to play for Canada at the World Cup.

Everton captain Seamus Coleman will end his 17-year playing career with the club at the end of the season.

Germany's energy-hungry industries have suffered sharp falls in output since the start of the Ukraine war, data showed Friday, with little hope of an imminent rebound.

Newcastle manager Eddie Howe said Anthony Gordon could have made his final appearance for the club after reports that the England forward is set to join Bayern Munich.

Denmark's Queen Margrethe, 86, has undergone an angioplasty procedure after being admitted to hospital this week for chest pain, the palace said Friday in a statement.

In the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, a conflict that drags on despite peace talks has taken a dangerous new turn, with civilians now struck from the air by drones, far from the front line.

Shooters have killed a 15-year-old in France's western city of Nantes in a suspected score-settling incident linked to drugs, a prosecutor said.

A New Zealand passenger from the hantavirus-stricken MV Hondius cruise ship is in hospital quarantine in Taiwan, Taiwanese health authorities said Friday.

Hundreds of AI-controlled robots operating in unison, talking to each other to autonomously attack targets -- a dystopian vision of the future of war that Ukraine's defence industry wants to make a reality.

Russia and Ukraine exchanged 205 prisoners of war each on Friday, Moscow and Kyiv said, a week after US President Donald Trump announced a large swap would take place between the warring sides.

Scientists have identified a massive new dinosaur from remains discovered in Thailand, with the creature estimated to have weighed as much an nine adult elephants.

Donald Trump's summit with China's leader Xi Jinping in Beijing this week was the latest in decades of high-level diplomatic encounters between the two countries marked by drama, tension and surprising breakthroughs.

Indian billionaire industrialist Gautam Adani has agreed to pay a multi-million-dollar settlement in a US civil court case linked to corruption without admitting guilt, his company said Friday.

A new idea for combatting America's horrific problem of school shootings is to unleash an unarmed drone to confront the attacker, like a giant buzzing insect.

Guney was once a water-rich village fed by 50 springs in Turkey's western Usak province, but since a gold mine opened 20 years ago, they have all dried up.

Rows of green tobacco plants stretched towards the bush in a vast field of a crop that has rebounded to record levels in Zimbabwe, driven largely by smallholders contracted to Chinese firms.

Endangered Egyptian vultures, with their vivid yellow face and white plumes, would usually be nesting across the Balkans in their dozens by April.

Europe's Baltic states lie just half an hour away -- sealed off and on edge -- from the Russian border city of Pskov, where the locals shrug off fears their country will attack as they play their part in supporting Moscow's army fighting in Ukraine.

Walking through the grounds of Armenia's most sacred church, 37-year-old worshipper Nara Sargsyan spoke in hushed tones as she criticised her government's attacks on the clergy.

India's state-run oil companies raised petrol and diesel prices by more than three percent on Friday as disruption to energy supplies due to the Iran war mounts pressure on the economy.

Injured Kaoru Mitoma was left out of Japan's World Cup squad on Friday in a major blow to their chances of progressing beyond the last 16 for the first time.

Malaysia will not oppose a bid by a fugitive businessman involved in the massive 1MDB corruption scandal to seek a pardon from US President Donald Trump, Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said Friday.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi began a five-nation tour on Friday, heading to the United Arab Emirates before Europe, overshadowed by energy and supply-chain worries due to the Iran war.

A passenger from the hantavirus-stricken MV Hondius cruise ship is in quarantine on tiny Pitcairn Island, a volcanic outcrop in the South Pacific famously settled by mutineers from the HMS Bounty.

Serial world record setter Armand 'Mondo' Duplantis will be on hand to kick off this season's Diamond League series when he takes to the pole vault runway at the Shanghai/Keqiao meet this weekend.

Arsenal can move within touching distance of the Premier League crown before title rivals Manchester City next play as a gripping race enters its final stretch.

Ukrainian emergency services said Friday that a massive Russian missile and drone attack that pummelled Kyiv the previous day killed at least 24 people, further shredding hopes of a halt to Moscow's grinding invasion.

Tickets in South Korea for a rare match against a visiting North Korean team sold out within half a day, Seoul's football association told AFP on Friday.