AFP reporter Emmanuel Duparcq was awarded the prestigious Albert Londres prize Saturday for his coverage of events in Pakistan and Afghanistan focusing on the activities of the Taliban.

The World Association of Journalists and Press Editors has awarded an AFP videographic first prize en the category "best online animated graphic" at the Asian Conference on Digital Media in Hong Kong

AJDABIYA/SIRTE/TRIPOLI (AFP) - The first shots rang out as ominous but faint pops while the Libyan army Land Cruiser was still several hundred metres away but, as it roared down upon us, the gunfire built into an insistent volley of sharp, earsplitting cracks.

TOKYO - Top Japanese fashion school Bunka Gakuen and Agence France-Presse on Tuesday launched a service providing global news and archive material to Japanese universities and higher learning institutions.

Dilnaz Boga, an Indian reporter and photographer, received the Kate Webb Prize from Agence France-Presse on Wednesday for her courageous investigative work in Indian-administered Kashmir.

AFP videos spanning Politics, Fashion, Sports, Entertainment, Health and Technology are now available on <a rel="external" href="http://www.blinkx.com/">www.blinkx.com</a>.

The Agence France-Presse board on Friday elected Pierre Louette to a second three-year term as chairman and chief executive of the international news agency.

Two Agence France-Presse journalists and a Getty Images photographer arrested in Libya on Saturday have been released in Tripoli.

In a March 22 letter regarding detained Agence France-Presse journalists Dave Clark and Roberto Schmidt, as well as photographer Joe Raedle from Getty Images,

AFP has learned this morning of the arrest of two of its journalists in Libya as well as a photographer for its partner Getty Images.