International

A Nasa spacecraft is attempting to make history with the closest ever approach to the Sun. The Parker Solar Probe is plunging into our star's...

Honda and Nissan plan to merge as the two Japanese firms seek to fight back against competition from the Chinese car industry. Joining forces would...

A man has been charged with murder in connection with the death of a woman who was set on fire on a subway train...

Russian scientists have unveiled the remains of a 50,000-year-old baby mammoth found in thawing permafrost in the remote Yakutia region of Siberia during the...

US President, Joe Biden has commuted the sentences of 37 out of 40 federal death row inmates, switching their penalty to life in prison...

A man has been arrested in New York in connection with the death of a woman who was set on fire on a subway...

Cyclone Chido has killed 94 people in Mozambique since it made landfall in the east African country last week, local authorities have said. The country's National...

US immigration authorities last year deported the largest number of undocumented immigrants in nearly a decade, surpassing the record of Donald Trump's first term...

Getty Images A file picture of a Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200 - similar to the one which operated flight MH370Getty ImagesThe Malaysian government says...

King Mohammed VI of Morocco has facilitated the release of four French nationals detained in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, since December 2023.The Ministry of Foreign...

A plot to assassinate Pope Francis during a trip to Iraq was stopped following a tip-off from British intelligence, according to his upcoming autobiography.The...

US president-elect, Donald Trump has said that people who were his enemies in his first term, now want to be his friend.In his first...

A driver who inhaled laughing gas at the wheel has been jailed for nine years and four months after he admitted killing his three...

Bitcoin has surged to a new record high, extending a rally that has seen the cryptocurrency's price rise by more than 50% since Donald...

Last year, India nudged past China to become the world's most populous country, according to UN estimates. With nearly 1.45 billion people now, you'd think...

An American Judge in the Eastern District of Tennessee at Knoxville, Thomas A. Varlan, has sentenced two Ghanaian nationals to prison for internet fraud...

High-profile Nigerian Pastor Tobi Adegboyega has dismissed claims that he was about to be deported from the UK, where his church is facing allegations...

The BBC has complained to Apple after the tech giant's new iPhone feature generated a false headline about a high-profile murder in the United...

Elon Musk is nearly $200 billion richer than Jeff Bezos, and personally worth more than Costco, after adding $63 billion to his fortune in...

Three more men have accused Sean "Diddy" Combs of rape and sexual assault in a batch of new lawsuits alleging the rapper drugged and...

Indian teenager Gukesh Dommaraju has become the youngest-ever world chess champion after beating defending champion China's Ding Liren in a dramatic turn on Thursday. Dommaraju,...

A British hedge fund trader has been sentenced to 12 years in prison in Denmark, after being found guilty of orchestrating a tax fraud...

US President Joe Biden has issued presidential pardons to 39 Americans convicted of non-violent crimes, and commuted the sentences of nearly 1,500 others, including...

US President Joe Biden has issued presidential pardons to 39 Americans convicted of non-violent crimes, and commuted the sentences of nearly 1,500 other people.The...

The richest person in the world just hit an even higher milestone. Elon Musk’s net worth has reached $400 billion, according to Bloomberg, making him...

Instagram and WhatsApp are now back online after a mass global outage affected several Meta-owned apps on Wednesday.Facebook has yet to confirm whether all...

Federal Bureau of Investigation Director Christopher Wray has said he will resign before President-elect Donald Trump, who has indicated he would fire him, takes...

A man who was captured on video attacking a judge in a Las Vegas courtroom has been sentenced to decades in prison.Deobra Redden was...

Brazil's President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is doing "well" after undergoing surgery for a brain bleed, his doctors say. The 79-year-old was taken to...

Nikki Giovanni, the award-winning US poet who emerged as one of the leading voices of the 1960s Black Arts movement, has died aged 81. Giovanni...

President-elect Donald Trump has said he will look at pardons for those involved in the 2021 US Capitol riot on his first day back...

Women training as midwives and nurses in Afghanistan have told the BBC they were ordered not to return to classes in the morning -...

Africa's development narrative is undergoing a transformation, driven by bold leaders who are challenging conventional approaches and advocating for inclusive, sustainable growth.Among these visionaries...

A US woman has pleaded guilty to drink-driving charges over an incident in which she killed a newlywed bride who was travelling in a...

An estimated 350,000 African artefacts and manuscripts, as well as human remains, photographs and natural history specimens, have been found in a university's collections.Dr...

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol’s cabinet has reversed a martial law order in the country, just hours after he issued the surprise decree that...

In a landmark achievement, Nigerian songstress Yemi Alade has earned her first-ever solo Grammy nomination in the Best African Music Performance category for her...

US President Joe Biden has issued an official pardon for his son Hunter, who was facing sentencing for two criminal cases.In a statement, the...

Britain's MPs have voted in favour of a bill that would legalise assisted dying in England and Wales.A majority of MPs supported a Bill...

Australia will ban children under 16 from using social media, after its parliament approved the world's strictest laws. The ban, which will not take effect...