International

Pope Francis on Wednesday compared having an abortion to hiring a "contract killer"."Interrupting a pregnancy is like eliminating someone," Francis said in an address...

The body of Bulgarian journalist Viktoria Marinova was found in a park on Saturday, making her the third journalist to have been murdered in...

Police in Mexico are investigating a couple arrested for transporting body parts in a pram in connection with at least 10 murders.At a hearing...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has officially proclaimed...

The Bois de Vincennes, a sprawling park on the outskirts of eastern Paris, is home to horse riding schools and a zoo. It has...

Three pupils have been killed after being struck by lightning in Uganda's north-western district of Yumbe.Ugandan Red Cross Society spokeswoman Irene Nakasiita confirmed that...

US First Lady Melania Trump has visited a...

A second British woman has died from "Brazilian butt lift" surgery, the BBC has learned, as fresh warnings come over the risks.The British Association...

A Texas woman, claiming that she was raped, beaten and sex trafficked at the age of 15 by a pimp who posed as a...

Following the revelation that American hip-hop star Kanye West will be ‘coming to Africa’ to complete the album he has been working on, several...

At least 42 people have died after drinking contaminated bootleg alcohol in Iran, a government spokesman said.Health ministry spokesman Iraj Harirchi said 16 people...

Ethiopian prosecutors have charged five suspects with terrorism over an attempt to kill Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed in a grenade attack at a rally...

Convicted paedophiles in Kazakhstan are facing chemical castration after the government provided funding for some 2000 injections.One man from the Turkestan region will receive the first injection...

Clarence House (the official residence of the Prince of Wales, Prince Charles) has announced that the Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall...

Police in the Netherlands have arrested seven men over an alleged plot to carry out what they describe as a major terrorist attack involving...

Bill Cosby spent his first night in prison alone, in a single cell near the infirmary, as he began his three-to-10-year sentence for sexual...

India's top court has ruled adultery is no longer a criminal offence.The Supreme Court overturned a 158-year-old law which said any man who had...

Separatists in Cameroon’s restive English speaking regions staged a prison break leading to the escape of about 70 prisoners, the BBC reported on Wednesday.The...

Pope Francis on Tuesday acknowledged that the cover-up of sexual abuse is driving people away from the Catholic Church — just hours before the...

Kenyan governor Okoth Obado has been charged in court with aiding and abetting the brutal murder of his ex-girlfriend, a pregnant student.The married governor...

A Florida man has been sentenced to 20 years in state prison for stealing $600 worth of cigarettes from a convenience store.Authorities say 48-year-old...

The US has imposed sanctions on the Chinese military over its purchasing of Russian military jets and surface-to-air missiles.It says such purchases contravene US...

China has hit back at President Donald Trump by imposing new trade tariffs on $60bn of American goods.It comes after the US slapped duties...

Kweku Adoboli, the former UBS trader convicted of fraud, has been given a temporary reprieve from deportation to Ghana, where he was born.Adoboli was...

Washington Post White House reporter Josh Dawsey tweeted a photo of the event invitation which highlighted the large costs. The money will go towards...

Mozambique's President Filipe Nyusi announced during a trip to Vatican City that the Pope planned on visiting the southern African country next year, to...

Two sisters have died in Somalia from complications that arose after undergoing female genital mutilation, according to Hawa Aden Mohamed, who campaigns against the...

Hurricane Florence, which is nearing the US East Coast, could kill "a lot of people", officials warn.The Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema) says storm...

More than 3,600 children in Germany were assaulted by Roman Catholic priests between 1946 and 2014, a leaked report has revealed.The study was commissioned...

The mortal remains of the late United Nations (UN) Secretary-General will be laid to rest today at the Military Cemetery in Accra.The three-day state...

Landlords in the West are offering free rent in return for sex, an investigation from BBC Inside Out West has found.The Ministry of Justice...

An Indian man who suspected his wife of cheating hacked off her head and carried it to the police station to confess to her...

Boris Johnson has attacked Theresa's May's Brexit plan, saying she had "wrapped a suicide vest" around the British constitution and "handed the detonator" to...

Some unexpected visitors have overstayed their welcome at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport: rats.KIRO 7 reported Thursday that over 120 active construction projects at the air...

A Chinese national identified as Liu Jiaqi has been deported by Kenyan authorities after a racially abusive video went viral on social media in...

In a historic verdict, India’s Supreme Court ruled that gay sex is no longer a criminal offence in the country.The ruling overturns a 2013...

US President Donald Trump plans to lead a meeting of the heads of state of the United Nations Security Council on Iran in late...

Efforts to salvage the North American Free Trade Agreement as a three-country pact are due to resume Wednesday when Canada and the US sit...

An explosion at a South African munitions depot in Somerset West, near Cape Town, has left at least eight people dead, but authorities are...

A court in Myanmar has sentenced two Reuters journalists to seven years in prison for violating a state secrets act while investigating violence against...