International

During the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge’s five-day tour of Poland and Germany in July, Prince George and Princess Charlotte stole the show with...

A mass burial for about 300 people killed by a mudslide and flooding has taken place on the outskirts of the capital Freetown. President Ernest...

A 10-year-old rape victim who was denied permission for an abortion by the Indian Supreme Court last month has given birth to a baby...

Spain’s coastguard says it has rescued 600 migrants crossing from Morocco in a 24-hour period amid a spike in the number of migrant arrivals. The...

Could this eventually be an end to the incessant begging that has flooded the entire streets of Rwanda. The Rwanda National Police has warned that...

China urged the US and North Korea to urgently "put the brakes" on provocative actions and words on Tuesday after North Korean leader Kim...

President Jacob Zuma at the weekend spoke publicly of attempts on his life, saying he was poisoned and almost died because of his stance...

A car has crashed into a pizzeria in a village east of the French capital Paris, killing a girl and injuring 12 other people,...

The world’s richest man, Bill Gates has joined Instagram while on a philanthropic visit to Tanzania. His handle on the photo-sharing site @thisisbillgates already has...

Seventeen people have been killed and eight wounded in a "terrorist attack" in the centre of the capital of Burkina Faso, Ouagadougou, the government...

Last Monday, a shoplifter in Toronto was caught stealing an outfit for a job interview. But when Constable Niran Jeyanesan arrived to arrest him,...

The most genetically modified animals in existence have been created to help end a shortage of organs for transplant, say US researchers. The scientists successfully...

China's new military and logistical base in Djibouti has put other foreign powers on edge, but observers believe China's strategy in the region is...

A New Jersey woman has been arrested and charged with fatally shooting her lesbian wife in the face at their home on Sunday. According to the New...

Nine people have been killed, including six tourists, and 164 injured in an earthquake that struck a remote and mountainous part of southwest China's...

Girls in an isolated Caribbean village become male and grow penises when they hit puberty due to a rare genetic disorder. It is estimated that...

More than 220,000 people have signed a petition against French President Emmanuel Macron's plans to create a formal First Lady role for his wife...

A 10-year-old girl who is pregnant and has been refused an abortion is at the centre of a media storm in India. The BBC's...

A man murdered his wife before killing himself at their home with their three children inside, police say. The woman, 26, was "violently attacked" before...

Becoming a pilot is far from easy, but challenging gender stereotypes and becoming a female aviator is even harder.This didn't stop Indian pilot Anny...

A woman was shot in the vagina and left with “life changing injuries” in a sex game gone wrong, a court has heard. The 46-year-old...

It's not what most people expect to see when they're swiping through their selfies. At the Wilderness Festival near his Oxfordshire home this weekend, David...

UK tobacco firm British American Tobacco (BAT) says it is under official investigation by the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) over allegations it paid bribes...

Relatives of Venezuelan opposition leaders Leopoldo López and Antonio Ledezma say the two men have been re-arrested. They were under house arrest after accusations of...

Cardiologist Martin Cowie spends much of his life on a plane. With 150 trips a year, including jaunts to Asia every few weeks, numerous visits...

More than 40 men have been arrested in Nigeria over the weekend for performing homosexual acts, police say. They are due to appear in court...

A Malawian court has granted the police a warrant of arrest in respect of the country’s former president, Joyce Banda. According to a police statement...

“I LITERALLY went home every night for the first three months and said, “Oh, my God, what have I gotten myself into?’,” Boston’s mayor,...

Most people commute by bus, train or car – but Benjamin David gets to work by plunging into Munich’s Isar River. Benjamin David was fed...

The first case of a man killed by penis enlargement surgery has been reported in Sweden. A healthy 30-year-old had wanted to increase both the...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has announced that 755 staff must leave US diplomatic missions, in retaliation for new US sanctions against Moscow. The decision to...

A picture of the Kyrgyz president's youngest daughter feeding her baby dressed in her underwear has sparked a debate about breastfeeding and sexualisation. Aliya Shagieva...

Amid the fall-out from US President Donald Trump's announcement on Twitter that transgender people will not be able to serve in the US military,...

Police in China have detained 18 suspected members of a banned religious cult, state news agency Xinhua said. The group is notorious for some of...

Peace Delaly Nicoue, the youngest person to sit the Baccalaureate exam in Benin this year, has passed with top grades. The shy 11-year-old told BBC...

The White House has not yet decided how it will implement the president's ban on transgender people serving in the US military. Mr Trump's surprise...

North Korea threatened a nuclear strike on "the heart of the US" if it attempts to remove Kim Jong Un as Supreme Leader, Pyongyang's...

Khorsheeda Khatun had been left with nothing -- then that too was washed away The 28-year-old fled her home country of Myanmar in January with...

US President Donald Trump has issued a challenge to Republican senators to rally behind their healthcare bill, on the eve of a crucial vote. "Now...

Two Canadian religious leaders have been found guilty of practicing polygamy by the Supreme Court of British Columbia (BC). The trial heard Winston Blackmore, 61,...