International

Indian authorities have banned two highly addictive opioids in response to a BBC investigation which found they were fuelling a public health crisis in...

Pope Francis is resting, but remains "critical" with respiratory and kidney problems, more than a week after being admitted to hospital, the Vatican has...

New Zealand’s commerce minister Andrew Bayly has resigned as a government minister after he “placed a hand” on a staff member’s upper arm last...

An aid worker has died from gunshot wounds in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, where Rwanda-backed rebels who captured two key cities in recent...

For Brian Kreher, a fourth-generation farmer in the small town of Clarence, New York, the latest outbreak of bird flu has meant many sleepless...

A notorious gang leader has died after he was shot inside a courthouse in Sri Lanka by a gunman disguised as a lawyer, say...

Former President Nana Akufo-Addo has called on Nigeria to take a leading role in driving Africa’s economic integration, emphasizing the need for bold leadership...

Delta Air Lines is offering $30,000 (£23,792) to each person on board a plane that crash-landed in Toronto on Monday - all of whom...

An Indian pharmaceutical company is manufacturing unlicensed, highly addictive opioids and exporting them illegally to West Africa where they are driving a major public...

A 14-year-old Brazilian boy who injected himself with a mixture of dead butterfly remains and water reportedly suffered in agony for a week before...

Nigeria may face a tanker shortage as the Federal Government moves to ban 60,000- and 45,000-litre capacity petroleum trucks. The Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum...

A couple in north-east Pakistan has been detained on suspicion of murdering a 13-year-old girl who worked for them as a maid, for allegedly...

Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, has announced a new identity for her lifestyle brand, which will be called As Ever.Despite the social media teasers...

More than 30 people have been killed in a bus crash on a mountain road in Bolivia, police say.The driver likely lost control of...

A United Nations (UN) judge deceived a young woman into coming to the UK to work as her slave while she studied at the...

Three people are critically injured after a Delta Airlines plane flipped over on landing in Toronto on Monday.All 80 people on board the Delta...

Muhsin Hendricks, a pioneering figure dubbed the world's first openly gay imam, has been shot dead in South Africa.The 57-year-old cleric ran a mosque...

More than 40 people, mostly women, were killed after an illegal gold mine collapsed in Mali on Saturday.The collapse took place near Kéniéba, in...

Life for Mike Elvis Tusubira, a motorcycle taxi rider with HIV in Uganda, has been turned upside down since US President Donald Trump halted...

TikTok is again available on the US app stores of Apple and Google after President Donald Trump postponed enforcement of a ban on the...

Programmes to tackle HIV, polio, mpox and bird flu have been affected by the freeze on tens of billions of dollars of overseas aid...

A single phone call will not magically end the war in Ukraine.Talks may now get underway. Exactly when and how they will conclude isn't...

A cellphone exploded in a woman's pocket inside a busy supermarket in a terrifying scene that was caught on video. Security camera footage showed the...

The US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has been told to stop minting one-cent coins, or pennies as they are widely called, by US President...

A 23-year-old woman has died after suffering a heart attack while dancing at her sister's wedding in Madhya Pradesh's Vidisha, officials said on Sunday.The...

China's tit-for-tat import taxes on some American goods came into effect on Monday, as the trade war between the world's two biggest economies escalates...

US President Donald Trump has accused South Africa of human rights violations against white farmers, continuing a dispute that escalated this week as the...

A federal judge has blocked Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (Doge) from accessing the personal financial data of millions of Americans in Treasury...

US President Donald Trump has said he is revoking Joe Biden's security clearance and access to daily intelligence briefings after his predecessor did the...

When Donald Trump's fortunes took a downturn in the 90s and he needed to raise cash fast, he sailed his 282ft (85m) superyacht, the...

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order sanctioning the International Criminal Court (ICC), accusing it of "illegitimate and baseless actions targeting America and...

A U.S. Army Major, Kojo Owusu Dartey, has been sentenced to 70 months in prison and three years of supervised release for his involvement...

Thousands of employees at the US Agency for International Development (USAID) will be placed on leave from Friday night, the agency says.A USAID statement...

The Zayed Award for Human Fraternity today announced its 2025 honorees: Prime Minister of Barbados and climate change champion The Honorable Mia Amor Mottley,...

Professor Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang, the Vice President of Ghana, has emphasized the need for stronger agricultural collaboration between Ghana and Australia to address food...

President Donald Trump will sign an executive order on Wednesday designed to prevent people who were biologically assigned male at birth from participating in...

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has arrested Joseph Osei Boateng, a Ghanaian national convicted of sex crimes involving a minor, in Columbus, Ohio.ICE...

Nearly 700,000 women are set to participate in an NHS artificial intelligence (AI) breast cancer screening trial in England.Five different AI platforms will be...

Elon Musk has declared that the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) should “die” amid reports that two top security officials at the...

Former New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez has been sentenced to 11 years in prison, following his conviction on bribery and corruption charges. Last July, a...