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Forceful floodwaters in Cebu province, Philippines, picked up and rolled shipping containers on 4 November. At least...
EPA/Shutterstock It’s Election Day in the US. This so-called “off year” election doesn’t feature presidential or congressional...
New York City is electing its next mayor on Tuesday in a closely-watched race with national implications....
US President Donald Trump’s administration has said it will provide reduced food aid to more than 42...
A train collided with a lorry transporting a full load of vehicles in Shertz, Texas. No injuries...
A medieval tower located in the centre of Rome partially collapsed on Monday, trapping one man and...
The military commander who has ruled Guinea since a coup four years ago has entered the presidential...
Watch: ‘Hard’ to send money to New York City if Mamdani wins mayoral race, Trump says US...
More than 40 people are now known to have died after multiple landslides struck Kenya and Uganda’s...
Sarah Rainsford,Southern Europe correspondent, Rome and Jake Lapham Watch: Moment part of medieval tower collapses in Rome...
Getty Images A search and rescue operation is continuing for the rest of the group, which includes...
Drones have been seen flying over a Belgian military base near the Dutch border for a third...
Getty Images The Maldives has banned young people born on or after 1 January 2007 from smoking...
IDF Major General Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi resigned on Friday, admitting her role in leaking the video The former...
The president of Spain’s Valencia region, Carlos Mazón, has resigned after months of pressure over his handling...
Popular Malaysian rapper Namewee has been charged with illegal drug use and possession, local media reported on...
The US is not planning to conduct nuclear explosions, Energy Secretary Chris Wright has said, calming global...
George Clooney has said it was a “mistake” for Kamala Harris to replace Joe Biden as the...
Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan is being sworn in shortly for a second term following an election...
Damian GrammaticasPolitical correspondent Laura Murphy Professor Laura Murphy says her academic freedom was traded for access to...
Video shared by the National Police of Peru shows the moment officers found suspected cocaine in a...
Navtej Johal,BBC News Midlands correspondent, Katie Thompson and Sophie Woodcock Viswashkumar Ramesh breaks down in tears as...
Donald Trump has played down the possibility of a US war with Venezuela, but suggested Nicolás Maduro’s...
Megha MohanBBC World Service gender and identity correspondent Grit A gruesome killing in her own family inspired...
An earthquake has struck northern Afghanistan near Mazar-e Sharif, one of the country’s largest cities around 20:30...
The Netherlands has said it will return a stolen 3,500-year-old sculpture to Egypt. It is “highly likely”...
The BBC’s Will Grant witnessed the devastation in the town of Black River, as he joined an...
Nato “will stand with Ukraine up to the day in which we will have them sitting around...
Hamas has handed over three coffins it says contain the bodies of deceased Gaza hostages, according to...
US airports have been hit with widespread delays because of a shortage of air traffic controllers, who...
An avalanche in Italy’s Dolomite mountains has killed five German climbers, including a 17-year-old girl and her...
Brandon Drenonin Westmoreland, Jamaica Brandon Drenon / BBC News A town just outside of Whitehouse in Westmoreland...
Reuters Last month’s jewellery heist at the Louvre museum was carried out by petty criminals rather than...
Three men have been killed in a US strike on an alleged drug-smuggling boat in the Caribbean,...
The number of people killed in Jamaica as a result of Hurricane Melissa has risen to 28,...
US President Donald Trump has ordered the preparation of plans for military action in Nigeria to tackle...
Rayhan Demytriein Georgia, South Caucasus Rustavi 2 Bella Culley, pictured at a previous hearing at Tbilisi City...
A fire that broke out at discount shop in Mexico has killed at least 23 people and...
US President Donald Trump has unveiled renovations to the bathroom in the Lincoln Bedroom, as his remodelling...
Nada TawfikNew York correspondent Reuters Mamdani poses for selfie with young New Yorker As Zohran Mamdani walked...
Immigration raids have been taking place across the US since President Donald Trump entered office – as...
The Los Angeles Dodgers became the first team for 25 years to win back-to-back World Series titles,...
Azadeh MoshiriPakistan Correspondent BBC Floods have swept across Pakistan, hitting urban and rural areas, including the capital...
Getty Images In 2024, Xinjiang welcomed some 300 million visitors, more than double the number in 2018...
Sofya VolyanovaBBC News Russian Maria 22-year-old Maria suffered serious side effects after trying the unlicensed weight loss...
France’s consumer watchdog has reported the Asian fast fashion giant Shein to authorities for selling “sex dolls...
Guy DelauneyBBC Balkans correspondent, Novi Sad Watch: Video shows aftermath of railway station roof collapse in Serbia...
The Kenyan government has confirmed that 21 people have died following a landslide in the western part...
Cachella Smith and Will Grant,Reporting from Kingston EPA/Shutterstock Black River was one of the worst hit areas...
© RMN – Grand Palais (Musée du Louvre) Mathieu Rabeau Precious crown jewels including the Parure Marie-Amélie...
James LandaleDiplomatic correspondent, in Kyiv Reuters Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said the defence of Pokrovsk is...
Celebrities donned weird and wonderful outfits for Heidi Klum’s annual Halloween party in New York. The supermodel...
Shares worth €1.3bn (£1.1bn; $1.5bn) have been seized from the company that controls the manufacturer of Campari...
President Samia Suluhu Hassan has been declared the winner of Tanzania’s presidential election, securing another term in...
Bushra Mohamed and Akisa Wandera,BBC Africa AFP via Getty Images People are arriving in Tawila after having...
Cherylann MollanBBC News, Mumbai Getty Images India’s passport ranks 85th out of 199 countries on the Henley...
Yolande Knell,Middle East correspondent, Jerusalem and Wael Hussein,Cairo Getty Images The new museum will show all of...
Andrew HardingParis correspondent, Paris AFP via Getty Images Georgi Filipov was one of the three Bulgarian men...
Brandon Drenonin Black River, Jamaica Watch: BBC reports from “ground zero” of Hurricane Melissa’s destruction People walk...
The owner of a Turkish hotel and 10 others have been sentenced to life in prison following...
Six suspects have been arrested near the French city of Lyon in connection with the country’s latest...
“It’s not something you expect,” says Franz Zehetner, who opened a parcel addressed to Vienna’s St Stephen’s...
The South African government has criticised the US’s decision to prioritise refugee applications from white Afrikaners, saying...
More than 60,000 people have fled the Sudanese city of el-Fasher, which was captured by the paramilitary...
The BBC’s Nada Tawfik reports from Black River, Jamaica, where the strongest storm to hit the country...
A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from halting food aid used by more than 40...
Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney accepted an invitation to visit China extended by President Xi Jinping, signalling...
Homes and power lines have been destroyed in the Jamaican tourism hub of Falmouth, which the BBC...
India and the US have signed a framework agreement to expand defence cooperation over the next 10-years....
Rachel Hagan and Imogen Foulkes,Geneva Correspondent EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock The UN’s human rights chief has condemned US military strikes...
CCTV footage shows the dramatic moment a train crashed into a truck at a level crossing in...
Paul KirbyEurope digital editor Pierre Crom/Getty Images Rob Jetten, 38, is now tipped to become the youngest...
Protesters have taken to the streets in Tanzania for a third day, defying warnings from the country’s...
Latvian MPs have voted to withdraw from an international accord aimed at protecting women from violence, including...
A South African court has ruled that Nobel laureate Albert Luthuli’s 1967 death was the result of...
At least 19 people have died in Jamaica as a result of Hurricane Melissa, Information Minister Dana...
On Wednesday, over tea and cakes with veterans of the Ukraine war, President Vladimir Putin announced Russia...
US space agency Nasa has rejected reality star Kim Kardashian’s claim that the 1969 space mission to...
Jamaica’s prime minister Andrew Holness has described the town of Black River as the country’s “ground zero”...
Watch: Moment Spain’s Sagrada Familia crowned world’s tallest church The Sagrada FamÃlia has become the tallest church...
Steve RosenbergRussia Editor in St Petersburg BBC Tens of thousands of Stalin’s victims are buried in this...
Midhat Ullah Hasani Chingakham Radha has moved to a temporary shelter but longs to return home Thousands...
BBC Shirley Chung, right, and an adoptee from Iran who requested anonymity Shirley Chung was just a...
Five people have been charged in connection with the 2023 overdose death of Robert De Niro’s grandson...
Hundreds of thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jewish Israelis are taking part in a protest in Jerusalem against changes...
Barbara Plett UsherAfrica correspondent BBC Ezzeldin Hassan Musa was beaten with sticks before he managed to flee...
Anthony ZurcherNorth America correspondent, travelling with the president Getty Images The main event of Trump’s trip came...
President Donald Trump has announced the US will start testing nuclear weapons in what could be a...
Vanessa Buschschlüter and Rute Pina,BBC Brasil, reporting from São Paulo Bruno Itan Dozens of bodies were laid...
The commander in chief of Ukraine’s armed forces has warned Russian activity is increasing around the key...
The Trump administration will limit the number of refugees admitted to the US to 7,500, and give...
Getty Images The US government shutdown has entered its fifth week and there is no clear end...
Israel has received via the Red Cross in Gaza two coffins which the Palestinian armed group Hamas...
Peter Mwai, Merlyn Thomas and Matt MurphyBBC Verify BBC Warning: This story contains graphic descriptions of executions....
Supplied Suzanne Rees was found dead hours after her cruise boat left Lizard Island The daughter of...
Laura BickerChina correspondent Watch: US and China’s different reports of their trade meeting Donald Trump came away...
The leader of Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has declared an investigation into what he called...
Nick Davis,Mandeville, Jamaica and Rachel Hagan Getty Images In Jamaica, the impact was most severe in the...
Nikita YadavBBC News, Delhi NurPhoto via Getty Images India has faced increasingly intense heatwaves in recent years...
