The first vote of the conclave - the secretive process to choose a new pope - has failed to reach a decision. After a lengthy wait, black smoke emerged...

Laura GozziBBC NewsReporting fromVatican CityVATICAN MEDIA / HANDOUTVoting desks for 133 cardinals have been set up inside the Sistine Chapel ahead of the conclave.On Wednesday evening, under the domed...

Russia says Ukraine has launched an overnight drone attack targeting Moscow for the second night in a row.All four of the capital's major airports have been closed temporarily to...

The nationalist candidate George Simion has won a resounding victory in the first round of the presidential election in Romania. Simion came first with 40% of the vote, and...

Maddy SavageReporting fromUppsala, SwedenGetty ImagesPolice forensic officers at the scene of the shooting this weekAhead of Sweden's Walpurgis festival to mark the start of spring, young people were busy...

Will VernonReporting fromWroclaw, PolandBBCOrdinary Poles have been signing up for military training days anticipating a military attack At a military training ground near the city of Wroclaw, ordinary Poles...

Aoife Walsh & Greg MckenzieBBC NewsAlan CarterThe husband of a British-South African woman found dead at her house in France has said he cannot imagine "the terror and the...

Aleem Maqbool, Paul Kirby & Rebecca SealesBBC NewsGetty ImagesPope candidates (left to right) Cardinal Peter Kodwo Appiah Turkson, cardinal Pietro Parolin, cardinal Luis Antonio Gokim Tagle, and cardinal Fridolin Ambongo...

André Rhoden-PaulBBC NewsEPAPeople use candles in the streets of the city Ourense in north-western SpainThe power is out and nothing is working. How am I supposed to get through...

Mallory Moench & Gabriela PomeroyBBC NewsEPACustomers wait at Lisbon's airportThe first sign of trouble Peter Hughes noticed was when his train to Madrid started to slow down.Then the TV...

Greenland's new prime minister has said the island is not a "piece of property that can be bought", in response to Donald Trump's repeated calls for the US to...

Duncan KennedyBBC News at Bergen BelsenAFPTens of thousands of people, most of them Jews, died at Belsen in northern GermanyThere had been rumours. There had been aerial photographs. There...