Verified videos emerging from Iran show bodies piled up in a hospital, snipers stationed on buildings and CCTV cameras being destroyed, following the unprecedented crackdown on protests earlier this...

Kayla EpsteinNew York CityWatch: Damaged homes and snowy roadways as winter storm hits USSeveral people have died in a winter storm that hit a wide swath of the US,...

Australian authorities have issued heatwave warnings for most of the country as millions celebrate Australia Day.Temperatures are expected to peak on Tuesday, reaching the "high forties" Celsius in the...

Kelly NgandShaimaa Khalil,Tokyo correspondentEPATwin cubs Xiao Xiao and Lei Lei will return to China on TuesdayThousands of people flocked to a zoo in Japan on Sunday to say farewell...

Alfred Lasteck,BBC AfricaandLucy FlemingAFP/Getty ImagesRigathi Gachagu is a wealthy businessman popular in his home region of Mount KenyaProminent Kenyan opposition figure Rigathi Gachagua has alleged there was an attempt...

Polls in Myanmar have closed after a third and final stage of voting in what are widely viewed as sham elections.Many popular parties are banned from standing and voting...

ReutersThe Grinch was intercepted by the French navy on ThursdayFrench officials have taken the Indian captain of a suspected Russian shadow fleet tanker into custody days after the oil...

A leading Venezuelan human rights group says at least 80 political prisoners have been released under pressure from the US.Alfredo Romero, head of Foro Penal, said his group was...

Nawal Al-MaghafiSenior international investigations correspondent, YemenLiam weir / BBCOne of the sites had several shipping containers with little ventilation, where detainees said up to 60 men were heldThe BBC...

Bystander video footage has captured the moments before the killing of 37-year-old Minneapolis man Alex Pretti by federal immigration officers.The killing comes less than three weeks after Renee Good...

Yasmin MalikandSrosh Khan,BBC NewsbeatBBC/Sarah Louise BennettSinger Troye Sivan hit out at a cosmetic doctor who gave him "unsolicited medical advice" on InstagramA cosmetic surgeon who faced a backlash over...

Bystander footage has captured the moments before the killing of 37-year-old Minneapolis man Alex Pretti by federal immigration officers.Federal and state officials have conflicting accounts of the events which...