Mohamed Mohamed OsmanBBC World Service, El-Obeid, SudanBBCTwins Makarem (left) and Ikram were in separate classrooms when the shelling beganIt had been a normal day for 18-year-old twins Makarem and...

Getty ImagesAlex Honnold was the first climber to perform a rope-free ascent of El Capitan in Yosemite National ParkAn American climber has postponed scaling the Taipei 101, one of...

Dearbail JordanandPatrick JacksonWatch: Firefighters battle blazes in Kyiv and Kharkiv after Russian strikesThe first three-way peace talks between Russia, Ukraine and the US have ended in Abu Dhabi with...

ReutersCIA director John Ratcliffe met Venezuela's Interim President Delcy Rodríguez in Caracas on Thursday "at President Trump's direction," a US official has said. The two-hour meeting was aimed at...

German police have arrested a Lebanese national on suspicion of being a member of Hamas and planning attacks in Europe.The man, named as "Mohammad S", was stopped at Berlin's...

ReutersFederal agents and community members faced off after the shootingA US border patrol officer has shot and killed a man in Minneapolis. Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old nurse, is the...

Getty ImagesThere are manifold reasons why recorded shark encounters are rising in Australia's oceans - but fatalities are relatively rareIt's "extraordinary", says shark researcher Chris Pepin-Neff: four shark bites...

Adrienne MurrayCopenhagenReutersFrederiksen (left) said there was now a "diplomatic, political track" to pursue after a difficult weekDanish PM Mette Frederiksen is visiting Greenland's capital Nuuk for talks with the...

The president of Somaliland has held separate talks with his Israeli counterpart and the second son of the US leader, as the breakaway region continues to seek international recognition...

Hindustan Times via Getty ImagesEuropean Commission President Ursula von der Leyen (left) with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi earlier this year. India and the EU have been negotiating a...

Sarah RainsfordEastern Europe correspondent , KyivReutersThis was the first time the three delegations have met in the same room together.Negotiators from Russia, Ukraine and the US have been meeting...

Mexican authorities have sent 37 inmates allegedly linked to powerful drug cartels to face trials in the US, after Trump floated the possibility of US land strikes targeting organised...