There are "no plans" for US President Donald Trump to meet Russia's Vladimir Putin "in the immediate future", a White House official has stated.Last Thursday Trump said he and...

Passengers were forced to jump from carriages in a train crash that killed 15 people in eastern Ethiopia, a local official has told the BBC.The train derailed on Monday...

Shaimaa KhalilJapan correspondentReutersSanae Takaichi has made it to the top in a male-dominated countryFor many young girls in Japan today, the image of Sanae Takaichi taking the helm of...

Paul KirbyEurope digital editor andHugh Schofieldin ParisWatch: Sarkozy was cheered by supporters as he embraced his wife Carla Bruni-Sarkozy outside their Paris homeNicolas Sarkozy has become the first French...

Mexico, Costa Rica and Jamaica have joined the United States' bid to stage the Women's World Cup in 2031 and are set to host matches at the expanded 48-team...

A 55-year-old Palestinian woman has been taken to hospital after being clubbed over the head by a masked Jewish settler as she was picking olives.The unprovoked attack, which took...

Amazon Web Services (AWS) had a bad day.That's how the boss of another big US tech firm Cloudflare put it – probably feeling very relieved that Monday's outage, hitting...

Rebecca MorelleScience Editor andAlison FrancisSenior Science JournalistTony Jolliffe/BBC NewsCate Blanchett has teamed up with Kew's Millennium Seed BankShe's a Hollywood A-lister, with a mantelpiece groaning under the weight of...

BBC / Regan MorrisA statue of Matthew Fontaine Maury, a Confederate officer, on display A massive monument of General Robert E Lee that once sparked riots in the Virginia...

ReutersProtesters had gathered from as early as 07:00 before being dispersedThe Nigerian police have fired tear gas to disperse protesters who had gathered in the capital, Abuja, over the...

Australia has accused a Chinese military aircraft of releasing flares "in close proximity" to its patrol jet over the South China Sea.The Australian government has raised its concern with...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said he would be ready to join Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin at a proposed summit in Hungary if he were invited.The US and...