Anbarasan EthirajanGlobal affairs correspondentGetty ImagesSheikh Hasina is facing the death penalty over a deadly crackdown on student-led protests last year that ousted her from powerBangladesh's former prime minister Sheikh...

Toby Luckhurst,In Kyiv and Ottilie MitchellWatch: Kyiv air defences downing Russian drones and missiles during attackAt least four people were killed when a Russian drone penetrated an apartment block...

Luiz Fernando Toledo and Carol Castro,BBC News Brazil, Rio de JaneiroMAURO PIMENTEL/AFP via Getty ImagesPolice arrested scores of suspected gang members but the gang's leader remains at largeNew details...

Israel has identified the hostage body returned by Hamas on Thursday as that of Meny Godard, who was 73 when he was killed in the 7 October attacks. Red...

Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt has granted clemency to a death row prisoner, commuting his sentence to life in prison without the possibility of parole.The clemency notice came just before...

A mother-and-daughter duo - one claiming to be a fortune teller and a feng shui master - have been charged over allegedly scamming almost A$70m ($46m; £35m) from "vulnerable"...

Natasha Booty, Tom Bateman,State department correspondent, At the G7 ministers meeting and Barbara Plett Usher,Africa correspondentReutersThe UAE is accused of supplying the RSF with weapons, which both parties denyUS...

South Sudan's leader Salva Kiir has in a shock move dismissed one of his vice-presidents, Benjamin Bol Mel, who had been tipped as his possible successor.Kiir stripped Bol Mel...

Three days after a car exploded near the Red Fort in the Indian capital, Delhi, killing eight people, investigators have told the BBC they are checking if it has...

Paris attacks: What happened 10 years ago?Just as France marks the 10th anniversary of the Bataclan massacres, another reminder has come of the permanence of the jihadist threat.A former...

ReutersAt least 37 people were killed and dozens injured in Peru when a bus plunged into a 200m (650ft) deep ravine after a head-on collision.The incident happened in the...

David Gritten and Sebastian Usher,JerusalemReutersDonald Trump has repeatedly asked for a pardon for his close ally Benjamin NetanyahuIsrael's President Isaac Herzog has received a letter from US President Donald...