Kenya's Beatrice Chebet wins gold in the women's 5000m with team-mate Faith Kipyegon claiming silver and Italy's Nadia Battocletti takes bronze at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo.FOLLOW LIVE:...

Manjit KaurHarjit Kaur's age and sudden arrest have generated an outpouring of sympathy and supportThe visiting room of the Mesa Verde ICE Processing Centre in Bakersfield, California, is small,...

Portugal says it will recognise a Palestinian state on Sunday, making it the latest Western nation preparing to shift policy as the war in the Gaza Strip shows no...

President Donald Trump has said US forces carried out a "lethal kinetic strike" on a vessel which he said was trafficking drugs, and the attack killed three "male narcoterrorists"...

Yolande KnellMiddle East correspondentBBCSylvia al-Shurafi says "even an animal" could not survive in the so-called humanitarian zoneAs Israel continues its operation to fully occupy Gaza City, displaced Palestinians in...

US Senator Ted Cruz has accused the head of America's broadcast regulator of acting like "a mafioso" in the suspension of late-night host Jimmy Kimmel - the sharpest attack...

An Australian doctor who raised the alarm about Erin Patterson has been sanctioned by the medical regulator over disparaging comments made about the triple murderer.Chris Webster was a key...

Caroline Hawleydiplomatic correspondent andAleks PhillipsWatch: Hugs on tarmac as family reunite after Afghan ordealA British couple freed by the Taliban after being detained for nearly eight months have emotionally...

A South African hospital cleaner has been arrested after being found in possession of a bag of human placentas in eastern Mpumalanga province, police say. Rose Mnisi was allegedly...

The Taliban government has removed books written by women from the university teaching system in Afghanistan as part of a new ban which has also outlawed the teaching of...

Dominic Cascianihome and legal correspondent andWill Vernonin ParisVideo shows a group of migrants boarding a boat near Gravelines in FranceAn Eritrean man has been flown out of the UK...

A fire whirlwind or 'firenado' has torn through a sugarcane field in the Brazilian state of São Paulo. Firefighting teams worked to extinguish the flames earlier this month and...