Collins NabiswaBBC Monitoring,Abdou Aziz DiédhiouBBC Afrique,Natasha Booty andChris EwokorBBC AfricaGetty ImagesUntil recently Islamists in Mali had been more active in the north and centreMali's military government has sought to...

American tennis star Taylor Townsend has apologised after coming under fire for comments she made on social media about Chinese food.The 29-year-old who is in the Chinese city of...

Romanian far-right former presidential candidate Calin Georgescu has been charged with attempting to stage a coup after the first round of the presidential election was annulled last December.Horatiu Potra,...

The United States has officially named Colombia as a country which has "demonstrably failed" to uphold its obligations to control drug trafficking, but stopped short of cutting off the...

EPASheep walk among the dried-out bed of the Orontes River in Jisr al-Shughour, northern SyriaThe wheat fields outside Seqalbia, near the Syrian city of Hama, should be golden and...

Celebrated children's writer Robert Munsch has been approved for medically assisted dying in Canada.Munsch, whose 85 published books include The Paper Bag Princess and Love You Forever, was diagnosed...

Tiffanie Turnbull and Ottilie MitchellBBC News, SydneyGetty ImagesA huge search is under way in Australia for a heavily armed fugitive who allegedly shot two police officersEven in Australia, Porepunkah...

A judge in New York state has dismissed two terrorism charges against Luigi Mangione, the alleged killer of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.Judge Gregory Carro also ruled a charge of...

A Kenyan High Court has issued an arrest warrant for a British national suspected of murdering a 21-year-old woman more than a decade ago.Agnes Wanjiru was killed in March...

Two teenagers who peed into a pot of broth at a hotpot restaurant have been ordered to pay 2.2m yuan ($309,000; £227,000) to two catering companies in China.The incident,...

Belarusian and Russian forces are taking part in joint manoeuvres some 45 miles (72km) from Minsk as part of the Zapad 2025 (West 2025) military drills. The countries say...

President Donald Trump says the US military has destroyed an alleged Venezuelan drug vessel travelling in international waters on the way to the US.Trump said on Monday that three...