Japan has executed a man who murdered nine people in 2017, the first time since 2022 that the country has enacted capital punishment.The serial killings by Takahiro Shiraishi, dubbed...

Rayhan DemytrieBBC South Caucasus correspondentGetty ImagesArmenia's Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan faces pivotal elections next yearA bitter standoff between Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and the Armenian Apostolic Church has seen...

Venezuela's former head of military intelligence, Hugo Carvajal - also known as "El Pollo", or The Chicken - has pleaded guilty to drug trafficking and narco-terrorism charges in the...

Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth took the lectern at the Pentagon briefing room on Thursday morning with two goals. He wanted to present evidence of the success of the American...

Jacqueline Howard & Adam DurbinBBC NewsWatch: Iran dealt "heavy blow" to US, says KhameneiIran's supreme leader has insisted the US "gained no achievements" from strikes on its nuclear facilities,...

A journalist has won her case against Australia's national broadcaster, with a court ruling she was unfairly sacked over a social media post about the war in Gaza.Antoinette Lattouf...

Denis Villeneuve, the Oscar-nominated French-Canadian filmmaker, will direct the next James Bond film, Amazon MGM Studios has announced.The Dune director said in a statement released by the studio that...

At least eight people have been killed and 400 injured as thousands took to the streets in a day of protests across Kenya against President William Ruto's government. Police...

Sippy FilmsSholay featured an all-star cast led by Amitabh Bachchan (right) and Dharmendra (left)Fifty years after it first exploded on Indian screens, Sholay (Embers) - arguably the most iconic...

Eurostar services have resumed but some delays are expected until the end of Wednesday following two days of major disruption.Wednesday saw knock-on disruption after two people died in separate...

A court in Costa Rica has ordered the release of 200 migrants deported from the US. Rights groups say the group - from countries including Afghanistan, China, Ghana, India...

The BBC's Lyse Doucet reports from Iran's capital city, Tehran during what appears to be an enduring ceasefire with Israel. The pause follows a volatile 24 hours in the...