Mircea BarbuBBC News in BucharestPeter Turnley/Corbis/VCG via Getty ImagesIliescu at Romania's presidential palace in 1993, during his first of three terms in officeIon Iliescu, a figure whose name is...

Camilla Veras MotaBBC News BrasilReporting fromMaceió, Alagoas state BBCRute Freires lives with her daughter Tamara, who has congenital Zika syndromeWhen Rute Freires was told by a doctor that her...

Yolande KnellBBC News, JerusalemReutersNetanyahu's plan reportedly faces opposition from military chiefsIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is to propose fully reoccupying the Gaza Strip when he meets his security cabinet,...

Ben Hatton and Kayla EpsteinBBC NewsGetty ImagesBill and Hillary Clinton appear onstage together at an event.Former US President Bill Clinton and his wife Hillary are among high-profile figures to...

An Indigenous group has launched legal action to stop a 63,000-seat stadium for the 2032 Brisbane Olympics being built on culturally significant land. The Queensland government announced in March...

Dozens of people are feared trapped after a massive cloudburst triggered flash floods in the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand.Rescue teams, including army personnel, are on their way to...

Members of Nigeria's national female basketball team are to receive a cash reward of $100,000 (£75,000) each following their victory at the Fiba Women's AfroBasket Championship over the weekend...

Kelly NgBBC News, SingaporeGetty ImagesGuangdong authorities have vowed to take "decisive and forceful measures" to stop the spread of the diseaseMore than 7,000 cases of a mosquito-borne virus have...

A zoo in Denmark has appealed to the public to donate their healthy unwanted pets as part of a unique effort to provide food for its predators.Aalborg Zoo has...

Nine people, including an Irish missionary and a three-year-old child, were kidnapped from an orphanage near Haiti's capital, Port-au-Prince on Sunday, an official has said.Gena Heraty, the facility's director,...

'It's a new kind of cruelty', says Gaza hostage's brotherThe brother of an Israeli hostage held in the Gaza Strip has told the BBC that a Hamas video showing...

US Attorney General Pam Bondi has ordered prosecutors to open legal proceedings into allegations of a so-called Russiagate conspiracy that Donald Trump has long claimed was concocted by political...