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...

Katy WatsonBBC News, Sydney Harbour BridgeWatch: Aerial footage shows thousands of people on Sydney Harbour BridgeA planned pro-Palestinian protest across the Sydney Harbour Bridge has gone ahead after it...

More than three thousand Boeing defence workers went on strike on Monday, in a fresh blow to the embattled aviation giant.It comes after union members at operations in Missouri...

A white South African farmer and his two employees accused of shooting dead two black women and feeding their bodies to pigs are due to go on trial for...

A Singapore-based billionaire hotelier has pleaded guilty to a charge connected to a rare corruption scandal that shocked the country last year. Ong Beng Seng has admitted to abetting...

Strong gusts of wind helped two huge waterspouts merge just off Italy's Delta del Po, on the country's east coast. A local tour boat operator paused an excursion so...

Victoria GillScience correspondent, BBC NewsBernardo Reyes-TurA Polymita snail in its native forest habitat in Eastern Cuba Researchers have embarked on a mission to save what some consider to be...

More than 60 migrants died when a boat carrying around 150 people sank off the coast of Yemen in bad weather on Sunday.The vessel capsized off Yemen's southern province...

Democratic state lawmakers have fled Texas in a bid to stop a vote on a new congressional map that would heavily favour Republicans.The redistricting, unveiled by Texas' majority Republicans...