DAGPatna's Sewak Ram painted this watercolour of prayers at a Muharram festival, 1820Founded in 1600 as a trading enterprise, the English East India company gradually transformed into a colonial...

Andrew HardingBBC Paris correspondentGetty ImagesProtesters outside the court in Vannes have turned out to show their support for Le Scouarnec's victimsIt was supposed to be a defining, catalytic moment...

Mark Poynting and Esme StallardBBC Climate & ScienceGetty ImagesThe world's tropical forests, which provide a crucial buffer against climate change, disappeared faster than ever recorded last year, new satellite...

Getty ImagesCivil defence teams carry a body after the strike in Khan YounisAn Israeli air strike on Gaza hit the home of a doctor and killed nine of her...

Brandon DrenonBBC News, Washington DCGetty ImagesThousands of civilians have been killed by armed militias in recent years, the UN saysA man slept outside in a car park overnight in...

A "really muscly" kangaroo "tried to drown" a man in Australia, after the two got into a punch-up.Don James is said to have found himself fighting for his life...

Several people have suffered life-threatening injuries in a knife attack at the main railway station in the German city of Hamburg, police have said.Hamburg Police said 18 people were...

Nick EricssonBBC World ServiceReutersPresident Trump doubled down on his unfounded claims of a white genocide in a remarkable meeting with President RamaphosaSouth Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa and his delegation...

Prachee KulkarniBBC News, MarathiBBC/Sharad Shankar BadheJayant Narlikar died on Tuesday at the age of 86In his 1983 science fiction story, an Indian astrophysicist predicted what schools would look like...

EPAEU Trade Commissioner Maros Sefcovic warned that Europeans "stand ready to defend our interests"The European Union's trade chief said the 27-member bloc is committed to securing a trade deal...

An Amazonian tribe has sued the New York Times (NYT) over a report about the community gaining access to high-speed internet, which it claims led to its members being...

Paul AdamsBBC diplomatic correspondentReutersA headline in Israel's liberal daily Ha'aretz this week put it starkly: "Diplomatic tsunami nears," it warned, "as Europe begins to act against Israel's 'complete madness'...