At least 25 people are reported to have died and dozens are injured after tornadoes tore through parts of two US states.Officials in Kentucky said there had been 18...

Katy WatsonAustralia correspondentWatch: How snakes and spiders are milked for venomWith a pair of bright pink tweezers in hand, Emma Teni is delicately wrestling a large and leggy spider...

Watch: The BBC's Nada Tawfik on how Diddy's lawyers used freak-off texts against CassieCassie Ventura has tearfully told a court she would give back a $20m (£15m) legal settlement...

Wedaeli ChibelushiBBC NewsGetty ImagesOzwald Boateng (L), was at this month's Met Gala, with his son (C), Oscar, and daughter (R), EmiliaOzwald Boateng, celebrating four decades of making his indelible...

Cherylann MollanBBC News, MumbaiBBCThe museum contains artefacts and furniture from prominent Parsi familiesTucked away in a lane in the southern end of India's financial capital, Mumbai, is a museum...

EPA-EFE/ShutterstockUK entry Remember Monday perform during the second Eurovision semi-final, for which they had automatic qualificationThe Eurovision Song Contest is back - this time in Basel, Switzerland.The UK's entry...

Brazilian authorities say they are investigating river contamination levels after a truck accident caused a chemical dye spill in São Paulo. The leak occurred after a vehicle carrying containers...

Rushdi Abualouf, Cairo; Yolande Knell, Jerusalem; Mallory Moench, LondonBBC NewsReutersA mourner reacts during the funeral of Palestinians killed in Israeli strikes at the Indonesian hospital in Beit LahiaNearly 100...

Flames ripped through a former plantation house in Louisiana, which was built in 1859, destroying much of the historic structure.The fire started on Thursday afternoon, when two employees saw...

An Australian novelist jailed in China has in a letter to his supporters and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese detailed his "unbearable suffering" as he enters his seventh year...

Police in Colombia have arrested the alleged main suspect in the murder of 13 kidnapped workers at a gold mine in neighbouring Peru.Miguel Antonio Rodríguez Díaz, whose alias is...

ReutersUS President Donald Trump has given members of South Africa's Afrikaner community refugee status, alleging that a genocide was taking place in the country. Nearly 60 of them have...