BBCThink, Denmark. Images of sleek, impossibly chic Copenhagen, the capital, might spring to mind. As well as a sense of a liberal, open society. That is the Scandinavian cliché.But...

An indigenous lawyer, Hugo Aguilar, looks set to become Mexico's new chief justice following Sunday's ground-breaking judicial election.Mexicans were asked to choose the country's entire judiciary by direct ballot...

The US has vetoed the UN Security Council's draft resolution calling for an "unconditional and permanent" ceasefire in Gaza.The other 14 members voted in favour of the document, which...

A US judge has temporarily halted deportation proceedings against the family of a man accused of Sunday's petrol-bomb attack on Jewish demonstrators in Boulder, Colorado.Mohamed Sabry Soliman, 45, is...

An Australian woman on trial for murder says she threw up the toxic mushroom meal which killed her relatives, after binge eating dessert.Erin Patterson has pleaded not guilty to...

Getty ImagesUS President Donald Trump has signed an order doubling tariffs on steel and aluminium imports from 25% to 50%.The move hikes import taxes on the metals, which are...

Mayeni JonesBBC News, Mahontlong and BobeteSouth Africa policeThe police issued this shot of Tiger when it launched the manhunt in January Nobody in South Africa seems to know where...

Just hours after winning the South Korean presidency, Lee Jae-myung pledged to "unite the people" in his inauguration speech on Wednesday.Lee enters office at a time when the country...

The Dutch government has collapsed after Geert Wilders withdrew his far-right party from the governing coalition following a row over migration.Prime Minister Dick Schoof confirmed he was stepping down...

Police in Mexico have detained a man known by the alias of M-47, whom they suspect of ordering the murder of members of the band Grupo Fugitivo.The bodies of...

Israel said it had launched strikes on weapons belonging to Syria, hours after reports that two projectiles had been fired from Syria into Israel on Tuesday.The Israeli strikes on...

Elon Musk has hit out at President Donald Trump's signature tax and spending bill, describing it as a "disgusting abomination".The legislation - which includes multi-trillion dollar tax breaks and...