The Malaysian government says it has agreed in principle to resume the search for a passenger jet that vanished 10 years ago in one of aviation's greatest mysteries.Malaysia Airlines...

The speaker of Liberia's House of Representatives has denied being involved in a huge fire at the West African nation's legislature.Speaker Jonathan Fonati Koffa was among those questioned by...

Ammar Bajwa/ Naveed AsgharMuhammad Sufyan (left) and Mohammad Abid (right) were among the victims after migrant boats capsized off GreeceJaved Iqbal, a Pakistani carpenter working in Saudi Arabia, tells...

EPAMarcin Romanowski had failed to attend a court hearing before it emerged he had sought asylum in HungaryPoland has accused Hungary of acting in a hostile manner by granting...

Ronald Diaz/ Conservation InternationalAn amphibious mouse with webbed feet and a blob-headed fish are among 27 new species scientists have discovered in Peru.They were found in an expedition to...

BBC/Matthew GoddardThe BBC was granted rare access to the largest prison for IS detainees - Al Sina - which holds some 5,000 menAs the new Syria struggles to take...

Getty ImagesThe prime minister is expected to name Lord Peter Mandelson - one of the best known figures in British politics - as the UK's next ambassador to the...

British YouTuber Yung Filly has pleaded guilty to reckless driving in Australia while on bail over rape allegations.The 29-year-old, whose real name is Andrés Felipe Valencia Barrientos, admitted to...

As French President Emmanuel Macron arrives in Mayotte to survey the damage caused by Cyclone Chido, the BBC's Mayeni Jones says the devastation wrought by the storm is immediately...

Thirty-five children have been killed in a crush at a funfair in the south-west Nigerian city of Ibadan, with six others hospitalised, the police say.The event was advertised as...

EPAA Labour minister has been named in an investigation into claims her family embezzled up to £3.9bn (Tk 590 billion) from infrastructure projects in Bangladesh.Tulip Siddiq, who as the...

CLEMENT MAHOUDEAU/AFPIt was Gisèle Pelicot's decision to open the case to the public that has given the trial international significanceJudges in the French city of Avignon have sentenced Dominique...