Detained Ugandan opposition politician Kizza Besigye, on hunger strike for a week, has been returned to prison after being in a clinic overnight, his allies have said.The 68-year-old was...

Her fellow shooter Avani Lekhara was presented with the BBC ISWOTY Para-sportswoman of the Year award.The 23-year-old is the first Indian woman to win three Paralympic medals, with gold...

Getty ImagesFrench President Emmanuel Macron will be hosting European leaders in Paris for urgent talks on Ukraine's futureEurope's leaders are scrambling. Their hastily convened security summit in Paris on...

The Mexican army says it has seized more than four tonnes of methamphetamine in raids conducted in the violence-wracked state of Sinaloa over the weekend. Soldiers raided warehouses and...

When US President Donald Trump wanted someone to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin last week to open negotiations for a potential deal to end the Russia-Ukraine war, he didn't...

ReutersHampton Dellinger was fired in a one-sentence email this monthPresident Donald Trump has asked the US Supreme Court to allow him to fire the head of an independent ethics...

Severe flooding in Queensland has forced thousands of people to evacuate, cut power to homes and washed away sections of a vital highway. In Townsville, one of the hardest-hit...

More than 40 people, mostly women, were killed after an illegal gold mine collapsed in Mali on Saturday.The collapse took place near Kéniéba, in Mali's western, gold-rich Kayes region.The...

Rwandan-backed M23 rebels have entered Bukavu, the second-largest city in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, seizing the regional governor's office.Some people lined the streets to clap and cheer...

Abhinav Goel and Dilnawaz PashaBBC Hindi, DelhiCrowds join deadly 'stampede' at New Delhi railway stationOn Sunday morning, the New Delhi Railway Station in India's capital looked much like it...

A stabbing in Austria that killed a 14-year-old boy and wounded five others was an Islamist attack, Austrian officials have said. The attack took place on Saturday at Villach,...

Gemma HandyReporter, St John's, AntiguaGemma HandyNovella Payne uses traditional recipes learnt from her grandmotherIt is not cricket or politics that triggers the most ardent debate in Antigua and Barbuda....