Mozambique's ruling party, Frelimo, has won the country's divisive, violence-marred election, extending its 49-year grip on power in the southern African nation, according to official results. Daniel Chapo, Frelimo's...

EPACyclone Dana is expected to make a landfall in the next 24 hoursAuthorities in India are evacuating nearly 1.5 million people from the path of an approaching cyclone in...

BBCRussia's war in Georgia lasted five days, but for many Georgians the invasion is still rawGeorgians know all about Russia's wars. Several years before Russia invaded Ukraine, its army...

Mexican police have arrested a man accused of murdering a Roman Catholic priest and human rights campaigner in the southern state of Chiapas. Father Marcelo Pérez was killed on...

When the air strike hit on Monday night, Fouad Hassan, 74, was sitting on his balcony in south Beirut’s Jnah neighbourhood, reading his phone.No evacuation order was given by...

The owners of a container ship that crashed into Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge have been ordered to pay the US government more than $100m (£77.1m) in damages, the...

Warner scored 8,786 runs at an average of 44.59 in 112 Tests, with 26 centuries, his final match coming in victory over Pakistan at his home Sydney Cricket Ground.The...

ReutersOn Wednesday afternoon, Kamala Harris stood in front of the vice-presidential residence in Washington DC, and delivered a short but withering attack on her Republican presidential opponent.Calling Donald Trump...

Basillioh Rukanga / BBCShaped and coloured like the country’s rare gemstone, tanzanite, the sparkling new railway terminal in Dar es Salaam is a symbol of Tanzania’s transport ambitions.The glass...

A twelfth monkey has died at a Hong Kong zoo, with tests underway to determine if it succumbed to the same bacterial infection that killed 11 other monkeys in...

Alexander Lukashenko says North Korea troops in Ukraine would escalate conflictThere aren’t many world leaders who’ve been in power for 30 years.Alexander Lukashenko of Belarus has been accused of...

A Peruvian priest who founded liberation theology, a movement advocating an active role for the Roman Catholic Church in fighting poverty and injustice but reviled by some as Marxist,...