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...

Lisa LouisFrench farmer Alix Heurtault worries that the trade deal could make it difficult for her to continueAs the ink was drying on one of the world's biggest trade...

Israel has said its fighter jets conducted a series of attacks against military targets in Yemen belonging to the Iran-backed Houthi movement.An Israeli military spokesman said the targets included...

Police say it appears the motive in a shooting that left two dead, along with the suspect, at a private school in Wisconsin was due to "a combination of...

The father of 19-year-old Holly Bowles, who died of suspected methanol poisoning in Laos last month, has said he was in "disbelief" when he realised his daughter would not...

A puzzling flurry of apparent drone sightings along the US east coast is "nothing nefarious", says President Joe Biden.The sightings in recent weeks have occurred in New Jersey and...