Getty ImagesActress Lupita Nyong'o has condemned the Kenyan authorities' crackdown on huge anti-tax protests that began in June.Demonstrators were met with police brutality, according to rights groups, with dozens...

Gunmen have killed at least 20 people at a coal mine in Balochistan province in southwestern Pakistan, according to local police.The attackers stormed the workers' accommodation at the Junaid...

RTVEDNA samples were taken in 2003 from the bones of Columbus - known in Spanish as Cristóbal Colón - and his son HernandoMore than five centuries after he re-shaped...

Video shows the dramatic moment a historic church in Iquique, Chile, was destroyed by fire. Twelve firefighting units attended the blaze at the San Francisco Church on Friday, but...

Getty ImagesIsrael’s ground invasion of Lebanon is about to end its second week, as Israel’s war has already entered its second year. Appeals for a ceasefire have increased following...

As Hurricane Helene and Hurricane Milton tore through Florida, some influencers ignored evacuation orders, risking their lives to post livestreams and stunts.The content creators are keen to cash in...

An Australian woman is fighting for life in hospital after her arm was bitten off by her own dog in north Queensland.Emergency services were called to a house in...

Jimmy ChinA foot believed to belong to a British climber who went missing 100 years ago has been found on Mount Everest, in a discovery that may solve one...

Kenya has appealed for urgent financial support from the international community to sustain a police deployment in Haiti, which has been extended by a year.The multinational security mission, which...

BBCCo-chair Toshiyuki Mimaki, who survived the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima, was tearful after it was announced Nihon Hidankyo had wonNihon Hidankyo, a Japanese group of atomic bomb survivors,...

REUTERSBreakdancing made its debut as an official sport at the 2024 Paris OlympicsBreakdancers have been urged to avoid headspinning after a dancer who developed a cone-shaped lump on his...

A "ring of fire" solar eclipse was seen from Easter Island, Chile and Buenos Aires, Argentina on 2 October.Solar eclipses happen when the Moon casts a shadow on Earth...