Early data from Indonesia's National Disaster Management Agency indicates that more than 1,000 houses were damaged by the earthquake, along with dozens of health facilities, schools and government offices.Medical...

An American tourist has died after being struck by lightning while hiking on Mount Etna in Sicily.The 30-year-old, who has not been named by authorities, was on the active...

British diplomats in six locations around the world, including Buenos Aires and Santiago in South America, will no longer get hardship payments for working in dangerous cities.Bonuses and respite...

US President Donald Trump's Middle East envoy Jared Kushner is meeting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the premier's spokesperson has told the BBC.Kushner arrived in Israel last night after...

Prime Minister Andy Burnham exchanged messages with a person posing as the chief of staff to US President Donald Trump.Downing Street has declined to comment on the security breach,...

Australia's most populous state will launch a gun buyback scheme later this year, becoming the first to offer cash in exchange for firearms following the Bondi Beach terror attack.Gun...

Four Renaissance paintings of "extraordinary value" have been stolen from a museum in Sicily, Italy's culture minister has said.Alessandro Giuli confirmed that three panels of the Polyptych of San...

The crisis had calmed since breaking out in late July, but it has sparked tensions between EU nations that share open borders as well as criticism of the Spanish...

Around 5,000 people have been displaced by a powerful earthquake in Indonesia that has caused at least 53 fatalities.Rescuers continue to search for survivors of the shallow magnitude 7.7...

Six people have been injured at a market in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv, as the country was hit by a series of Russian strikes. Five people were reportedly killed...

A 32-year-old woman, who had been trapped under rubble for 36 hours following the 7.4-magnitude quake which shook western Colombia, has been rescued alive.Daniela Largo was pulled from beneath...

Iran has called for the release of three pilots it said were captured by Qatar after two of its fighter jets were hit by air defences during a military...