Nigeria's anti-graft agency has said it has made its biggest ever seizure of assets, alleged to have been purchased with the proceeds of corruption.The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission...

Getty ImagesDiego Garcia hosts a joint UK-US military baseMigrants stranded for more than three years on the remote Indian Ocean island of Diego Garcia have been brought to the...

A deal that could see the Parthenon Sculptures returned to Greece is "close", a former adviser to the country's government has told the BBC.Prof Irene Stamatoudi said it "seems...

A man has been caught trying to smuggle hundreds of endangered spiders and insects out of Peru. Officials stopped the 28-year-old Korean citizen, who had hidden the animals about...

Israel said it struck targets in Lebanon on Monday evening after vowing to retaliate for an attack by Hezbollah on a military post, with both sides accusing each other...

A woman from Hawaii who was reported missing in Los Angeles by her family last month was last seen by US authorities safely crossing the southern US border into...

A former childcare worker dubbed "one of Australia's worst paedophiles" has been sentenced to life in prison for raping and sexually abusing almost 70 girls.Ashley Paul Griffith, 47, confessed...

A Belgium court has ordered the government to pay reparations to five mixed-race women who were forcibly removed from their families in the colonial-era Belgian Congo.The women, now in...

Fans climb over walls in panic after football matchAt least 56 people have been killed in a crush at a football match in Guinea's second-largest city, Nzérékoré, the government...

Getty ImagesSea turtles are consumed as a delicacy in some communities in the PhilippinesThree people have died and at least 32 were hospitalised in the Philippines after eating an...

The boss of car-making giant Stellantis, Carlos Tavares, has quit with immediate effect following a boardroom clash.His abrupt exit from the company - which owns brands including Vauxhall, Jeep,...

US President-elect Donald Trump has threatened to impose 100% tariffs on a bloc of nine nations if they were to create a rival currency to the US dollar. "The...