The hat worn by actor Harrison Ford in the second instalment of the Indiana Jones film franchise has sold for nearly half a million pounds at auction.The brown felt...

Australian breakdancer Rachael Gunn says the backlash to her performance at the Olympics has been "devastating". Gunn - who is known as B-girl Raygun - has been the subject...

Getty ImagesPaetongtarn Shinawatra with her father and former PM, Thaksin Paetongtarn Shinawatra brings a fresh, young face, and yet another member of the powerful Shinawatra clan, to the country’s...

A selection of the week's best photos from across the African continent and beyond:GORDWIN ODHIAMBO / AFPKenyan ballet pupils rehearse before a show in Nairobi's Kibera neighbourhood on Wednesday.BILLEL...

Thailand's parliament has picked Paetongtarn Shinawatra, the daughter of billionaire tycoon and former leader Thaksin, as prime minister.At 37, she will be the country's youngest PM and the second...

Crown Copyright, Courtesy of the National Museum of the Royal NavyHMS Hawke was a Royal Navy warship which was sunk in WW1A wreck discovered off the Aberdeenshire coast is...

Wanted Peruvian gang leader Gianfranco Torres-Navarro has been arrested in the US, officials say.Torres-Navarro, 38, was detained in New York state after entering the country illegally at the Texas-Mexico...

Dozens of Israeli settlers have set fire to houses and cars in a village in the occupied West Bank, with the Palestinian health ministry saying at least one person...

Hurricane Ernesto is heading for the Caribbean island of Bermuda, having crossed Puerto Rico where it left more than half of homes and businesses without power.With wind gusts of...

The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra (MSO) has admitted it made an "error" in cancelling an acclaimed pianist’s performance due to comments he made on the Israel-Gaza war.On Sunday, Jayson Gillham...

Getty ImagesAir Koryo planes are lined up at the airport in Samjiyon, North Korea in this file photoNorth Korea will reopen one city to foreign tourists in December after...

For Zambia's population, its football team was a beacon of hope.The price of copper, the country's primary export, had almost halved in the past four years, tanking the economy....