Getty ImagesAustralia is the world's largest producer of lithium oreOften called “white gold” and the key component in rechargeable batteries, the metal lithium is so light that it floats...

'Nowhere here is safe': BBC's Orla Guerin reports from Lebanese hospitalIn the hills of the Bekaa Valley - as in swathes of Lebanon - death can come from the...

A zookeeper has been mauled to death by a lion in south-western Nigeria after he failed to secure the locks on its enclosure when he went to feed it,...

Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan has told fans "it's good to be back" after winning the best actor award at the International Indian Film Academy Awards.Khan was referring to...

FILIP SINGER/EPA-EFE/REX/ShutterstockVictory does not mean Herbert Kickl's Freedom Party will automatically be able to form a governmentAustria's far-right Freedom Party is heading for an unprecedented general election victory under...

Planned power cuts in Ecuador have begun a day early as severe drought disrupts its hydroelectric plants.The country is suffering its worst drought in 60 years, with no significant...

Israeli strikes on Friday, which are now known to have killed Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, concluded a week of Israeli strikes on southern areas of the Lebanese capital, Beirut....

BBCAfter nearly two decades of student loan payments, Angela Carpio, 40, thought the finishing line was in sight.But now she's caught in the middle of a political tug of...

Ricciardo’s jovial character and sense of humour has made him one of F1's most popular characters throughout his 13-year career.And for seven seasons, from 2014 to 2020 inclusive, he...

Goktay Koraltan / BBCMadina Mustafa Ali (right) says she and her seven-month-old baby Amir will be staying on Beirut's Martyrs' Square as they have nowhere else to goLebanon is...

Seventeen people have been killed in a mass shooting in a remote South African town with a manhunt under way to find the perpetrators, police say.Two homesteads on the...

ReutersThe death toll is likely to rise as the rain is forecast to persist until TuesdayAt least 66 people have died and 69 others are missing, officials say, after...