A man has been sentenced to more than six years in prison after hacking into a state database to fake his death, and get out of paying child support.Jesse...

South Africans are paying tributes to their “favourite teacher", William Smith, who has died aged 85.The beloved maths and science teacher and innovator died on Wednesday morning after a...

A barrier that was erected to block a popular view of Mount Fuji has been taken down after successfully deterring tourists from swarming the area.Authorities in Yamanashi prefecture installed...

BBC“I don’t deserve to be here at all” is a protestation you would expect to hear from someone in prison. But, as she sits in her maroon overalls, Tetyana...

A journalist working for Venezuelan opposition news site La Patilla has been detained by the country's secret police.Ana Guaita Barreto was seized at her home near the capital, Caracas,...

A Greek-owned and flagged oil tanker is on fire and adrift in the Red Sea after a series of attacks, British and Greek authorities say.The Sounion was first hit...

Oprah says 'there is no American dream' without women's rightsTelevision icon Oprah Winfrey made a surprise appearance at the Democratic National Convention in her hometown of Chicago, where she...

Getty ImagesWhen breaker Rachael Gunn – aka Raygun – bombed out of the Paris Olympics, the shockwaves hit a tiny hip-hop scene on the other side of the world.In...

The family of Alain Delon have overruled the late French actor's request for his pet dog to be put down and buried with him.The 88-year-old, who died on Sunday,...

Eulita JeropKenyan Eulita Jerop has been in Lebanon for 14 months but now wants to leave“I want to go home,” Kenyan Eulita Jerop tells the BBC from Lebanon, where...

A Thailand parliamentary investigation has been formally requested into veteran politician and former army chief Prawit Wongsuwon after he hit a journalist last week. The Palang Pracharath Party (PPRP)...

FacebookCanadian-Antiguan national Recaldo Thomas was working on the Bayesian as a chefA body recovered near the luxury yacht which sank off the coast of Sicily is believed to be...