The BBC’s Laura Bicker sees the Shenzhou 19 spacecraft take off in a record year of space exploration. Witnesses say police dispersed crowds of partygoers, while photos of arrests have ...

Duma Boko is elected the country's first president not from the ruling party, in power for 58 years. President Mokgweetsi Masisi accepts defeat after his party loses its parliamentary majority.

Once considered as lowbrow genre, horror movies have taken the Hindi film industry by storm this year. India has built a 3km-long runway on Agalega and no-one has fully explained why, angering ...

At least 20 children are among the dead in attacks north of Beirut and in northern Gaza, officials rescuers and medics say. The move comes after US officials were quoted saying they would not ...

Andrés Bracamonte, known as Pillín, was gunned down near his club's stadium in Rosario. Antônio Vinicius Gritzbach had recently agreed to hand over information about the Primeiro Comando da ...

The 400-page fantasy novel is accused of stereotyping Indigenous Australians. Most children jailed in the Northern Territory are Aboriginal, and the new government is reducing the age that can happen.

About 50 others were injured in the blast, the city's commissioner says. The smog covering Pakistan's second largest city has been captured in satellite images. India’s ban on the import of ...

Trump won the election on a platform of steep import taxes, including tariffs as high as 60% on China. A 17-year-old student was hailed as a genius, until it emerged she'd cheated. Witnesses say ...

Parades are held across the islands as people came together to remember military personnel. Hidden photo of unknown uncle inspires book Warning issued after tumble dryer fire Islanders advised to ...

The comments were delivered at a gathering of foreign ministers as the Kremlin continues to woo Africa. Dozens of videos involving a senior civil servant in Equatorial Guinea have flooded social ...

Bryan Lanza tells the BBC there needs to be an "honest conversation" with Kyiv and returning Crimea is not a US priority. The sentence, handed down by a Russian court, is a rare example of the ...

A section of Groves Road in Douglas is closed off until late January for drainage improvements. Call for nominations for top Manx cultural award October warmer and drier than usual on Isle of Man ...