International

Ukraine has dismissed as "wishful thinking" Russia's plan to connect a giant Ukrainian nuclear power station to the Russian electricity grid.Russian troops are occupying...

Monkeypox has spread to two countries as a global outbreak continues.Germany and Belgium have both confirmed they have detected cases of the smallpox-like disease.The...

A Kenyan MP who is accused of forging his academic papers did not sit his final year exams at the secondary school he claims...

Volcanoes are unpredictable and their eruptions can have devastating consequences. Some go thousands of years without erupting before suddenly reigning fire on anyone unfortunate enough to be...

Life is full of mysteries – and one of the biggest is why anyone would ever publicly announce they’d won the lottery. It’s a...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and his politicians have called for one thing above everything else over the past few weeks – weapons and more...

North Korea is grappling with the spread of Covid in an unvaccinated population, without access to effective anti-viral drugs.In early 2020, the country sealed...

As the world try to rejuvenate against the ravages of COVID-19, many countries have relaxed restrictions put in place to reduce the spread of...

Inside the dark and damp cell where Britain's most wanted criminal awaited his death.A man named "John Palmer" awaited trial in York Castle Prison, for stealing three...

Monkeypox is surging around the globe and now the rare virus has found its way inside our borders.The first case of monkeypox in the...

The Taliban have ordered female Afghan TV presenters to cover their faces while on air.Media outlets were told of the decree on Wednesday, a...

The Thai government will distribute one million free cannabis plants to households across the nation in June to mark a new rule allowing people...

The family of a 12-year-old boy is suing Apple after he allegedly has suffered permanent hearing loss from an ‘Amber Alert’ on wireless AirPod...

Netflix has laid off about 150 staff, just a month after the entertainment giant said it was losing subscribers for the first time in...

Vladamir Putin's two adult daughters are among the most closely guarded secrets of the Kremlin, and his grandchildren are even more of a mystery.The...

A young man who lost half of his body during a horrific construction accident has bravely spoken about his recovery.Loren Schauers, 20, lost his...

A man attempting to recreate the iconic Titanic movie flying pose with his girlfriend has drowned after the pair plunged into the sea.The couple...

Hundreds of besieged Ukrainian soldiers have emerged from their Mariupol bunker hell and handed themselves over to Russian forces.Their evacuation into Russian custody triggered prisoner swap...

The U. S. has established a new conflict monitoring body which will be used to build legal cases against Russia for crimes committed during...

Russian gymnast Ivan Kuliak has been given a one-year ban for wearing a national war symbol on the podium at an event in Qatar...

Spain has approved a draft bill that would remove the requirement for 16 and 17-year-old girls to have parental consent before terminating a pregnancy.The...

A white student in South Africa has been suspended from university after he was accused of urinating on the property of a black student...

Elon Musk and the acquisition of social media giant, Twitter, have caught the attention of many high-profile individuals.Whether it’s celebrities denouncing their association with...

Sweden on Tuesday signed a formal request to join NATO, a day after the country announced it would seek membership in the 30-member military...

Mykola Kulichenko struggles to recount a tale he shouldn't be alive to tell. But this Ukrainian man believes he was allowed to cheat death...

One of the biggest-ever Nato exercises in the Baltics is now under way.Named "Hedgehog", the drills involve 10 countries, including Finland and Sweden, which...

Police in Honduras have captured a woman accused of leading a drug trafficking clan with four of her sons.Herlinda Bobadilla, 61, was arrested in...

McDonald's has said it will permanently leave Russia after 30 years and has started to sell its restaurants there.The move comes after it temporarily...

A Fitch report alleges that the Nigerian billionaire requires an additional $1.1 billion to complete the refinery but has invested all his cash and even borrowed...

An intense heatwave is sweeping through northern India with temperatures hitting a record 49.2C (120.5F) in parts of the capital, Delhi.This is the fifth...

Somalia’s former leader Hassan Sheikh Mohamud has been elected President after a final vote that was only open to the country’s MPs.He defeated...

The Moon is set to pass through the shadow of the Earth today (May 15) to create an overnight total lunar eclipse.It is set to be the...

A couple has gone viral on social media for their unconventional entry to their reception.Stuntman Gabe Jessop and his wife Ambyr Bambyr Mishelle chose...

Hundreds of Australians have been told to evacuate their homes as Queensland faces another flooding emergency.More than a dozen warnings were issued on Friday,...

A Kenyan nurse who campaigns against early marriage and female genital mutilation says she is "speechless" after winning a prize of $250,000 (£205,000).Anna Qabale...

Two women have been arrested following the death of an eight-month-old baby following a 'medical episode' at a nursery.Greater Manchester Police were called to Tiny...

Large crowds have gathered at the funeral of reporter Shireen Abu Aqla, killed in disputed circumstances in the occupied West Bank.It is taking place...

Sri Lanka's new Prime Minister has told the BBC an economic crisis that has brought misery and unrest is "going to get worse before...

Elon Musk has said his $44bn deal to buy Twitter is temporarily on hold after he queried the number of fake or spam accounts...

A couple in the north Indian state of Uttarakhand are suing their only son and his wife for not giving them a grandchild after...