Aung San Suu Kyi has denied the ethnic cleansing of Myanmar's Muslim minority, speaking to the BBC after the UN rights...
Nigeria has started a mass vaccination programme in a bid to stop an outbreak of meningitis. More than 300 people have...
The BBC has wrongly announced the death of Radio 2 DJ Brian Matthew, later clarifying that he "remains critically ill"....
South Africa’s embattled president has been backed by a major decision-making body within the ruling ANC. It was...
Shia LaBeouf's latest film hasn't exactly set the box office on fire. War movie Man Down, which also stars Gary Oldman,...
Facebook is taking fresh action to prevent so-called revenge porn from being spread across its platforms. The social...
Taiwan has announced plans for eight new submarines, a senior Taiwanese navy official confirmed on Wednesday. The new...
South Africa’s embattled president has been backed by a major decision-making body within the ruling ANC. It was...
Russia's Supreme Court has begun hearing a government request to outlaw the Jehovah's Witnesses and declare it an...
More than 7,500 households have lost their housing benefit and instead receive a nominal 50p a week because of the...
Brian Matthew, the veteran broadcaster who hosted Sounds of the 60s on BBC Radio 2, has died at the age of 88. His...
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and Prince Harry have arrived at a "service of hope", following last month's...
Russian claims that a release of chemicals that killed and injured dozens of civilians in northern Syria came from...
A Malaysian MP has drawn outrage for saying it can be OK for rapists to marry their victims and that some 12-year-old...
BBC News NI has tracked down a serial child sex abuser who admitted his crimes to police but has never been brought to...
The UN has said it has found 13 mass graves in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s central Kasai province since the...
Russia says that chemical gas that killed and injured dozens of civilians in a rebel-held town in northern Syria came...
At least 26 people have been killed and 40 wounded in an attack by Islamic State militants in the Iraqi city of Tikrit,...
Apple has acknowledged that the design of its standalone desktop computer, the Mac Pro, restricted its ability to...