Tom Hiddleston has surprisingly missed out on a Bafta TV nomination for his role in The Night Manager. The British star had been expected to be up for lead actor after winning a Golden Globe for his...
Shell has admitted for the first time it dealt with a convicted money-launderer when negotiating access to a vast oil field in Nigeria. It comes after emails were published showing Shell negotiated...
G7 foreign ministers will attempt to agree a common position on the Syrian conflict, before the US secretary of state flies to Russia to try to persuade it to abandon its Syrian ally. Rex Tillerson...
Google has challenged China’s top Go player to a series of games against its artificial intelligence technology. It said the software would play a best-of-three match against Ke Jie, among other...
British Vogue has confirmed Edward Enninful as its first male editor. Enninful, who has previously worked for Italian and American Vogue, will take over from Alexandra Shulman, who announced her...
Shell has admitted for the first time it dealt with a convicted money-launderer when negotiating access to a vast oil field in Nigeria. It comes after emails were published showing Shell negotiated...
At least five soldiers have been killed and more than 15 wounded after a suicide bomber wearing a military uniform blew himself up inside a military base in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, witnesses...
South Africa's scandal-hit President Jacob Zuma has denounced as racist some of the placards displayed at mass protests last week to demand his removal from power. Mr Zuma has been speaking at a...
Ndechumia Bilali Kimali is due to appear in court on drug trafficking charges A Kenyan accused of being the mastermind of a drug trafficking syndicate has arrived in the country under police escort...
He said they were taking revenge after a military defeat A rebel official in South Sudan and a Roman Catholic priest say a number of people have been killed in the town of Wau because of their...
Further sanctions will be considered against Russia over the "appalling" behaviour of the Syrian regime, Boris Johnson says. The foreign secretary urged Russia to "work with the rest of the world"...
Ed Sheeran has struck a deal to end a $20m (£13.8m) copyright infringement legal claim over his hit song Photograph. Songwriters Thomas Leonard and Martin Harrington sued the singer last June,...
President Donald Trump has said Neil Gorsuch will be "truly great", as the Colorado judge took the oath to become a justice on the US Supreme Court. "And I got it done in the first 100 days," Mr...
Some key allies of the ANC called for President Jacob Zuma to step down South African President Jacob Zuma has branded protesters calling for his resignation "racists", saying they held placards that...
Videos showing a man being violently removed from a United Airlines flight have provoked an outcry on social media. The footage taken inside the airliner shows a man being violently pulled out of his...
Thousands of police officers have gathered in London for the funeral of PC Keith Palmer, who was killed in last month's Westminster attack. PC Palmer was guarding the Houses of Parliament on 22 March...
Egypt’s President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi has announced a three-month state of emergency after attacks on two Coptic churches that left at least 44 dead. The measure allows authorities to make arrests...
Unprecedented coral bleaching in consecutive years has damaged two-thirds of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, aerial surveys have shown. The bleaching – or loss of algae – affects a 1,500km (900...
The BBC has seen evidence that top executives at Shell knew money paid to the Nigerian government for a vast oil field would be passed to a convicted money-launderer. It also had reason to believe...
Egypt's President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi has announced a three-month state of emergency after attacks on two Coptic churches that left at least 44 dead. The measure allows authorities to make arrests...
