International News

More than 300 schoolgirls have been kidnapped by unidentified gunmen from a school in Nigeria's north-western Zamfara state, police say. Security officers have been dispatched...

Two moments of silence have been held in New York at the exact time 14 years ago that the two planes struck the towers...

The UN has released its assessment of national plans to limit climate change, submitted by 146 countries. Officials say the submissions, in their current form,...

Democrats in the US House of Representatives are about to vote on whether to hold Attorney General William Barr in contempt of Congress. A BBC...

US President Joe Biden has called for a historic change to Senate rules as he seeks to overhaul the country's election laws. In an impassioned...

A German man strangled and dismembered his wife before encasing her head in a concrete block and drowning himself in an Austrian lake, police...

A car has reportedly rammed the gate of the Brazilian president's palace in the capital Brasilia as pressure grows on Michel Temer to resign. Security...

A fast-moving fire swept through a historic district of Bangladesh's capital, Dhaka, killing at least 78 people. According to the BBC, the blaze broke out...

Protesters in Lebanon have attacked several bank buildings, set tyres alight and smashed windows to demand their money back. The angry demonstrations took place on...

Turkey's president has warned it could sever ties with Israel if the US recognizes Jerusalem as its capital. Recep Tayyip Erdogan said such a move...