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This report contains some disturbing images: Islamist insurgents in Iraq have seized the city of Tikrit, their second
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The town of Hanford, Washington, was the site of a World War Two-era plutonium processing operation that left it one
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Drivers of London's iconic black taxis are planning to cause a gridlock in the city to protest against the car
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A protest against a mobile phone app by London's taxi drivers has brought large parts of the centre of the
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As many as 500,000 people have been forced to flee the Iraqi city of Mosul after Islamist militants effectively took
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BBC World News America's Laura Trevelyan sits down with Ban Ki-moon, the Secretary-General of the United Nations to discuss Iran's
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Six people have been killed in violent storms which battered cities in western Germany overnight.The same weather system
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In the first video from our Real Fans series, the BBC's Fran Strasser sits down with a Spanish soccer fan
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There has been a sharp rise in the number of sexual assaults in South Sudan, since fighting between two ethnic
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With just days to go until the World Cup kicks off in Brazil, the BBC has been getting to know
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Several beaches in the US state of Alabama were closed on Monday because of a group of sharks swimming close
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Part of the parapet of the world famous Pont Des Arts bridge in Paris has collapsed under the weight of
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Brazilian riot police have used tear gas against protesters in Sao Paulo, three days before the World Cup opening game
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Rio de Janeiro Mayor Eduardo Paes told BBC News that tourists coming to Rio for the World Cup need not
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Danica Weeks, whose husband Paul was on flight MH370, told BBC Breakfast that "every day is torment for us... we
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Gunfire has reportedly resumed at Karachi airport after Sunday's attack by gunmen, which left 23 people dead and a number
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There are reports of continuing atrocities in Nigeria by the radical Islamist group Boko Haram, which kidnapped more than a
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Every country has its standout player - Messi, Ronaldo, Suarez but one unsung hero will be involved in every goal.
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Ramallah in the West Bank is being billed as a new technology hub for the Arab world. BBC Click's
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Conor McNamara introduces his guide to 'Commentators guide to the World Cup in Brazil.Subscribe http://www.youtube.com/bbcnews
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Young sumo Musashikuni and stable master Musashimaru spoke to BBC News about what the life of a sumo involves.
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Can Mexico's World Cup team have the same success as their youth squad? Jason Margolis from PRI's The
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Researchers find evidence of the world that crashed into Earth billions of years ago to form the Moon.Subscribe
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Sikh groups wielding ceremonial swords have clashed in the Golden Temple in Amritsar in northern India. Several people were injured
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Benedict Cumberbatch reads from the original radio news script from 6 June, 1944.Subscribe http://www.youtube.com/bbcnewsCheck
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Malaysia's opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim talks about his legal battle, opposition politics and Malaysia's missing airliner. Subscribe
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US Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel exclusive interview in which he discusses crisis in Ukraine, as well as defence spending,
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'I saw the gun as he cocked' says Malcolm Fox, a South African mountain biker captured the moment he was
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The self-declared chairman of the Donetsk People's Republic, Denis Pushilin, talks to the BBC's Steve Rosenberg about the unrest in
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The world may be eagerly waiting for the World Cup to begin, but discontent rules on the streets of Brazil.
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Commemorations are taking place in Portsmouth and Normandy to mark 70 years since the D-Day landings in France. British, American
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Brazilian football fanatic has been carving out his favourite players in the unlikeliest of places - watermelons.Subscribe
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There are distractions including anti World Cup protests over the cost of staging it across Brazil, and falling attendances for
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In an exclusive interview with BBC News Chuck Hagel defends the decision to release 5 senior Taliban members from Guantanamo
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A gunman has shot dead, 3 police officers, in south-eastern Canada. Another 2 officers - and a third person -
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First broadcast 4 June 1989. Chinese troops opened fire on pro-democracy protesters in Beijing's Tiananmen Square on Saturday evening. The
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An international team of bike enthusiasts have made an auto-balancing bike, Jyrobike, that they claim can teach children to ride
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research in Rio de Janeiro shows that only 45 percent of people in the city support the tournament. But even
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Some of Brazil's football superstars reveal what they thing about the possible protests during the World Cup.Subscribe