At least 48 people have been killed in central Nigeria’s Niger state, after a fuel tanker collided with a lorry carrying passengers and cattle, the country’s disaster agency said. The

An influential Filipino pastor wanted in the Philippines and the US for child sex trafficking has been arrested, ending a two-week long standoff between police officers and his followers. Police

A barrage of allegations against the chief of India’s market regulator poses a credibility threat to the country’s watchdog, top fund managers have told the BBC. Multiple charges, mostly around

Pope Francis has touched down in Timor-Leste – the only Catholic-majority country he will visit on his 12-day Asia-Pacific tour. Around 700,000 people – more than half of Timor-Leste’s entire

Australian police are working with their international counterparts to locate a man they believe fled the country after pouring boiling coffee on a baby in Brisbane. The random attack –

Two women who say they were raped and strangled by the controversial social media influencer, Andrew Tate, have spoken to the BBC about their experiences. Another woman has alleged, for

At least 14 people have been killed in Israeli air strikes on a number of military sites in central Syria, the Syrian state news agency reports. Sana cited a hospital

Fleeing the town she has lived in most of her life, Maria Honcharenko is taking just one small bag, and her two tiny kittens. After stubbornly staying on in the

This story contains distressing details from the start. “This is like doomsday for me. I feel so much grief. Can you imagine what I’ve gone through watching my children dying?”

Britain’s Jack Draper vomited on court during a dramatic US Open semi-final defeat by world number one Jannik Sinner. The 22-year-old British number one’s breakout run at a Grand Slam