The Ebola outbreak in West Africa was first reported in March 2014, and has rapidly become the deadliest occurrence of the disease since its discovery in 1976. In fact, the current epidemic ...

Opioid abuse (or painkiller drug addiction) is a persistent scourge in the United States and an emerging problem in India. Hannah Cornett in US city of Louisville and Anusua Banerjee in Indi ...

Last summer, the group known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) swept from Syria into northern Iraq, routing Iraqi security forces and seizing the city of Mosul. Soon afterward, t ...

Voters in the Republic of Ireland can take part in a referendum next Friday on whether or not to legalise gay marriage. In a Politics Europe film from Galway, Adam Fleming hears how the deb ...

The 'King of the Blues' guitarist and singer, BB King, has died aged 89, his lawyer says. Known for his hits Lucille, Sweet Black Angel and Rock Me Baby, he died in his sleep in Las Vegas. ...

Security has been tightened in Baghdad to protect the many Shia Muslims who are converging on the capital. There is a religious festival taking place marking the death of the seventh Imam i ...

On the 70th anniversary of VE day, BBC News speaks to three people about the war and the day peace was declared. BBC News spoke to three people who remember the fighting and the declaration ...