An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.8 has struck in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. An earlier earthquake with a magnitude of 4.5 hit the north-western Gansu Province, killi ...

Ceremonies are being staged around the world to mark one year since more than 200 girls were abducted from Chibok by the Nigerian militant Islamist group Boko Haram. A procession is being h ...

A week since nearly 150 people were killed in an carefully planned attack by the Islamist group al-Shabab, the BBC has been given exclusive access to the university dormitories where the stu ...

Wingsuit daredevil Sebastian Alvarez has been showing off his flying skills by smashing through flag on the side of a Chilean volcano. The target was just 2m wide, as Adnan Nawaz explains. ...

The battle for the Yemeni port of Aden has turned it into a "ghost city", the head of the ICRC has told the BBC. Robert Ghosen said medical aid was urgently needed in the city, where Shia H ...

At least 70 hostages have been killed in an attack by al-Shabab Islamist militants on a university in north-eastern Kenya, officials say. At least 79 were injured while more than 500 studen ...

As Nigeria eagerly awaits the results of this weekend's elections, people across the country are feeling apprehensive. Post election violence killed over 1000 people in 2011 and a repeat is ...

The Saudi envoy to Washington says Saudi Arabia and allies have launched air strikes against Houthi rebels in Yemen. Rough Cut (no reporter narration). Subscribe: http://smarturl.it/reute ...

The delayed global response to the outbreak of Ebola in West Africa "increased the spread" of the virus, medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres has claimed. In a report, published one yea ...