Jesse Merkel, whose eight-year-old son Fletcher was killed during a shooting at Annunciation Catholic School on Wednesday, read a family statement outside the church targeted by the attacker. He described…

Samira HussainSouth Asia Correspondent, BBC News, Delhi BBC Soyed Noor (centre) and some of the other refugees spoke to the BBC via a video call from Myanmar Noorul Amin last…

Investigators say that the attacker who opened fire on pupils as they were praying at a church in Minneapolis was “obsessed with the idea of killing children”. The attacker, who…

Russia launched a major attack on Ukraine’s capital Kyiv in the early hours of Thursday evening, killing at least 19 people, including four children. Among the targets hit were a…

Seven migrants deported from the US have arrived in Rwanda, the first of 250 expected to be taken in by the African state under a deal reached with President Donald…

Several investigations have been launched after a Spanish man in Kenya posted videos of himself pouring beer down an elephant’s trunk – sparking anger on social media. He was filmed…

Katy WatsonBBC News in Kyiv Getty Images The deadliest strike of the night was on a low-rise block of flats on Kyiv’s left bank By day, Kyiv can often feel…

This summer, hundreds of wildfires broke out across Turkey, forcing tens of thousands of people to evacuate their homes. But one orchard – in the north-western province of Bursa –…