BBC Laila Soueif has not eaten for more than three weeks and is past the stage of feeling hungry. In London to campaign for the release of her British-Egyptian son,…

An Aboriginal protester has been arrested at the Sydney Opera House as crowds await a glimpse of the King and Queen on the final day of their tour in Australia.…

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Some Indigenous leaders have criticised an Australian senator’s heckling of King Charles, as she faces a backlash over a violent image of the monarch briefly posted to her social media…

A court in Peru has sentenced former President Alejandro Toledo to 20 years and six months in jail for corruption and money-laundering. Prosecutors say he took $35m (£27m) in bribes…

Chaves County Sheriff Mike Herrington said he had to climb onto his car roof when rising floodwaters stranded the vehicle and several others, submerging them up to the windows. 309…

Two hitmen have pleaded guilty in a Canadian court over the shooting of a man acquitted of the 1985 bombing of an Air India flight. Tanner Fox and Jose Lopez…

Getty Images A bulk of India’s 1.4 billion people live in villages The tiny villages of Haryana state in India’s rural north-west find themselves in an unlikely spotlight these days.…

Getty Images The meteorite was 40-60km in diameter and left a crater 500km across A huge meteorite first discovered in 2014 caused a tsunami bigger than any in known human…

Imagine you’re Vladimir Putin. The West has dubbed you a pariah for invading Ukraine. Sanctions are aiming to cut off your country’s economy from global markets. And there’s an arrest…