Getty Images Drug-resistant infections are most prevalent in critical care units Antibiotics are hailed as medical saviours. But they are increasingly facing a crafty adversary: bacteria that mutate and adapt…

EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock Police have offered a $10,000 (£7,800) reward for information leading to the suspect. New York City police officers are using facial recognition technology and a discarded cell phone to…

France’s political crisis is worse than normal political crises. Normally when a democratic country passes through turbulence, there is some prospect of the turbulence coming to an end. Not today…

BBC Natalia Cavalcante says she built a house on the profits from sex work Dayane Leite never wanted to become a sex worker but at the age of 17 her…

Authorities in Romania have revealed details of what appears to be a major attempt to interfere in the country’s presidential elections using the social media platform TikTok, and with a…

The French government has collapsed after Prime Minister Michel Barnier was ousted in a no-confidence vote. MPs voted overwhelmingly in support of the motion against him – just three months…

Police in the Canadian city of Vancouver say “a number of people” have been stabbed and the suspect has been shot by officers. It is unclear how many people were…

Hostage Families Forum The Israeli military said Itay Svirsky, 38, was “murdered by his captors” The Israeli military says the body of an Israeli hostage held by Hamas in the…

Nicknamed NNN, Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah has made history by being elected as Namibia’s first female president. The 72-year-old won more than 57% of the vote, with her closest rival, Panduleni Itula,…

Watch: Georgian opposition leader bundled into car by police One of Georgia’s opposition leaders has been dragged from his party offices by police, after the prime minister vowed that the…