Why are people in Toronto so excited about her engagement to Prince Harry?

A structure that allows sound information to be processed extremely fast has been identified in bats' brains.

The president refers to a senator who claims Native American heritage as Pocahontas.

In one day, more than 200,000 Americans requested a background check in order to legally buy a gun.

The teenager's initial six-year term for planning to bomb two schools is increased to eight.

The three, who run a cyber security firm in China, are alleged to have targeted leading corporations.

Matt Smith and Luke Freeman score injury-time goals to rescue a dramatic point for QPR in a 2-2 draw with Brentford.

The England and Wales Cricket Board says all-rounder Ben Stokes is not on his way to join up with Ashes squad.

Police allege the 20-year-old was planning to shoot people during New Year's Eve celebrations.

When Prince Harry marries next year, Meghan Markle will not be the first American in his family tree.

Calls for Ireland's deputy PM to resign could derail the coalition ahead of a key EU summit.

And the prince is not the first royal to be inspired by family diamonds.

A small market town in Kashmir has become a haven for foreign militants, say India's security forces.

The BBC's Reeta Chakrabarti uncovers evidence of teenage Rohingya girls being forced into sex work in Bangladesh.

Ex-Catalan leaders' life in prison includes lots of free time and "horrendous" food, writes the BBC's James Reynolds.

Imagine pointing your phone's camera at any object and being given useful information about it.

Indian organisation Educate Girls has helped enroll 150,000 girls at school.

How did stockfish - cod dried in Norway’s cold air - became a Nigerian staple?

One firm has developed an interactive cash-machine which, it says, can do 80% of the tasks typically undertaken in a bank.

More than 1,000 water systems across the US have drinking water that fails safety standards for lead. For the BBC's America First? series the BBC's Aleem Maqbool is exploring health and social issues where the US, the richest country in the world, does not…

Plumes of dark ash reach as high as 3km above the summit of the rumbling Mount Agung.