The recent increase in requests is overwhelmingly "tongue-in-cheek", lawmakers say.

The bus was hit at a market in Dahyan, in the northern province of Saada.

A family are flown back from El Salvador after being deported midway through their asylum appeal.

Pyongyang says the US is following an "outdated script" which is blocking progress on denuclearisation.

Terminally ill people are seeking out end-of-life doulas to prepare them and their families for death.

Researchers have found that the algae living in coral reefs may have evolved 160 million years ago.

It has been a turbulent summer at Manchester United, so what's really going on at the club? Simon Stone explains.

With the new Premier League season set to start, BBC sports editor Dan Roan examines the issue of player welfare within elite football.

Manager Steven Gerrard says Rangers will not get carried away after a "stunning" second half display earned a 3-1 Europa League win over Maribor.

Tottenham "achieved their objective" and did a "great job" by keeping their best player in the transfer window, says manager Mauricio Pochettino.

As the 2018-19 Premier League season gets under way, we take a club-by-club look back on all the England-based scorers at the 2018 World Cup in Russia.

Several NFL players who protested during the US national anthem before pre-season games have been criticised by President Donald Trump.

Villarreal set a new high bar for player unveilings as Santi Cazorla's return to the club is marked by a magic trick.

Taliban militants sow terror on the streets of Ghazni, south of Kabul, in a major night-time attack.

Naramalli Sivaprasad said he was protesting against a "broken promise" by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Great Britain's Katarina Johnson-Thompson leads the heptathlon in the European Championships with two events to go, plus athletics heats.

Officials say the Weizhou mosque has no building permits but worshippers are refusing to budge.

The BBC is experimenting with a way of delivering the news more quickly.

England's James Anderson dismisses Murali Vijay in the first over of the day in the delayed second Test against India at Lord's.

The rapper is lost for words when asked why he thinks the US president cares about black people.

German cyclist Jan Ullrich allegedly assaulted a prostitute in a luxury hotel in Frankfurt.