The killing of Matthew Shepard, who was beaten and left tied to a fence, led to changes in US law.

Three-time Olympic medallist Lindsey Vonn says she will retire at the end of the upcoming World Cup ski season.

A selection of the best photos from across Africa this week.

Rahmat Saiful Bahri tells the BBC what it's like to have survived not just one, but two, tsunamis.

It's the weekly news quiz - have you been paying attention to what's been going on in the world during the past seven days?

Newsbeat exclusively goes behind the scenes of the latest game in the famous franchise.

Lebanon's Grand Sofar Hotel was once a famous meeting point for celebrities and politicians around the Middle East but

Ex-Bollywood actress Tanushree Dutta tells the BBC of the fallout from being "harassed on a set".

Ben Zand heads to Kabul, one of the most terrorised cities in the world, to meet Taliban members.

Lizzie Porter was anorexic throughout her teens, and the years of starvation have left a permanent imprint.

Recovery workers fan out across the Florida coastline assessing the damage from Hurricane Michael.

The IT sector's share of global electricity consumption is predicted to increase rapidly.

Drones flying where they shouldn't has become a big problem, so how can we stop them?

Survivors tell of their terror as they tried to escape a torrent of flood waters.

In 1993, Ken Morgan left the UK to attend a funeral in Jamaica. But he wasn't allowed to return.

But the ambassador in London says it would be "premature" to comment about the missing journalist.

Five southern koalas have been flown from Australia to the UK to create a back-up population.

The "supercell" storm injured four people as it shattered car windscreens and tore apart roofs.

The north-western US state becomes the 20th to ban capital punishment following a court decision,

Andrew Brunson could soon be free, according to US media, after more than two years' detention.

The 40 luxury cars were flown in to chauffeur leaders at the Apec summit in the poor Pacific country.