Paul Ryan came under fire for lauding tax changes that left a school worker $1.50 a week better off.

A community football club in India is using sport to keep young people away from drugs.

The couple, killed in a suspected double homicide, left an indelible mark on Canada.

Tarell Alvin McCraney on his five-star play, envelopegate and why he rates Daniel Kaluuya.

China has millions of Catholics - but most worship in "secret" underground congregations.

Each week, we publish a gallery of readers' pictures on a set theme. This week it is "fantastic voyage".

No merchandise, booing & chucking beer - how Minneapolis is giving the Philadelphia Eagles a frosty welcome ahead of Super Bowl LII meeting with the New England Patriots.

Being labelled 'ugly' brought curious visitors to the Belgian city of Charleroi.

There are about 6,500 sinkholes in the area which caused devastation in their wake.

Scientists and health experts take on the rise of the celebrity health-guru culture.

Spurred on by Amazon, the big supermarkets are racing to deliver our shopping the same day we order it.

Okinawan is an endangered language but in Brazil it is thriving and students come here to study it.

Why some feminists and trans activists are clashing over the way people legally change gender.

Orlando police say they found him with a knife and concert tickets near where the singer was appearing.

The undocumented Central Americans were being trafficked to the US in dangerous conditions.

Head coach Gregor Townsend is left stunned by Scotland's woeful showing in the opening Six Nations defeat to Wales.

Wales deliver a hammer blow to the Scots' Six Nations ambitions and have everyone re-evaluating their Six Nations title challenge.

Anthony Watson and Sam Simmonds both score twice as defending champions England open their 2018 Six Nations account with a big win in Rome.

The joint North and South Korean women's ice hockey team loses 3-1 to Sweden in their first match.

China joins Russia in condemning a newly-announced US policy to develop smaller atomic bombs.

MPs describe rumoured cuts as "militarily illiterate" and warn the Treasury "has got to cough up".