A selection of the best photos from the African continent and beyond.

Consumers face a steep rise in energy bills as governments try to fund the move to renewable energy.

The indictment says Brian Laundrie used a debit card that did not belong to him after her death.

Photographer Anthony Dawton has been documenting London's homeless population during the pandemic.

The BBC finds stranded migrants facing near-zero temperatures amid a row between Poland and Belarus.

One wildly inaccurate claim suggests Germany does not actually exist.

Revelations about spyware have spurred interest in more secure phones and software.

The workers in Singapore are enduring one of the longest Covid confinement periods in the world.

The actor, 34, is carried off a golf course after collapsing during a celebrity match in the US.

The pop star is joining Abba's live band next year, after crowd-funding her sparkling new album.

The 'Quad' - India, Australia, Japan and the US - are meeting for the first time as a group.

The committee investigating the 6 January riot has issued the first subpoenas of the Trump team.

Keen public interest in the Gabby Petito case has renewed the urgency of other missing person cases.

The 15-year-old girl in Mumbai was alleged gang-raped for around nine months.

Spain accuses the former president of the Catalonia region of sedition, and wants him extradited.

Prosecutors are seeking a murder conviction after an officer allegedly killed a teenager in Colombia.

Major brand JNBY has since pulled the item, which also features images of the Grim Reaper.

Fiterson's hellish seven-year journey through 11 countries explains migrants' desperation at US border.

The government is set to make it illegal for hospitality bosses to withhold tips from their workers.

The court said the model suffered a huge loss due to the wrong haircut.

Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin says there were issues with the jury at his trial.