More and more artists are openly singing about the gay experience after years of warbling love songs aimed at the opposite sex.

Khalid Taalo Kheder al-Ali has spent much of the last four years buying back members of his family who were were captured by IS.

For the first time in at least 100 years, the US Cabinet has a Bible Study group. What do they learn?

In 1972, Keith Murdoch's career ended in shame. His life afterwards was one mystery after another.

An exaggerated (and outdated) trend has been used to attack a group of young gun control activists online.

The battle for influence between the rival powers in the Gulf crisis could tear apart Somalia and its neighbours in the Horn of Africa, writes the BBC's Mary Harper.

Doctors said Shaurya would not be able to live a normal life. He's now proving them wrong.

Japanese police arrest a 73-year-old man who allegedly kept his son in a wooden cage.

Britain's James DeGale regained his IBF super-middleweight title after he beat Caleb Truax on a unanimous points decision.

Scotland defeat Australia 19-14 in a thrilling lawn bowls men's triple final to take the gold medal.

England's Nick Miller and Wales' Olivia Breen secure Commonwealth golds on the opening day of athletics at Gold Coast 2018.

Northern Ireland's Rhys McClenaghan beats England's Max Whitlock to win his country's first medal of the 2018 Commonwealth Games on the pommel horse.

Adam Keenan's hammer throw takes out a distance marker and a microphone, causing one of the commentators to joke they "call that the jackpot".

England basketball players Jamell Anderson and Georgia Jones get engaged on court at the Commonwealth Games.

The Eurosceptic leader is seeking a third term but the opposition hope high turnout will favour them.

Brazil's former president forced his way through crowds of supporters to surrender to the authorities.

Authorities say they are almost certain the suspect - a German citizen - had no Islamist connections.

Scotland's Duncan Scott and England's Siobhan-Marie O'Connor both won Commonwealth Games gold medals in the pool.

Northern Ireland claim their first Commonwealth Games medal with Rhys McClenaghan's gold as Scotland's Duncan Scott beats Chad le Clos in the pool.

Northern Ireland's Rhys McClenaghan upsets the odds to beat English favourite Max Whitlock in the pommel horse final, claiming his country's first gold medal at the 2018 Commonwealth Games.

The former UFC champion will compete in her first ever WWE match in front of around 80,000 people.