US President-elect Joe Biden formally introduces his first choices for top cabinet positions.

Officers in Ohio smashed a window to pull out the driver before the vehicle became fully submerged.

The US president officially pardons "Corn" in the annual White House tradition.

Non-essential shops will reopen this weekend but bars and restaurants will stay closed into January.

Afghanistan is becoming a significant producer of the dangerously addictive and illegal drug methamphetamine, also known as crystal meth, a new report has warned.

The country is already the source of the majority of the world’s heroin. Now the European…

Pranksters posing as the climate activist told the Canadian PM to "drop your weapons, pick flowers".

The tech billionaire overtakes Bill Gates after Tesla shares soar on S&P acceptance

Families will be able to spend Christmas together after a plan for the whole of the UK was agreed.

Restrictions will be relaxed for just 5 days - from 23rd to 27th December.

Up to three households will be able to mix in each others homes - but not go to…

More than one in 5 secondary school pupils in England is out of school due to coronavirus - the highest number since September.Keeping children in the classr...

Zahara, a platinum-selling singer in South Africa, talks to the BBC about surviving a violent attack.

Maria and her children were driven from their home in Nagorno-Karabakh due to the ongoing conflict.

A 28-year-old woman is arrested after allegedly stabbing and trying to choke two other women.

President-Elect Biden says closing the border would be "just not right".

Tiny Bhutan is feeling the squeeze as its giant neighbours China and India vie for territory.

After being labelled "patient zero", a small-town physician in Canada was shunned.

Some ethnic Tigrayans complain of harassment and discrimination - an allegation the government denies.

Jordan Klepper has become known for his Trump supporter interviews on The Daily Show with Trevor Noah.

The railways in the UK, Australia and India getting power from the sun in different ways.

Built on coal, Colstrip has been under threat for years. It may not matter who sits in the Oval Office.

Work could begin early next year to prevent the vessel breaking apart and spilling crude.

The justice minister says it was a "misunderstanding" because of a "technical error" in field testing.