Andrei Ostapovich quit his job as a Belarusian police officer, was detained in Russia, then escaped to Poland.

An eerie quiet has descended on the White House as attempts to challenge the election result founder.

Social media is full of coronavirus vaccine information - but how can you tell which is reliable?

Opposition Conservatives say without a plan for vaccine rollout, there can be no economic recovery.

The man, 62, was rescued by a passing container ship, more than 80 miles off the Florida coast.

The feminists who were the backbone of the EndSars protests, which threaten Nigeria's status quo.

Beijing has introduced tough new laws which restrict the export of "controlled items".

Rights group Amnesty has accused the tech giants of increasingly blocking criticism and dissent.

Dr Atlas clashed with other scientists after questioning the need for masks and other measures.

The unique bridge is constructed over a busy highway to protect animals from being run over.

Criciúma was the "target of a major assault" with shots fired out across town, its mayor says.

Moves by China, along with the election of Joe Biden, make temperature targets more achievable.

A powerful telescope in Australia gives a glimpse of three million galaxies in record time.

A special force is probing the gruesome killing of four Christians in a remote Indonesian village.

The retort comes after Canberra demands an apology over a fake image of a soldier killing a child.

Thai authorities may be worried by the protests, but the country's food vendors smell opportunity.

France's Kevin Escoffier is "safe and sound" after his rescue by fellow Vendee Globe round-the-world competitor Jean Le Cam off the Cape of Good Hope.

The statue had become a landmark for hikers in Bavaria, but no-one really knew how it came to be there.

Pablo Matera is stripped of the Argentina captaincy and suspended along with two team-mates for "discriminatory and xenophobic" comments in historical social media posts.

Italian prosecutors believe Egyptian security agents killed PhD student Giulio Regeni in 2016.

In the 1960s, Farrukh Dhondy and Leila Hassan Howe became activists in Britain's Black Power movement.

With racial tensions running high, many black Britons looked to American movements for inspiration.

They spoke to the BBC’s Amanda Kirton about how it…