Provisional figures indicate that 2020 will be one of the hottest in a record dating back to 1850.

An apparent Taylor Swift fan defaced the artist pages for Lana Del Ray and Dua Lipa, among others.

Hong Kong democracy activists Joshua Wong, Agnes Chow and Ivan Lam have been sentenced to jail for their involvement in mass protests last year.

The trio had been found guilty of unlawful assembly.

The pro-democracy movement has been stifled since Beijing…

Twenty ticketholders win in South Africa after the unusual sequence, sparking claims of fraud.

The campaign group says Egypt executed at least 57 people in October and November alone.

BEC or Business Email Compromise hacking is one of the most common types of cyber-attack, which the FBI says costs more than £6 billion a year - and experts say Nigeria is its epicentre.

Cyber reporter Joe Tidy speaks with one BEC hacker in Nigeria to find…

The overpass aims to help animals cross between two mountains while avoiding highway traffic.

The star has allowed her actor friend Ryan Reynolds to use a new version of the track in an advert.

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has praised the scientists behind the Pfizer/BioNTech coronavirus vaccine, after the country became the first in the world to approve its use.

“The scientists have done it," he said in a televised press conference, adding…

Sir David Attenborough discusses the climate crisis with the UN Secretary-General António Guterres.

The robotic Chang'e-5 probe starts work to gather lunar samples it can send to Earth for study.

AWS Panorama adds a range of employee monitoring powers to existing workplace camera systems.

One-month old Molly Gibson has broken the record set by her own sister, Emma, now three years old.

Tributes are paid to the "trailblazer" and WWE Hall of Fame member whose career spanned six decades.

A rift between Australia and China has deepened after a faked image of an Australian soldier holding a knife to the neck of an Afghan child was posted on a Chinese government Twitter account.

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison said Beijing should be…

The United Kingdom has become the first country in the world to approve the coronavirus vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech.

The vaccination programme will start shortly, with the over-80s, NHS workers, and staff in care homes at the front of the queue.…

He lost the election, but did better than most experts were predicting. How does this keep happening?

The former president of France, who has died aged 94, was a force for greater European integration.

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People should not get "carried away with over optimism" after the UK approved its first…

Australian teenager Jess Collins says she wants to draw attention to how many mangoes are left to rot.

Around the world, previously happy couples are splitting up and divorcing due to the stress of the pandemic.