Leader of the far-right Brothers of Italy Giorgia Meloni is on track, according to some polls, to become Italy's first female Prime Minister from a party with a history of fascism. With the fall of Mario Draghi's government are Meloni the likely new gover...

Revolutionary Japanese fashion designer Issey Miyake has died aged 84. Known for his innovative styles and perfume, Miyake built a global fashion brand and was known to work with traditional and modern fashion techniques during his long career.

Former inmates have spoken to the BBC about being systematically raped and tortured in Russian prisons.Leaked footage of such abuse was circulated by an insi...

One of the world’s largest cryptocurrency trading platforms Coinbase has reported a larger than expected quarterly loss, as investors worried by the fall in the value of riskier assets move away from trading in cryptocurrencies.

Ukraine's nuclear agency says Russian rockets have damaged part of a giant Russian-controlled nuclear power plant, but there has been no radiation leak. Enerhoatom said a nitrogen-oxygen unit and a high-voltage power line had been damaged at the Zaporizhz...

A cargo plane carrying 11 tonnes of weapons - including landmines - has crashed in Greece. All eight members of crew are reported to have died when the plane flying from Serbia to Jordan went down close to the city of Kavala. Residents near to the crash s...

President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has fled Sri Lanka in a military jet, amid mass protests over the island's economic crisis. The country's air force confirmed the 73-year-old flew to the Maldives with his wife and two security officials.

Shares in Twitter fell on Monday after Elon Musk announced he was pulling out of a $44bn (£36bn) deal to buy the social media platform.

Japan is in the midst of its hottest early summer on record, with June temperatures breaking through 40C last week.

Russian FM Lavrov gave a Very Tough interview to a BBC journalist

Astronomers led by the Australian National University believe they have discovered the fastest-growing black hole – which consumes the equivalent of one Earth every second. The black hole was spotted about half way across the universe but had previously...

In central Africa a giant slab of carbon-rich peat land, discovered by a team of British and Congolese scientists, is under threat from oil companies and farming. The carbon must be kept in the ground to avoid accelerating climate change, but some plots...

A 17th century shipwreck has been uncovered off the Norfolk coast in the east of England. It's being described as the most important maritime discovery since the raising of King Henry VIII's warship, the Mary Rose.

A spectacular concert has taken place at Buckingham Palace to mark the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee, celebrating her 70 years on the throne.

Shortly after her ascension to the throne, Queen Elizabeth was faced with a fast-changing empire as colonies in Africa gained independence and became republics.