2 It's a year to the day since the Taliban entered Kabul unchallenged and took control of Afghanistan, transforming the lives of millions of people.Taliban fighters have been parading in the streets as a national holiday has been declared to mark the ann...

Finland's Prime Minister Sanna Marin has said she has taken a drug test, after new footage emerged showing the leader dancing with a Finnish popstar.Marin, 36, came under fire this week after a leaked video showed her partying, with some politicians sayin...

A series of explosions have been reported at two Russian military installations, both inside territory that Russia has seized from Ukraine and inside Russia ...

he head of UN Antonio Guterres is to meet Ukraine’s President and other world leaders to discuss finding a political solution to end the war. It comes as Ukraine's armed forces consider launching a counter-offensive in the south. A senior military officer...

One year after the Taliban took control of Afghanistan, most girls secondary schools remain closed, poverty and malnutrition levels are rising. But the end of the Taliban insurgency also means the war-ravaged country is now more peaceful than it has been...

Staff at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine are holding drills in case of an incident some feel could be worse than Chernobyl. The site in southeastern Ukraine is home to Europe's biggest nuclear plant and has been occupied by Russian forces...

A week after an apparent Ukrainian attack on a Russian military base in occupied Crimea, an arms store at another military facility has been hit by a series of explosions.Blaming "sabotage", Russian officials said a fire triggered the blasts in the Dzhank...

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...

Rock band Antytila are one of Ukraine’s most popular acts and attracted a whole new fanbase when they posted a TikTok video while clad in combat gear in Kyiv. Members of the band signed up to be army medics on the frontline when Russia invaded nearly six...

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...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has admitted that Russian forces are making progress in the contested Donbas region, describing some of the fighting as “hell”. Both sides appear to be gearing up for an escalation in fighting in the south, with Ukra...

The Donbas has become a battle of attrition with high casualties on both sides, BBC Newsnight charts the impact of the war on the Russian side from the 331st regiment's home in Kostroma to the evolution of symbols painted on their tanks. In April, we con...