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...

After following the cubs nearly their whole lives, Gordon Buchanan may not seem as scary as the cubs first thought... so now is the perfect chance to steal his jacket!

Watch the awesome fight for survival as a grown male polar bear takes on a walrus colony at the edge of the Arctic circle.

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.

An over abundance of crown-of-thorns starfish and long-spined sea urchins can be damaging for coral reefs. Luckily, there is a renowned defender of the reefs ready to take them on...

Massive silverback gorilla blocks a road so his family can cross safely.

From underwater hunts to dancing whales, here are some of our all-time favourite ocean moments.

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...