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.

When Leonid Pliats and his boss were shot in the back by Russian soldiers, the killing was captured on CCTV cameras in clear and terrible detail. The footage, which was obtained by the BBC, is now being investigated by Ukrainian prosecutors as a suspecte...

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

Taxi driver and father of four, Ivan Skyba, was one of a group of Ukrainian men defending their suburban street near Kyiv at the start of the war. He narrowly avoided death after being captured with his comrades by Russian soldiers as they advanced on Uk...

Amid reports of low morale and high casualty numbers in Ukraine's Donbas, BBC Newsnight revisits Russia's 331st Guards Parachute Regiment, considered "the best of the best." The Donbas has become a battle of attrition with high casualties on both sides,...

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...

Amid reports of low morale and high casualty numbers in Ukraine's Donbas, BBC Newsnight revisits Russia's 331st Guards Parachute Regiment, considered "the best of the best." In April, we confirmed 39 soldiers had been killed but now BBC Newsnight estimate...

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

Thousands of foreign fighters have joined Ukrainian armed forces since Russia invaded the country in February. BBC correspondent Olga Malchevska gained access to a secret training camp, the International Legion of Territorial Defence of Ukraine, for those...

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