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The Chinese head of TikTok has defended plans to sell its US operations, describing a deal as the only way to prevent th...

Tropical Storm Isaias has brought tornadoes and heavy rains to the US east coast after making landfall in North Carolina...

German carmaker Audi has apologised for an advert showing a little girl eating a banana in front of a high-performance c...

At least 41 passengers and crew on a Norwegian cruise ship have tested positive for Covid-19, officials say. Hundreds mo...

The number of deaths from coronavirus in Iran is nearly triple what Iran's government claims, a BBC Persian service inve...

Spain's former king, Juan Carlos, will leave the country, the royal palace has announced, weeks after he was linked to a...

At least 29 people have been killed in an attack on a prison in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad which saw more than...

The US Navy Seals are investigating after footage emerged of military dogs attacking a "stand-in" wearing a Colin Kaeper...

The Hong Kong government has postponed September's parliamentary elections by a year, saying it is necessary amid a rise...

Emails between UK socialite Ghislaine Maxwell and the late US sex offender Jeffrey Epstein have been revealed in a trove...

For the first time in two decades, US talk show star Oprah Winfrey will not appear on the cover of her magazine, O. Inste...

Vietnam has recorded its first Covid-19 fatalities, in a devastating blow for a country proud of its zero deaths. The fir...

Spain has said outbreaks of new Covid-19 cases are isolated and under control after the UK abruptly ordered people comin...

Olivia de Havilland, one of the last remaining stars from the Golden Age of Hollywood, has died at the age of 104. De Hav...

Police in the US city of Seattle clashed with crowds marching in support of anti-racism protests, in one of the most ten...

A church volunteer has admitted starting a fire that devastated the cathedral in the French city of Nantes last week, hi...

Accusations from the US and UK that Russia recently tested anti-satellite weaponry in space are "distorted", Russia's de...

China has ordered the closure of the US consulate in the south-western city of Chengdu, in a tit-for-tat escalation betw...

A major DNA study has shed new light on the fate of millions of Africans who were traded as slaves to the Americas betwe...

Two statues of Christopher Columbus have been temporarily removed in Chicago. It comes a week after protesters attempted...