Up to 10,000 Japanese fans will be permitted at Tokyo 2020 Olympic venues, despite warnings from health bosses. Overseas spectators…
New Zealand weightlifter Laurel Hubbard has become the first transgender athlete picked to compete at an Olympics. Officials have selected…
Ebrahim Raisi, the hardline former head of the country’s judiciary, has won Iran’s presidential election as expected, with a landslide…
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Brazil has now recorded more than half a million coronavirus deaths, making it only the second country, after the US,…
As the UK deals with a third wave of coronavirus infections, the BBC's Ros Atkins traces the story of the…
A 57m (187ft) Buddhist statue dedicated to the Goddess of Mercy, Kannon, in central Japan has been draped with a…
Killer whales may socialise with each other based on age and gender, with younger whales and females more sociable than…
An ethnic armed group in Myanmar has been accused by state media of killing twenty-five construction workers in the east…
Is the Lib Dem win in Chesham and Amersham just one brick tumbling, or the start of a political realignment?…