BBC World Service’s global news programme Newsday will establish a team in Kenya, co-presenting from London and Nairobi, ...

Ukraine talks in Geneva, President Zelensky says: "Putin wants legal recognition to what he has stolen...that's the main ...

Satellite images reviewed by BBC Verify show Israel has destroyed more than 1,500 buildings in areas of Gaza that have ...

English regional mayors will be given the power to charge tourists a tax for staying overnight in their towns and cities, ...

"It's repulsive to have been born a woman. If I were a man, they might have beaten me and walked away - they wouldn't have ...

The mayor of Liverpool City Region has welcomed a government decision to allow regional mayors to introduce a tourist tax on ...

The Taliban authorities in Afghanistan ordered female patients, caretakers and staff to wear a burka – a full Islamic veil - ...

A city's effort to stamp out smoking has made "significant progress" after recording its lowest-ever smoking rate, a council ...

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President Trump says the original peace plan has been "fine-tuned", and that he will send his envoy Steve Witkoff to Moscow.

Nigeria fine new Museum of West African Art (Mowaa) don dey di centre of one political wahala for Edo State di same week wey ...

Prof Anton Muscatelli's report calls for a range of reforms to planning, business rates and skills in Scotland.