The arrest of a British couple in Afghanistan was over a "misunderstanding", the Taliban has said.

An American woman suspected of throwing her newborn out of a hotel window in Paris, killing the baby, has been detained in the French capital.

A mountain resembling the head of a puppy has become a tourist destination along an ancient Chinese river.

An unknown disease has killed more than 50 people in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), according to doctors.

A Colombian man has been caught trying to smuggle £8,000 worth of cocaine under a wig.

Galatasaray have accused Fenerbahce head coach Jose Mourinho of making "racist statements" against Turkish people and say they intend to launch criminal proceedings against him.

Harun is sitting hunched on a bed with a sheet over his head.

Did you know there's a critical product - one without which we'd all be dead - which Europe is actually importing more of from Russia now than before the invasion of Ukraine?

Emmanuel Macron has said a peace deal with Russia "must not mean a surrender of Ukraine" - as Donald Trump claimed Vladimir Putin's forces "want to end this war".

A former surgeon who is alleged to have raped and sexually abused 299 victims - most of them children who were his patients - told the opening of his trial in France he had committed "despicable acts".

A Scottish businessman who disappeared in Kenya eight days ago has been found dead.

Insults hurled by Donald Trump at Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy are "ghastly to hear" and "complete untruths", former British prime minister Boris Johnson has said.

The US joined Russia to vote against a UN resolution on the Ukraine war - and abstained from voting on one it drafted after amendments proposed by European countries were added.

Pope Francis's health has shown a "slight improvement" but he remains in a critical condition, the Vatican has said.

In a strictly military sense, the war in Ukraine is not going so badly for Kyiv. 

China's military has started live-fire exercises in the Gulf of Tonkin - after Vietnam published a map defining what it considers its territory in the body of water between the two countries.

Friedrich Merz, who is set to become the new German chancellor, has vowed to "create unity" in Europe as it adjusts to the new Trump administration and Russia's war on Ukraine.

Former Arsenal and Real Madrid footballer Mesut Ozil has transitioned into politics after joining Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan's party.

An American Airlines flight travelling from New York to New Delhi was diverted midair due to a "bomb threat".

An explosion has taken place after plastic bottles were thrown into the garden of the Russian consulate in France.