BBC News – World

Jennifer Ferguson says the #MeToo campaign convinced her to break her silence after nearly 24 years. […]

US agency posts a series of tweets explaining why a four-legged operative was relieved from duty […]

A third major attack in a week leaves at least 43 dead and nine wounded in the province of Kandahar. […]

The portrait is thought to be a minor work painted by the Spanish artist while living in the US. […]

Spain is to begin the process of imposing direct rule on Catalonia after a disputed independence vote. […]

The pop band respond to former member Kaya Jones, who claims the group was a "prostitution ring". […]

The Labour leader, who came second in September's polls, will head a centre-left coalition. […]

Hamas denounces the "blatant interference" in a Palestinian reconciliation deal signed last week. […]

Sons of the journalist killed in Malta say they are "not interested in justice without change". […]

One person has died and two are injured after a fire tears through Yangon's Kandawgyi Palace hotel. […]

A friend of murdered Maltese journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia on her death and corruption in Malta. […]

The US would "never have the same relationship with China, a non-democratic society," he added. […]

The follow-up to the late South African president's celebrated memoir is launched in Johannesburg. […]

The family of an Algerian journalist arrested on espionage charges is desperately trying to secure his release. […]

Shinzo Abe is banking on his rebounding popularity and his opposition in disarray. […]

British soldiers opened the first concentration camp in Russia in 1918, during World War One. To locals it was known as "Death Island". […]

Who are they, why are they fleeing from Myanmar and what is the international community doing? […]

Mahinda Celestin's eruption predictions are so good that locals panic if his family leaves town. […]

Getting views on Kim Jong-un proved quite a challenge for our correspondent at the Communist Party Congress. […]

The Kremlin welcomes her candidacy while commentators say it may split the opposition. […]

Refugees continue to pour into Bangladesh, adding to the world's fastest-growing humanitarian crisis. […]

When the Tragically Hip lead singer said he was suffering from terminal brain cancer, Canada grieved, because the band mined the nation's cultural mythology. […]

The US attorney general appears lost for words as he fields questions connected to the Russia probe. […]

The Canadian prime minister pays tribute to the Tragically Hip frontman as "one of the best of us". […]

The plaintiff says champagne was promised in the brochure; the airline calls the lawsuit "frivolous". […]

A Facebook page is helping to identify those killed or missing in Somalia's deadliest terror attack in a decade. […]

The incident took place on the bankrupt airline's final long-haul flight. […]

The global and personal responses to the anti-sexual harassment campaign. […]

A former India soldier returns to Sri Lanka 30 years after a peacekeeping mission ended in war. […]

Why is Africa's most populous country struggling to educate its children? […]

Spain's tourism sector may be booming, but hotel cleaners are getting as little as €700 a month. […]

The name "ugg" is a generic term in Australia, but its US definition is prompting a legal challenge. […]

The murder of Maltese journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia is seen as an attack on democracy. […]

IS has lost its 'capital' Raqqa, but it has taken the might of a global alliance to crush it. […]

Residents fed up with a two-hour drive to buy fuel decide to take matters into their own hands. […]

Grape the penguin became an online star after he "fell in love" with a cardboard cut-out in his enclosure. […]

Member of parliament and country's president both injured in bizarre household accidents. […]