Dignitaries, including political leaders and members of royal families, gathered alongside thousands of mourners as Pope Francis was laid to rest in St Peter’s Square. Subsequently, massive crowds filled the…
Video captured by a motorist and authenticated by the BBC depicts the moment a powerful explosion struck Shahid Rajaee port on Saturday morning, near the southern Iranian city of Bandar…
A young female South African doctor has sparked a nationwide conversation about a form of domestic abuse often shrouded in silence – financial abuse. In a series of viral videos…
The Conclave – the process where the Cardinals gather to vote for the next Pope – is often highly unpredictable. But this time it’s harder than ever before to guess…
Images of Pope Francis’s tomb at the Santa Maria Maggiore church in Rome have been released. A single white rose was pictured lying on the stone tomb that bears the…
Interim guidance on single-sex spaces is “ill-considered and impractical” and should be withdrawn, the Green Party has said. The guidance, issued by the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), followed…
Drag star Bianca Castro-Arabejo, who performed as Jiggly Caliente, has died aged 44, her family has said. The performer, who found fame on the fourth season of RuPaul’s Drag Race,…
Qatar’s prime minister says there has been “a bit of progress” in efforts to broker a new ceasefire in Gaza between Israel and Hamas, but that there was still no…
Israel carried out an air strike on Beirut’s southern suburbs on Sunday, after ordering an evacuation of a building that it said was being used by the Iranian-backed group Hezbollah.…
Organisers of Vancouver’s annual Lapu Lapu festival in Canada, where a car ramming attack killed 11 people on Saturday, have said they are “heartbroken” and “collectively shattered”. An exhausted and…