An underground explosion at a coal mine in the Komi region of northern Russia has killed at least nine miners, officials say. Rescuers are searching...
Malian troops are carrying out house-to-house searches following running battles with Islamist militants in the northern town of Gao on Sunday. There are fears some...
Malian troops and suspected Islamist militants are exchanging heavy gunfire on the streets of Gao in northern Mali. A BBC correspondent in the town says...
Chinese table-tennis player Zhuang Zedong, who had an instrumental role in the so-called ping-pong diplomacy that led to a thaw in US-China relations in the...
As Rio de Janeiro’s carnival gets under way, its oldest street parade has drawn an estimated 1.5m revellers. The samba-dancing crowd filled the streets of...
Nelson Mandela’s granddaughters are set to star in a reality television programme called Being Mandela. Swati Dlamini and Zaziwe Dlamini-Manaway say they have the former...
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