While Russia's president annexes large areas of Ukraine, the truth on the ground looks very different.
In an effort to ward off potentially sinister rituals, the Catalonian town of Terrassa hopes to keep its black cats safe during the occult-themed holiday....
For locals, the promise of more tourism is a welcome opportunity - but they are also wary....
Zelensky does not share Trump's apparent confidence that Russia's Putin is acting in good faith....
Following the meeting, Trump calls for Kyiv and Moscow to "stop where they are" and end the war....
You have to "force Russia to come to the negotiating table" and that is the deal the US leader is trying to make," Alexander Stubb said....
Temperatures have surged across a large area of the north Pacific - and scientists don't know exactly why....
If Putin does go to Budapest to meet Trump in the next two weeks, he would need to clear a few hurdles first....
It comes after the UK said it had pushed back a decision on the controversial site for the second time....
The BBC's Jonathan Beale explains what impact the weapons might have if the US decides to send them to Ukraine....
Ukraine's leader will meet Trump in Washington a day after the US president agreed to face-to-face talks with his Russian counterpart....
The phone conversation, held while Zelensky was flying to Washington, stole a march on his big moment....
It is part of a new drive for the 27-member European Union to be ready for conflict by 2030....
The Indian government says it is "not aware" of a call in which the US president claimed India's leader made the commitment....
Sir Ken McCallum says MI5 have disrupted Chinese activity of national security concern in the past week....
Australia's rainforests are the first in the world to make the "concerning" switch, say scientists....
The US president says the move is "a big stop", but there has been no confirmation so far from Delhi....
The destruction and hunger that Sudan's war has brought leaves parents with some impossible choices....
In the last two months, Russia has hugely upped its attacks on Ukraine's trains and rail network....
Some are only now coming forward with accounts of loved ones who disappeared during the civil war and are presumed dead....
This will be the fourth consecutive winter of outages since Russia launched its full-scale invasion in February 2022....
BBC Verify investigates the damage done by two years of war, which could take $70bn and decades to repair....
The government has also targeted a major Indian energy company and Chinese oil terminals in new sanctions....
The impact from the Rosebank oil field is estimated at nearly 250 million tonnes of planet warming CO2....
The Climate Change Committee said the UK should make climate change adaptions beyond the Paris Agreement....
The dead have been burned beyond recognition and officials have warned that the toll could rise....
Israel has warned it will restrict aid convoys into Gaza because of delays returning the remaining bodies....
Moscow denies one of its vessels had to surface in the English Channel because of technical issues....
England boss Thomas Tuchel says there are "no limits" to Marcus Rashford's potential, but warns the Barcelona forward not to end his career thinking "what could have been"....
A major hostage and prisoner exchange marks a significant step towards ending two years of war in Gaza....
