Ukraine's president devotes nightly address to Crimea after explosions rock a Russian airbase there.

Former prisoners expose how and why rape is being used as a weapon inside Russian jails.

Divers, vets and police are involved in moving the ailing beluga whale from the Seine to the sea.

Robert Pope ran the almost 130-mile route from Galway to Dublin in just 23 hours and 41 minutes.

Ukraine's call for a widespread ban has also been supported by Estonia, Latvia and Finland.

The fast food giant's pandemic-related exit from Italy was celebrated by some social media users.

Prices in supermarkets could increase by 20-25% later this year, one leading exporter tells the BBC.

The US has warned Russia plans to maintain use of the satellite to spy on Ukrainian troop movements.

Russian weapons could be permanently degraded by tougher export controls in the West, a think tank says.

Four vessels leave Ukrainian ports via a safe maritime corridor set up under a deal with Russia.

The US says it has a "serious proposal" for Moscow that would secure the release of the basketball star.

Sleep is near impossible in Mykolaiv, the southern port under almost constant Russian attack.

Psychologists in Bucha are working to help children understand the Ukraine war.

As worldwide sales of the algae soar, the European Union wants to establish giant seaweed farms.

A BBC investigation links a little-known type of company to fraud, terrorism and money laundering.

The controversial Hungarian leader will be warmly received when he addresses US Republicans.

Sarah Rainsford meets the underground partisans resisting Russian occupation in southern Ukraine.

Serbs have been demonstrating in Kosovo, raising fears of renewed ethnic hostilities.

The Razoni is the first cargo ship to have left a Ukrainian port since February.

The government's campaign urges women worried about their bodies to go to the beach.

The BBC hears from some of those involved in a fatal crash caused by a lorry driver using his phone.

Many countries are heavily dependent on Russian energy and will need to find new suppliers.

It took a team six hours to hoist the animal from the River Seine, where it had become stranded.

Russia has played down the series of explosions at a military airfield in the area it annexed from Ukraine in 2014.

Stretches of River Doubs on the French-Swiss border are parched after severe droughts hit western Europe.

Meltwater flows from the glaciers, which may be set for their highest mass losses in 60 years.

António Guterres says inspectors must be given access to the site, after it was shelled at the weekend.