Russia is sending thousands more troops to Belarus. Is the country going to join the war in Ukraine?

A Dutch media report says China is running an undeclared police operation to pressure dissidents.

Relations between France and Germany are strained as the two countries pull in different directions.

The letter, calling for the US to negotiate directly with Russia, provoked backlash within the party.

The man, who posed as a Brazilian academic, was believed to be researching "threats" to Arctic Norway.

Giorgia Meloni uses her speech to MPs to return to a familiar theme in Italian politics.

The US basketball star argues her nine-year sentence is disproportionate but the sentence is upheld.

The country's energy sector is struggling to cope after Russian attacks, a top official says.

A BBC investigation finds evidence that Russian forces deliberately destroyed a pipeline to Mykolaiv.

Russia is telling the United Nation that Ukraine plans to use a "dirty bomb" in its own territory.

The head of Russia's foreign intelligence service falsely accuses the West of nuclear war threats.

Ukraine had suggested some Russian units were leaving Kherson, a city that fell early in the war.

As Ukraine retakes territory, villagers tell the BBC about their precarious life under Russian rule.

The alleged rape and murder of 12-year-old Lola by an illegal migrant has inflamed French politics.

It's notoriously hard to get new laws passed in the US - could the Swiss teach the US how?

In the middle of an energy crisis, giant ships full of liquefied natural gas are waiting off Europe's coast.

Child migrant Michael Goodwin never knew his mother - a German Jew - spent her life looking for him.

Giorgia Meloni's promises to crack down on immigration concerns the African community living in Sicily.

The conflict has driven them closer together in a way which could impact the world beyond Ukraine.

With high energy prices and disrupted gas supplies, European nations consider more nuclear power plants.

Mutations that saved lives from the plague are causing auto-immune diseases today.

In April 1945, the BBC’s Richard Dimbleby was the first reporter to enter the liberated Belsen concentration camp. 

Dr Oksana Leontieva was going to work after leaving her son at nursery when she was killed in Kyiv.

The commander of Russian forces in Ukraine appears to admit difficulties in occupied regions.

The family of Leonid Yevseyev, a Ukrainian prisoner of war, still hope for his safe return.

This young man calls the Ukraine invasion a 'war against our own people'.