India and Pakistan have been urged by America's top diplomat to work together to "de-escalate" rising tensions over Kashmir.

A car-sized piece of Soviet rocket is expected to come crashing back down to Earth in the coming days, after 53 years in orbit. 

A mother accused of murdering her estranged husband's parents and aunt by feeding them poisonous mushrooms lured them to the meal by faking a cancer diagnosis, prosecutors claim.

On the streets of Ho Chi Minh City, it's a sea of red.

A photograph of nine-year-old Kim Phuc Phan Thi, taken during the Vietnam War, became infamous for its horrific depiction of the conflict.

A 16-year-old has been detained on suspicion of shooting and killing three people in Sweden, prosecutors have said.

Pakistan has said it has "credible intelligence" India intends to launch military action, as tensions between the two countries continue to escalate. 

The biggest city in the Sahel has been ransacked and left in ruins.

The biggest city in the Sahel has been ransacked and left in ruins.

Three people have been killed after a shooting in Sweden.

An Israeli minister has been called a "war criminal" in an extraordinary row with protesters inside the US Capitol.

Two parents and their adult son are said to have died from carbon monoxide poisoning after using a generator during the blackout that hit Spain and Portugal this week, according to local reports.

A paramedic in Gaza who was detained for more than five weeks following an Israeli attack that killed 15 aid workers has been released, the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) said.

A child has damaged a huge painting thought to be worth tens of millions of pounds in the Netherlands.

The trial has begun for an Australian woman accused of murdering her ex-husband's parents and an aunt by serving them a beef wellington laced with poisonous mushrooms.

A Chinese student who was airlifted from Japan's Mount Fuji last week had to be saved a second time just four days later, local authorities have said.

Mark Carney is set to be elected as prime minister of Canada after his ruling Liberal Party were projected to win the election.

Police had contact with a man suspected of being behind a vehicle attack in Vancouver that killed 11 people on the day before the ramming.

Mark Carney's Liberal Party has won the election in Canada, according to Canadian broadcasters

Power supplies have been returning in Spain and Portugal after large parts, including the capitals Madrid and Lisbon, were hit by a huge outage on Monday.

The head of Israel's domestic intelligence service has said he will resign in June – defusing an escalating row with Benjamin Netanyahu.

The number of people killed in an explosion at Iran's biggest container port has risen to 65, with over 1,200 injured, according to state media.

We rarely think about how essential and reliable electricity grids are until they fail.

An "exceptional and extraordinary" power outage has brought large parts of Portugal and Spain to a standstill. 

Work to prepare the Sistine Chapel for the gathering of the cardinals to elect a new pope has begun.