Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev has called on Russia to accept blame for a plane crash on Christmas Day that killed 38 people. The plane is thought to have come under fire from…

Holding new elections in Syria could take up to four years, rebel leader Ahmed al-Sharaa has said in a broadcast interview. This is the first time he has given a timeline for…

At the time, he was selling special programming to hotels through his Teleguide service, while cable television was taking off in rural areas. In 1964 Dolan made a deal with New York…

More than 170 people have died after a plane crashed as it was landing in South Korea on Sunday morning. The Jeju Air plane came off the runway before colliding with a…

All passengers and most of the crew on board a Jeju Air flight have died after the plane crash-landed at an airport in South Korea on Sunday. A total of 179 of…

A 40-year-old man has died after being attacked by a shark on the edge of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, local police said. Luke Walford, a youth pastor, had been spearfishing with his…

Australian actor and comedian Rebel Wilson has legally married Ramona Agruma in Sydney, the star has announced on social media. The couple had a wedding ceremony in Sardinia in September but have…

On the night of 6 December, Mohammed el-Nadaf, a soldier in the Syrian army, was at his position in Homs. As rebels led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) pushed into the city,…

I will never forget New Year’s Eve 1999. I was working as a producer in the BBC’s Moscow bureau. Suddenly there was breaking news: Russia’s President Boris Yeltsin had stepped down. His…

Thousands of Georgian protesters have formed a human chain in the capital, Tbilisi, ahead of a political showdown as the new president prepares to be sworn in. The inauguration of a new…