Tag: BBC

The Vatican treasurer, Cardinal George Pell, has vehemently denied any wrongdoing after being charged with sex offences in his native ...

A global cyber-attack that affected companies around the world may have started via corrupted updates on a piece of accountancy ...

Thousands of Ethiopians are still stuck in Saudi Arabia after a 90-day amnesty for undocumented migrants expired on Tuesday without ...

Black Stars Head Coach Kwesi Appiah is expected to ring in the changes in Wednesday’s friendly game against Mexico in ...

Companies across the globe are reporting that they have been struck by a major ransomware cyber-attack. British advertising agency WPP ...

African Development Bank president Akinwumi Adesina has won the prestigious World Food Prize for his work to boost yields and ...

Authorities in north-eastern Nigeria have begun digging a 27km (17 mile) trench around the University of Maiduguri to prevent attacks ...

Google has been fined 2.42bn euros ($2.7bn; £2.1bn) by the European Commission after it ruled the company had abused its ...

Twelve-time Grand Slam winner Novak Djokovic says this year has been his toughest in tennis, as he prepares for his ...

Fifty-two migrants have been found dead in the deserts of central Niger, near Séguédine. A group of 75 set out ...

Google’s decision to stop scanning Gmail users’ emails in order to target them with personalised adverts has been given a ...

Pop star Ed Sheeran has headlined Glastonbury’s Pyramid Stage, just six years after his debut at one of the festival’s ...

Petra Kvitova capped her remarkable comeback from a career-threatening hand injury by winning the Aegon Classic. The Czech, playing in ...

Fighters of so-called Islamic State (IS) have launched counter-attacks as they come under growing pressure from Iraqi forces in Mosul. ...

Police in the Turkish city of Istanbul have thwarted attempts by organisers to hold a banned Gay Pride march. The ...

The UK Parliament has been hit by a cyber attack, officials at Westminster say. The “sustained” hack began on Friday ...

Sport betting company SportPesa has announced it will end sponsorship of the Kenyan Premier League (KPL) after the government imposed ...

An update to Snapchat that shows publicly posted images on a searchable map has raised safety concerns among parents. Snap ...

Tanzania’s President John Magufuli has been condemned for comments that girls who give birth should not be allowed to return ...

More than 700 flats in tower blocks on an estate in the Swiss Cottage area of north-west London have been ...