A nudist in Berlin got too close to nature for comfort when a wild boar snatched his plastic bag – which had his laptop inside. The naked man gave chase to the boar and her two piglets... Read more

A man in eastern China has been acquitted of murder and freed after spending 27 years in prison. Zhang Yuhuan maintained he was tortured by police and forced to confess to the murder of two... Read more

A number of Beirut port officials are being placed under house arrest pending an investigation into Tuesday’s huge explosion, Lebanon’s government says. The blast killed at least... Read more

Rescue workers in Lebanon are searching for more than a hundred people who are missing after a huge explosion devastated the port area of the capital Beirut on Tuesday. The blast killed at l... Read more

Indian PM Narendra Modi has laid the foundation stone for a Hindu temple in the northern city of Ayodhya. Hindu mobs demolished a medieval mosque there in 1992, saying it was built on the ru... Read more

German carmaker Audi has apologised for an ad showing a little girl eating a banana in front of a high-performance car, which drew a torrent of criticism on Twitter. “We hear you and l... Read more

Nobel Peace Prize winner and former SDLP leader John Hume has died aged 83. He died in the early hours of Monday at Owen Mor nursing home in Londonderry. One of the highest-profile politicia... Read more

The Islamic State (IS) group has said it was behind a high-profile attack on a central prison in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad that saw hundreds of prisoners try to flee. The attack b... Read more

The number of deaths from coronavirus in Iran is nearly triple what Iran’s government claims, a BBC Persian service investigation has found. The government’s own records appear t... Read more

Vietnam has recorded its first Covid-19 fatality, in a devastating blow for a country proud of its zero deaths. The 70-year-old man was from the central city of Hoi An, state media said on F... Read more

One US marine has died and eight others are missing after an amphibious assault vehicle (AAV) accident off the coast of southern California. Two personnel were also injured in the accident o... Read more

Emails between UK socialite Ghislaine Maxwell and the late US sex offender Jeffrey Epstein have been revealed in a trove of unsealed court documents. Epstein tells Ms Maxwell she has done... Read more

The length of time people with coronavirus symptoms will have to self-isolate for is expected to be increased from seven to 10 days in England. It comes as ministers try to avoid a resurgenc... Read more