Image copyright AFP Image caption It is likely to be several more years before Russia’s Olympians are allowed to compete again under their national flag Russia has become the master

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption The woman says she felt a stinging sensation on her leg during the flight A woman has been stung by a scorpion while travelling

Image copyright Javad Zarif Twitter Image caption Massoud Soleimani, right, with Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif after his release A Chinese-American researcher convicted of spying in Iran has been freed

Image copyright EPA Image caption The Camp Fire killed scores of people and caused billions of dollars of damage Californian utility giant Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) has agreed a

Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption‘Sydney’s mega fire is getting out of control’ A “mega blaze” raging across a 60km (37 mile) front north-west of Sydney cannot

Image copyright AFP Image caption Elodie Kulik’s father Jacky had fought to bring her killers to justice A high-profile trial in France concerning the abduction, rape and killing of a

Image copyright Reuters Image caption The US naval air base in Pensacola, Florida A gunman has opened fire in a classroom building at a US naval base in Pensacola, Florida,

Image copyright AFP Image caption Germany is set to donate 60m euros (£51m; $66m) to the foundation that preserves Auschwitz as a memorial German Chancellor Angela Merkel has been visiting

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption The usually busy Gare du Nord railway station in Paris seen empty on Thursday A strike over planned pension reforms that paralysed France on

Image copyright Reuters Image caption Thousands protested outside a police station in Hyderabad after the rape case Indian police have shot dead four men suspected of raping and killing a