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Michelle RobertsDigital health editor, BBC NewsBBCAnd while damaged and diseased organs may be replaceable by transplants, as we age our bodies become much less resilient or able to cope with physical stressors. "We begin to respond less...

Portugal is in mourning after at least 17 people died and some 20 more were injured when Lisbon's famous funicular cable railway derailed on Wednesday evening.A transport worker was among those killed, while a three-year-old German boy was reported...

Paul KirbyEurope digital editorAnadolu via Getty ImagesUK Defence Secretary John Healey has praised Trump, who he says "brought Putin into talks" and "not closed off any options".Ukraine is looking to the Coalition of the Willing to come up with...

An investigation has been launched after a grandfather mistakenly took home the wrong child from a daycare centre in Sydney, Australia.The man arrived to collect his grandchild from First Steps Learning Academy in the southern suburb of Bangor, on...

At least 32 people have died in Nigeria's northern Niger state after a boat sank in a river, an official has told the BBC.The reportedly overloaded boat, said to have been carrying about 100 passengers including women and children,...

It was just after 18:00 on Wednesday when a carriage on Lisbon's famous Gloria funicular came around the bend of a steep cobblestoned street, crashed into a building, and crumpled, an eyewitness said."It hit a building with brutal force...

Guyanese President Irfaan Ali has claimed a second five-year term in office, even as official final results from Monday's general election are yet to be published. Ali's People's Progressive Party (PPP) secured at least 242,000 votes in the poll,...

Sarah RainsfordBBC Southern and Eastern Europe CorrespondentBBCThe UK and its allies stand ready to support Ukraine before negotiations to end the war as well as to secure an eventual peace deal, the UK defence secretary says.On the eve of...

President Trump told CBS News on Wednesday that he remains committed to pursuing a peace agreement between Russia and Ukraine, despite mounting uncertainty over the prospect of face-to-face talks between Russian President Vladimir Putin and...

Hundreds of thousands of Australians forced to pay back welfare debts created by an illegal automated system have won the largest payout in the country's history.Known as "Robodebt", the scheme wrongly told welfare recipients they had been overpaid and...