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Poland's Andrzej Bargiel has become the first climber to ski down the world's highest mountain without supplemental oxygen, his team and expedition organizer said Thursday.Bargiel glided down Mount Everest's snowy slopes after reaching the summit...

An Australian film that was digitally altered to change a same-sex couple to a heterosexual one has drawn backlash from moviegoers in China.Together, a horror film starring Dave Franco and Alison Brie, was shown in selected Chinese cinemas in...

A number of incursions by unidentified drones across Denmark that caused the temporary shutdown of two airports and affected military installations were part of a "hybrid attack," the country's defense minister said Thursday. Police in...

Paris — A Paris court on Thursday sentenced former French President Nicolas Sarkozy to five years in prison after finding him guilty of criminal conspiracy in an alleged scheme to finance his 2007 campaign with funds from...

Israel has closed the only crossing between the Israeli-occupied West Bank and neighbouring Jordan, stopping more than two million Palestinians from accessing the outside world.The Israeli airports authority, which oversees the Allenby Bridge crossing, said it would be closed...

The French navy has seized nearly 10 tonnes of cocaine, worth $610m (£540m) off the coast of West Africa, French authorities have said.Two French naval vessels operating as part of Operation Corymbe intercepted the enormous cocaine haul from an...

Peter GillibrandBBC NewsbeatSegaVideo game companies have been leaning on remakes and remasters of older titles in recent years. The trend had sparked hope among die-hard Sega fans that remakes of the Sonic Adventure series - among the character's first...

Pokémon has said it did not give permission for the use of its theme song and other footage to be used in an ICE deportation raid video posted by the US government."We are aware of a recent video posted...

Gavin Butler,Muhamad IrhamBBC Indonesia, Jakarta andYuli SaputraBBC Indonesia, West JavaYuli SaputraAcross the world, programmes offering free meals to students have proved to be effective in improving health, academic performance and attendance.But Indonesia's $28bn (£21bn) version - shaping up to...