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NurPhoto via Getty ImagesJack likes a drink and a standard night out will probably involve several pints at his local."If you have three pints, that is easy, easy going," the 29-year-old says. "Probably a heavy night, casually, would be...

Mayeni JonesandKyla Herrmannsen,Minna, NigeriaEPA/ShutterstockHigh on the agenda - for both sides - was the release of those kidnapped. The BBC does not know how many people were released in Jibia, but 37 villagers had been freed in Kurfi, another...

The Virginia high school football coach who went missing Nov. 20  and was later revealed to be wanted on charges involving child sexual abuse material, was last seen walking into the woods with a gun, the coach's family says. A statement from a...

More than 200 firefighters were called to tackle a fire in western Sydney in Australia, after a waste facility caught fire late on Saturday evening. A chemical tank was blown into the air by the resulting explosion, Fire and...

Alkazi Collection of PhotographyHere, the camera played a critical role. In ways that could not be captured in written sources, photographs demonstrate women taking nationalist activities into their own hands: challenging policemen, drumming up support for boycotts, addressing crowds,...

In a village outside Botswana’s capital, Keorapetse Koko sat on an aging couch in her sparsely furnished home, stunned that a career — and an entire nation’s economy — built on diamonds had fallen so far, so fast.For 17 years,...

Yolande Knell,Middle East correspondentandMalak Hassouneh,JerusalemBBCIn a bustling Gaza City market, a money repairer expertly inspects a worn, yellow 100 shekel ($30.50; £23.10) note. He straightens it out and enhances its faded colour with careful strokes of a pencil.Baraa Abu...

In early 2022, Russia and China famously declared their friendship had “no limits,” right before Vladimir Putin ordered the full-scale invasion of Ukraine.More than three years later, that relationship is looking increasingly lopsided, and apparently doesn’t include friendly discounts,...

More than 70,000 Palestinians have been killed as a result of Israel's military campaign in Gaza, according to the territory's Hamas-run health ministry. The death toll has continued to rise since a ceasefire took effect on 10 October, with...

Homeland Security said investigators arrested an Afghan national who allegedly made a social media post about "building a bomb" and threatened to blow up a building in Fort Worth, Texas.Mohammad Dawood Alokozay's arrest took place on Tuesday, Tricia McLaughlin,...