Every Thursday and Friday, Kenya's third largest city, Kisumu, grinds to a halt as hundreds of motorcyclists block the roads.

Riot police have fired tear gas and water cannon during clashes with demonstrators as at least 100,000 people marched through Brussels in the first mass protests against government austerity measures.

The BBC looks at why the price of oil has been so volatile recently.

A woman still living in Kobane has described daily life in the city which is besieged by Islamic State militants.

A 13-year-old boy has told the BBC of his plans to join Islamic State, after watching jihadist videos and chatting to IS fighters online.

A woman whose abduction was caught on CCTV has been safely found in the US state of Maryland, police have said.

Rory Cellan-Jones meets volunteers in Reading trialling a headset that talks visually impaired people around cities.

Thousands of Mexicans have been marching through the streets of Mexico City to protest against the pace of investigations on the whereabouts of 43 missing student teachers.

Phil Rudd, the drummer of the hard rock group AC/DC, appears in a New Zealand court on charges of attempting to arrange a murder.

New malware targeting Apple products is mostly affecting Chinese users, warned an online security researcher.

Morocco's three largest trade unions staged a 24 hour strike against subsidy cuts, so has the country reached tipping point over these economic reforms?

Dramatic footage shows the moment a Colombian man was plucked from the Pacific Ocean after two days at sea.

The head of the UN mission charged with fighting Ebola tells the BBC he does not yet have the resources necessary to defeat the deadly disease.

Ali Hamedani reports on the gay people from Iran faced with a choice of gender reassignment surgery or death.

Anne Soy reports on the Mali health workers receiving experimental doses of a new vaccine against Ebola.

The United Nations mission charged with fighting Ebola does not yet have the capacity to defeat the disease, the operation's head tells the BBC

Reforms in Myanmar have "stalled", pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi warns.

A Palestinian has driven a car into several pedestrians in Jerusalem, killing a policeman, hours after clashes at the city's holiest site.

A Libyan soldier has spoken to BBC News from the Cambridgeshire barracks at the centre of Britain's controversial training mission for the Libyan army.

Rain soaked southern France swept with more torrents