Pope Francis suffers a setback as proposals for wider acceptance of gay people failed to win a two-thirds majority at the Catholic Church synod.

Pro-democracy demonstrators in Hong Kong have clashed with police as they return to the streets in the Mong Kok district, just hours after they were cleared by the authorities.

Scientists think that a newly discovered species of dinosaur, whose remains were found after 20 years of excavation in Venezuela, maybe related to the Tyrannosaurus Rex.

President Obama has told Americans there must not be hysteria in response to the Ebola outbreak.

A unmanned US plane on a top-secret, two-year mission to space has returned to Earth and landed in California.

At least 16 people die in an accident during a pop concert by popular band 4Minute in South Korea.

Search and rescue teams spend a third day looking for survivors of a severe storm on a popular hiking trail in Nepal.

Dozens of Bangladeshi men are rescued after being kidnapped to be sold into slavery in Thailand.

At least 29 people are known to have died in a deadly storm which hit the popular Annapurna trekking circuit, in the Himalayas

Baghdad residents speak about their determination to carry on with life as normal despite the on-going threat from Islamic State militants.

Hundreds of climate change protestors have attempted to disrupt shipments of coal from a port north of Sydney using their canoes, kayaks and surfboards to form a blockade.

Hurricane Gonzalo is barrelling down on the tiny British island of Bermuda with winds of around 140 miles per hour.

A church in the centre of the West Flanders town Anzegem, in Belgium, is hit by a huge fire.

The car industry jamboree known as the Paris Motor Show is wrapping up on the outskirts of the French capital.

The Islamic State (IS) militant group is driven out of most of the northern Syrian town of Kobane, a Kurdish commander tells the BBC.

Athlete Oscar Pistorius is in court for the fifth day of his sentencing hearing, after being convicted of killing girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp

Police in Hong Kong have used cranes to clear road blocks erected around a major protest site.

After President Putin banned fresh food imports from the EU, how are Russians coping without delicacies like Parmesan cheese and Serrano ham?

Three members of a Dutch motorcycle club are now leading a Kurdish battalion fighting against the Islamic State in Iraq.

The UK's casualty vessel RFA Argus will depart on Friday for Sierra Leone with medical teams and aid experts on board as world leaders call for more aid to fight Ebola.