A Palestinian driver has rammed a car into several pedestrians in Jerusalem, killing one person, hours after clashes erupted at the city's holiest site.

CCTV footage of Shrien Dewani meeting Zola Tongo, the man convicted of arranging the murder of Anni Dewani, has been shown in court.

Thousands of people have replied to a free round-the-world ticket offer for woman named 'Elizabeth Gallagher'.

There is a growing fear that the conflict in neighbouring Syria will spill over into Lebanon, and that has left some communities taking up arms themselves.

The Spanish nurse who contracted Ebola outside of West Africa was cheered into a press conference after being discharged from hospital.

The mayor of the Colombian port city of Cartagena has said he will ask for a controversial plaque unveiled last week by Prince Charles to be removed.

Rajesh Mirchandani explains the results of the US mid-term elections in what was a "very good night for Republicans".

Clive Myrie looks around a new, British army-built centre for treating people with Ebola in Kerry Town, Sierra Leone.

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko orders army reinforcements to key southern and eastern cities in case of a new rebel offensive, following disputed polls in Donetsk and Luhansk.

In just three years Twitch.tv has become a household name for videogamers but does it represent a new mainstream cultural phenomenon?

Coast guard officials in the Libyan capital have told the BBC they have stopped the patrols intended to prevent migrants from trying to cross the Mediterranean.

One village in Sierra Leone, too remote to receive help from the authorities, is dealing with Ebola by keeping the dying on one side of the main road, and the living on the other.

The father of one of the women found murdered in the Hong Kong flat of a British banker says they are struggling to come to terms with her death.

Shia Muslims around the world have been marking Ashura - a commemoration of the martyrdom of Hussein, grandson of the Prophet Muhammad.

The authorities in Rome are considering rebuilding the famous arena inside the city's Colosseum.

People in western Japan reported sightings of a sparkling light racing across the sky on Monday evening.

Americans are voting in mid-term elections which will decide who controls the Senate and pave the way for the 2016 race for the White House.

Fighting intensifies between the army and Islamist fighters in the Libyan city of Benghazi.

More than 13 years after the original towers were destroyed in the 9/11 attacks, New York's World Trade Center has reopened for business.

When a blue thermos flask sent from Zaire arrived at a lab in Antwerp in September 1976, no one knew that the blood samples inside would contain the worlds first glimpse of Ebola.