The US mid-term election is projected to be the most expensive ever, and the BBC takes a look at where the millions of dollars comes from.

Diane Nammi, founder of Iranian and Kurdish Women's Rights Organization, told BBC World News about her days fighting as a commander in the Kurdish Peshmerga armed forces.

Musarat Misbah, the owner of a chain of beauty parlours in Pakistan, has set up a charity to help care for acid attack survivors whom she also employs in the salons.

A 39,000 year-old baby mammoth named Yuka has been put in display in central Moscow making it the best preserved mammoth in palaeontology.

Zambian President Michael Sata dies in a UK hospital, becoming the second president of the country to die in office.

Thousands of migrants attempt to cross the Mediterranean sea to get into Europe, and some need saving from dangerous vessels.

Designer Lauren Bowker is working on a textile that can respond to brain patterns.

Tens of thousands of people in Hungary have taken part in a peaceful march against the government's plans to tax the internet - the second demonstration in three days.

Louisiana is slowly disappearing into the Gulf of Mexico as its fragile wetlands are eroded by rising sea levels. BBC Pop Up talks to two families surviving on a remote island under threat.

Richard Taylor checks out PetCube, a product that wants to let you interact with your pet while you are away from home, using your phone.

Officials in charge of securing the EU's borders are meeting in Brussels to consider how best to deal with the surge in migrants trying to reach Europe.

The only battle to be fought in the Far East during World War One had a profound and lasting impact on Chinese-Japanese relations.

Turkey's prime minister explains why Turkish ground troops have not been deployed to fight Islamic State (IS) militants in Syria.

An unmanned cargo rocket has exploded seconds after lifting off from a commercial launch pad in Virginia.

Residents of a Hawaiian village threatened by lava have begun evacuating as the flow reaches the first property in its path.

Thirty years ago, India’s Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was murdered in her garden. One of her aides saw everything.

A young girl who escaped North Korea has spoken to the BBC about the violence and starvation she experienced when she lived there.

A hairdresser in Egypt says she is proving people in Egypt who think a woman who works as a hairdresser is not decent wrong.

A lave flow from the Kilauea volcano on Hawaii's Big Island is now drawing close to homes.

The BBC's Jiyar Gol has witnessed a massive blast hit the Syrian city of Kobane - despite militants' claims that the battle is "nearly over".