Two earthquakes measuring 5.3 and 5.1 have been detected beneath Iceland's Bardarbunga volcano

Ukraine is launching its first 24-hour English language news station, aiming to promote the country's image abroad and counter what it claims is a Russian media campaign against it.

Crowds came out to see the demolition of the 100-year-old Wellington Annex building in Albany, New York on Saturday.

More than 2,500 people march in New York's Staten Island to protest over the death of an unarmed black man following an incident with a white police officer.

Chinese authorities shut down the 11th Beijing Independent Film Festival on its opening day.

Iceland issues a red alert to the aviation industry for the Bardarbunga volcano, meaning significant ash emissions are likely.

The UN has called for action to prevent what it says may be a possible massacre in the northern Iraqi town of Amerli.

All trucks belonging to a Russian aid convoy that travelled to rebel-held eastern Ukraine on Friday have returned to Russia.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket exploded shortly after lift-off on Friday at the company's site in McGregor, Texas.

David Loyn looks at how votes are being checked in the wake of Afghanistan's disputed presidential election.

Thousands of Pakistani protesters defy soaring temperatures and rain to maintain their protest against Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif outside the parliament in Islamabad.

Russia sends more than 100 aid lorries into eastern Ukraine, without permission from Kiev.

As Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond announces Britain will not work with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in the battle against Islamic State extremists, the BBC's Jeremy Bowen reports on the options in the fight against the IS regime.

A survivor of an Islamic State massacre in Iraq says that initially the militants had promised not to hurt the people in his village.

More than a hundred people are known to have died in Nepal in recent flooding and landslides caused by torrential rain in the area.

A Soyuz rocket carrying two satellites which will make up part of a new European sat-nav system, blasts off from French Guiana.

Islamic State militants have been accused of a number of atrocities in Iraq and Syria - but it is not just people from the region who have been fighting for the group.

The world's only two flying Lancasters have been united with a Vulcan bomber in a formation flight described as a "never to be repeated" event

President Nicolas Maduro of Venezuela has announced a mandatory fingerprinting system in supermarkets to combat food shortages and smuggling.

Russian EU food sanctions hit just before the Polish apple crop harvests leaving farmers with a glut of unsold fruit.