Ali Moore reports from the Singapore Garden Festival, where designers, horticulturists and thousands of orchids have created new ideas for Asia's gardens.

Thirteen more foreign tourists and Indonesian crew have been rescued after a boat sank off the coast of eastern Indonesia.

The BBC's Paul Wood has travelled through northern Syria and northern Iraq and has met with civilians who have had their lives destroyed by the crisis in the region.

US police fired smoke bombs and tear gas at a crowd which defied an overnight curfew in Ferguson, where a black teenager was shot dead by police last week.

Matt Grainger explains how he has managed to turn his passion for surfing into a profitable business.

A group of 35 men, women and children found inside a shipping container at a port are understood to be Sikhs from Afghanistan, Essex Police say.

Jamaican sprinter and world record holder Usain Bolt dances samba with children on Rio de Janeiro's Copacabana Beach ahead of a 100m race to promote the Rio 2016 Games.

In an interview with the BBC, Iraq's former foreign minister Hoshyar Zebari outlines the "formidable" international threat that militant group the Islamic State (IS) poses.

Lorries from a Russian convoy carrying aid to eastern Ukraine have reached a border post controlled by separatists.

A major pro-government rally in Hong Kong has drawn thousands of supporters, in response to civil disobedience campaigns by activists.

Kurdish forces says them need improved weaponry in order to tackle Islamic State militants in Iraq.

A new memorial has been unveiled in Belgium to commemorate the services of Welsh men and women during World War One.

Kenyan officials say the country is closing its borders to travellers from Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone in response to the deadly Ebola outbreak.

A British mining company is at the centre of a bitter dispute with the Sami reindeer herders over its plans to drill for iron ore in the far north of Sweden.

Thousands of protesters gathered in Pakistan's capital Islamabad as rally leaders Imran Khan and Tahirul Qadri called for Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to step down.

A Dutchman honoured by Israel for hiding a Jewish child during World War Two has handed back his medal after six of his relatives were killed in an Israeli air strike on Gaza.

Humanitarian aid is being distributed to hundreds of thousands of Yazidi people, fleeing Islamic militants in Northern Iraq.

About 1,000 people gather to see the unveiling of a lasting monument to Welsh soldiers who died in World War One in Flanders.

Reporting from a refugee camp in Dohuk, the BBC's Yalda Hakim says that the Yazidi community are trying to come to terms with news of a massacre in the village of Kawju on Friday.

An eyewitness captures the moment a waterspout sweeps across a Zeebrugge beach, knocking down beach chairs and booths and damaging a terrace.