The World Health Organization says it did not anticipate how big the Ebola crisis in Africa and beyond, was going to become.

A colleague of the Spanish nurse infected with Ebola has spoken to the BBC about the challenges of staying safe while caring for infected patients.

Barack Obama has said the US has 'unique capabilities' to fight Ebola, as troops in Fort Campbell, Kentucky prepare to fight the 'invisible enemy'.

BBC News follows a group of surgeons from the UK as they take their skills to help treat Palestinians wounded in this year's Gaza conflict.

As war and economic crises engulf nations around the world, migrants flee in search of a better life.

At least 67 people have been killed in two suicide bomb attacks on a protest in Yemen's capital Sanaa and on an army checkpoint in the country's east.

Quentin Somerville reports that US-led air strikes on the Syrian Kurdish town of Kobane seem to have stalled an IS advance, as Kurdish sources say the militants have lost ground.

A missing Australian woman has survived 17 days lost in the northern Queensland bush, local reports say. Here's a quick look at the story.

A Belgian man whose adopted son travelled to Syria to join Islamic State gives an insight into life with the militants.

The tiny high definition camera called the GoPro has made its founder and chief executive a multi-billionaire after it was floated.

Nomsa Maseko reports on the Cape Town residents still fighting to get their land back, 20 years after the end of apartheid.

The biggest escalation in violence in the Kashmir region in years has seen at least 16 people killed on both sides.

The Chinese government is worried that the pressure to get into the best universities is turning schools into 'exam factories'

There has been more shelling along the border between Pakistan and Indian administered Kashmir in the biggest escalation in violence in years.

Thousands of rescuers are sent to Yunnan province, China, after a shallow 6.0 magnitude earthquake forces tens of thousands of people from their homes.

RAF airstrikes at the beginning of October helped Kurdish forces fight Islamic State out of one of their strongholds in Iraq.

Some Kenyans demonstrate their support for their President Uhuru Kenyatta outside the International Criminal Court.

A train derailed in Canada on Tuesday causing some of the hazardous material it was carrying to set on fire

Kenya's President, Uhuru Kenyatta, has become the first sitting head of state to appear before the International Criminal Court in The Hague.

BBC Click gets rare access to the twin of Nasa's Curiosity Mars rover which is helping scientists solve problems on the Red Planet.