In the Egyptian capital, Cairo, rising prices have forced almost two million people out of their homes over the years, and many now live in cemeteries.

Australian MP Clive Palmer has been criticised after he launched an extraordinary attack on the Chinese government, live on national TV.

The War Horse is due to take to the stage in China next year. Carrie Gracie reports from Beijing where rehearsals are taking place.

The BBC looks at what it is like to be a cyclist in Beijing and Cairo.

The police use tear gas and stun grenades after minor clashes with protestors in Ferguson, Missouri.

The BBC's Emmanuel Igunza investigates the role of Kenyan soldiers in World War One

A new search has begun in Myanmar for the Dhammazedi Bell - said to have fallen into a river near the country's capital in 1608

French film director Luc Besson talks about his new science fiction thriller called Lucy, starring Scarlett Johansson

Humanitarian aid is being distributed to thousands of Yazidi people who have fled Islamic militants in northern Iraq, but conditions are harsh in refugee camps and many fear they will never be able to return home.

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has suggested he will leave the Ecuadorean embassy in London "soon".

Gloucester Docks is converted into a film set for the sequel to Alice in Wonderland.

A group of people from Afghanistan rescued from a shipping container in Essex are claiming asylum in the UK, the Home Office has said.

Two Russian cosmonauts set off on a spacewalk from the International Space Station (ISS) to launch a nano-satellite.

Two people are still missing after a tourist boat sank off the Indonesian coast on Saturday night.

The BBC's Paul Wood says it is too early to say whether Kurdish Peshmerga fighters and Iraqi troops have recaptured Mosul dam from Islamic State (IS) militants.

Khat - a plant used as a stimulant - was banned as a class C drug in the UK earlier this year. This has meant that its mainly Kenyan producers and exporters have been forced to direct their supplies closer to home, to Somalia.

Non EU member Switzerland has not imposed sanctions on Russia - a situation that does not please its biggest trading partner, the European Union.

A fast-moving wildfire sweeps across the Angeles National Forest in southern California in the United States.

The US state of Missouri is deploying the National Guard to Ferguson as protests escalate over the police shooting of an unarmed black teenager.

Kurdish officials say that their Peshmerga fighters have broadly taken control of a strategically important dam in northern Iraq from Islamist militants.