North Korea warns Washington a declaration ending the Korean War shouldn’t be seen as a bargaining chip in denuclearization talks.

A year ahead of 250th anniversary of explorer’s arrival, monument will be replaced by ‘cultural designs’

The discovery of rock carvings believed to be tens of thousands of years old in India’s western state of Maharashtra has greatly excited archaeologists who believe they hold clues to a previously unknown civilisation, BBC Marathi’s Mayuresh Konnur reports.

Macedonia’s government prepared for a political battle Monday to push through a deal with Greece that would ultimately pave the way for NATO membership, after the agreement won overwhelming support in a voter referendum, but with low voter turnout.

Pro-secession activists in Spain’s Catalonia region have turned out in large numbers to mark the anniversary of a referendum that was part of a thwarted bid for independence last year.

A senior scientist has given what has been described as a “highly offensive” presentation about the role of women in physics, the BBC has learned.

Indonesian President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo says rescue teams are having difficulty recovering victims from the massive earthquake and tsunami because of a shortage of heavy equipment.

PALU, INDONESIA — The Latest on a powerful earthquake and tsunami that hit Indonesia (all times local):

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Indonesian President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo says rescue teams are having difficulty recovering victims from the massive earthquake and tsunami because of a shortage of heavy equipment.

Julio Rodrigues was still a child when the Ye’kwana and Yanomami indigenous territory where he grew up was overrun by gold miners in the 1980s.

Remains of dictator’s statue at exhibition highlighting nation’s experiences of totalitarianism

It was once the world’s biggest monument to Josef Stalin, casting a dark shadow over Prague at the height of the communist dictatorship that ruled the former Czechoslovakia.

Is India’s Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, correct to claim credit for an airport building boom in his country?

The prime minister tweeted this week that India now had 100 airports and 35 of these had been completed in the past four years, after his BJP government came to power.