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The robot football league that is hoping to eventually beat the best human team in the world.

Indian princes were often stereotyped as lazy hedonists, but they were serious political figures.

Long-held doubts about the authenticity of the National Gallery’s masterpiece, bought for £2.5m in 1980, are backed by pioneering technology

We're constantly taught the recipe for getting ahead is to put our heads down and outwork everyone else. But that's not quite right.

The Landsat-9 imaging mission lifts off to maintain the longest space-based record of Planet Earth.

The BBC's Jeremy Bowen travels to Helmand province, a month after the hardline Islamists took control.

The hardline group says anyone cutting beards will be punished as it breaches their reading of Islamic law.

The fashion house's parent company, Kering, says all its brands will be fur-free by autumn 2022.

A posh building on NYC's Billionaire Row has been facing a series of serious woes.

Trading Bitcoin and other crypto-currenices is a criminal activity, China's central bank says.

Two men dressed as lawyers opened fire in court on a man police detained on charges of murder and extortion.

Everyday foods such as coffee, meat and spices could become luxury items due to global climate impacts and changing tastes.

Around the world, amphibian and reptile species are under threat, but two teenagers are reviving rare frogs, turtles and snakes to help diversify wetlands.

After an illness, Stu began reuniting old postcards with their owners - and revived some buried memories.

One wildly inaccurate claim suggests Germany does not actually exist.

The government is set to make it illegal for hospitality bosses to withhold tips from their workers.

Scientists have found evidence that humans reached the Americas earlier than previously thought.

The compensation payment is one of hundreds by the Ministry of Defence, revealed for the first time.

How an ancient story of a superhuman king ended up in all sorts of unexpected places.

The star says she has become "a recluse" after an adverse reaction to a fat reduction procedure.

Socrates or Plato may not have used Twitter or TikTok, but as Nathan Dufour Oglesby writes, they would have had things to say about how to navigate social media more wisely.

Pictures of border officers rounding up black men have drawn comparisons to US slave patrols.

A number of firms are now farming locusts and mealworms for human consumption.

Campaigners say including extremist narratives among everyday conversations can be a pathway to radicalisation.