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Turning wild spaces into farmland or cities creates opportunities for diseases to cross into humans.

In Venice, the recent pause in tourism provided by the pandemic has fuelled local protests calling for the government to seize the moment and turn the tide on mass tourism.

Satellite and aerial images show the extent of the Beirut port explosion that ripped through the Lebanese city.

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says he wants a "clean" internet free of "untrusted" Chinese apps.

Dozens of people are moved from an area below a weakened Mont Blanc glacier.

It is 75 years since the US dropped atomic bombs on the two Japanese cities, leading to WW2's end.

The MV Wakashio, which ran aground on a coral reef on 25 July, is now leaking oil off the island.

Luke Denman and Airan Berry were arrested in May while entering Venezuela by sea from Colombia.

The blaze in the 11th floor flat was deliberately started after a family dispute, local officials say.

Jerry Falwell Jr will step down as president of Liberty University after posting the "weird" image.

From invading animals to a faulty computer chip worth less than a dollar, the alarmingly long list of close calls shows just how easily nuclear war could happen by mistake.

'Productivity’ has become a buzzword with positive connotations – but what happens when getting things done is taken to an extreme?

Toshiba has sold its remaining shares in its former personal computing division.

A metal detectorist discovers a rare hoard of Bronze Age artefacts during an expedition near Peebles.

The arrests of Jimmy Lai and other prominent pro-democracy activists raise fears of a broad crackdown.

Fifty years ago, this remote micronation declared independence in a story of princes and princesses, taxes and treason and wheat quotas and war.

The Boy Who Danced on Air is cancelled after its TV debut provokes a backlash among Afghans.

Russia's president says the vaccine - named Sputnik-V - has passed checks but experts are sceptical.

The expulsions are reportedly related to the murder of a Georgian man in Berlin last year.

People are turning to artificial office noise to help them while working from home during lockdown.

The world’s coastlines are turning to concrete, at a huge cost to wildlife and the climate. But new technologies may offer a way to shore up coasts while benefiting biodiversity.

Archaeologists say they've discovered the earliest known bone tools in Europe.

Four bones found at Shanklin belonged to a new species of theropod dinosaur, a study finds.

There has been a race against time to remove the fuel oil, amid fears that the ship will break up.

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