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Australian novelist Christos Tsiolkas reflects on how alongside Australia's prosperity and increased affluence lie a range of simmering social issues.
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50 years ago, Ruby Bridges made history as the first African-American to attend an all-white elementary school in the American South.
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An overview of the sole French territory in North America
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Key facts and figures from Brazil, showing wealth and population distribution, as well as its GDP growth.
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Ken Loach is in fighting form in Cannes, as he premieres his revenge drama Route Irish
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A report into a private jet crash in which five people were killed finds a missing rivet may have led to the shutdown of an engine.
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As flights slowly begin to take off again in Europe after days of travel chaos, Matt Frei, presenter of BBC World News America, reflects on the beauty and pain of travel - both by air and by ground.
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New rules to allow planes to fly at higher ash densities for a limited time will be introduced at midday on Tuesday, the CAA says.
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Space shuttle Atlantis launches from Florida on what is expected to be its final mission before retirement.
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The fantastical story of JM Barrie's first celebrity cricket team
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Linda Pressly journeys from Lima to the Peruvian Amazon to ask if a controversial economic theory can improve the lives of slum-dwellers and indigenous Amazonian Indians alike.
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A court convicts 26 men accused of working for Hezbollah of planning terrorist attacks on ships and tourist sites.
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Four Palestinians die in a smuggling tunnel under Egypt's border with the Gaza Strip, Palestinian medics say.
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Linda Pressly journeys from Lima to the Peruvian Amazon to ask if a controversial economic theory can improve the lives of slum-dwellers and indigenous Amazonian Indians alike.
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Bangladeshi film industry representatives say they have forced the government to retain a ban on cinemas showing Indian films.
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The oil rig that caught fire and sank off the Louisiana coast does not appear to be leaking oil, the US Coast Guard says.
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Celebrations take place in the Venezuelan capital, Caracas, to mark 200 years since the start of the process that led to independence from Spain.
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Uruguay should have told Argentina about plans for a pulp mill on their shared river but the plant can continue working, the world court rules.
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US President Barack Obama says it should be possible to send astronauts to orbit the planet Mars by the mid-2030s.
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Most flights in the UK will remain grounded until early Saturday as ash from a volcano in Iceland continues to drift across Europe.
