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Stories from Indonesia's prison island
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The silos that housed Soviet 'Satan' missiles serve as both tourist attraction and a reminder of Ukraine's nuclear past.
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A 92-year-old Argentine activist who thought she was reunited with her long-missing granddaughter is "devastated" after the woman turned out to be a stranger.
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Vast areas in Paraguay, Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil are being hit by the worst flooding in 50 years, forcing the evacuation of more than 150,000 people.
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At least 24 people are now known to have died after days of tornadoes and heavy rains in US south-central states, as a new storm hits Texas.
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The owner of a gypsum mine in China's eastern Shandong province kills himself as rescue efforts continue for 17 miners trapped for two days, media report.
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Conservationists at Chester Zoo have brought one of the world's most endangered birds - the Javan green magpie - into captivity.
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Robert Spitzer, the influential US psychiatrist who helped declassify homosexuality as an illness, dies aged 83.
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Pakistan leg-spinner Yasir Shah is provisionally suspended by the ICC after failing a drugs test last month.
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Dramatic mobile footage shows the moment a Dutch family drive through raging California wildfire.
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Iraqi forces enter government compound in Ramadi, stronghold of so-called Islamic State for months, sources tell BBC.
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One of the Islamist militants who attacked the Bataclan concert hall in Paris on 13 November was buried on Christmas Eve in an unmarked grave, reports say.
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Sri Lanka's president says the organisers of a recent Enrique Iglesias concert should be whipped, criticising the behaviour of some female fans.
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A Briton completes the first non-stop solo rowing trip across the Pacific from North America to Australia, arriving in Cairns after 209 days at sea.
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Iranian President Hassan Rouhani says Muslims must work to improve the world's opinion of Islam, which he says has been tarnished by violence.
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Eleven people have been killed in tornadoes in Texas, police say, raising the death toll to 29 in a week of storms across several US states.
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The head of Israel's missile defence programmes has been dismissed for a "breach of security", the defence ministry says.
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Pope Francis calls on Central American countries to show generosity in dealing with the plight of thousands of Cuban migrants stranded in the region.
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Iraqi forces have retaken a former government compound in Ramadi from where Islamic State (IS) group militants have been resisting an army offensive, the military has said.
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Tornadoes in the Dallas area of Texas kill at least 11 people, with heavy rain and snow causing deaths and disruption in a number of other states.
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