New cancer treatment credited for saving the life of 9-year-old boy...
Samsung has unveiled a folding handset at an event in San Francisco. It described its Infinity Flex Display as "the foundation of the smartphone of tomorrow" and said it intended to start production within months. When unfolded, t...
Child suicides in Japan are the highest they have been in more than three decades, the country's education ministry says. In the fiscal year 2016/7 up to March, 250 children from elementary to high school age were recorded as having taken th...
Hurricane Michael, strongest storm to hit US in 50 years, makes landfall in Florida...
A New Year's resolution is something that goes in one year and out the other....
This 4-year-old girl dresses up as her favorite celebs...
A drug to treat malaria - the first such pill to get approval in 60 years - has been given the green light by authorities in the United States. The medicine is specifically for the recurring form of malaria, which makes 8.5 million people ill each y...
Q: Why should you stand in the corner if you get cold? A: It's always 90 degrees....
OMG! SHY Girl Turns Into A Singing Lion & Gets GOLDEN BUZZER! - America's Got Talent 2018...
The coach of the England netball team has told Radio 1 Newsbeat how one of her star players reacted to winning gold at the Commonwealth Games. Tracey Neville's team won gold for the first time after a last-second goal by Helen Hous...
A baby has been born in China to a surrogate mother four years after his parents died in a car crash, Chinese media reported. The couple, who died in 2013, had frozen several embryos hoping to have a child through IVF. After the accident, t...
For the past 15 years fans of tormented superstar Leslie Cheung, one of the first celebrities to come out as gay in Asia, have gathered at Hong Kong's Mandarin Oriental Hotel to mourn the day he took his own life. It's a poignant sign of why...
Arnold Schwarzenegger recovering after open-heart surgery...
Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy has been taken into police custody for questioning over allegations that he received campaign funding from the late Libyan leader Col Muammar Gaddafi. Police are investigating alleged irregularities ov...
Bali has asked phone companies to turn off mobile internet to celebrate New Year, which falls locally on Saturday. Mobile internet will be shut down to mark Nyepi, a Hindu holiday on the Indonesian island. The island's airport will also shu...
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and US President Donald Trump are to meet in person by the end of May, it has been announced, an extraordinary overture after months of mutual hostility. News of the meeting was delivered by South Korean offic...
Ambulances and emergency response vehicles were deployed more than 1,500 times to five patients in 12 months, the BBC has learned. A total of 8,303 emergency calls were made by the five most frequent UK callers. An NHS spokesman said the ca...
How do you keep warm? Tips from cold countries...
PYEONGCHANG, Feb. 12 (Xinhua) -- Canada grabbed its first gold medal at PyeongChang Olympics in the figure skating team event on Monday with strong and balanced performances of all disciplines. Canada took the lead in the team standings sinc...
The 23rd Winter Olympics begin in Pyeongchang on Friday and are set to be the coldest in history. The build-up has seen relations thaw between North and South Korea, with the countries fielding a joint women's ice hockey team, while there ha...