Vladimir Putin announced the truce, which will last from Saturday afternoon on 11 April through Easter Sunday.

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The rise in energy prices has hit Asia particularly hard as many nations are heavily reliant on Gulf oil.

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Key US objectives at the start of the war were to stop Iran getting a nuclear weapon and degrading its arsenal.

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The 42-year-old gold miner was standing in waist-high water when rescuers found him in a flooded tunnel.

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One of the biggest mysteries in publishing is solved, as The Housemaid writer reveals her real name.

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The provisional truce comes more than a month after the US and Israel launched coordinated attacks on Iran.

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The cameraman and photographer won eight Emmy Awards for his work on acclaimed series like Blue Planet alongside Sir David Attenborough.

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The megastars kick off their grandest tour, the largest in K-pop history, in Seoul on Thursday after a nearly four-year hiatus.

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Migrant workers say they are struggling to access cooking gas cylinders as the Iran war squeezes supplies.

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The US can do a lot of damage to civilian infrastructure but military experts say it's not feasible to carry out all Trump's threats.

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Ordinary Iranians respond to the US president's threat to destroy Iran's power plants and bridges unless it opens the Strait of Hormuz.

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The father and son died in jail after being arrested on suspicion of breaching Covid lockdown rules in 2020.

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Countries around the world, including the US, have already stopped imports over the outbreak.

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The BBC's Orla Guerin travels to the edge of the critical waterway that Iran has put a stranglehold on.

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Residents say they support the administration's immigration agenda - but not its plans to build a detention centre in their backyard.

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Chapal Bhaduri was Bengal’s biggest stage queen - until women arrived and the spotlight moved on.

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Former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi calls the plan a "stupid notion that would be nothing more than a waste of taxpayer dollars".

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A new exhibition charts Bombay's passage through the centuries via paintings, photographs and prints.

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Hungary is going to the polls in nine days - after 16 years in power, can Viktor Orban be unseated?

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Hackers were reported to have infiltrated IT systems - but the gallery says its works are safe.

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