Gavin Butler

Gavin Butler Some 600,000 people are expected to gather in a field outside Timor-Leste's capital Dili on Tuesday afternoon, for what is set to be one of the biggest masses of Pope Francis's papacy.

Cost of living is front of many voters' minds in what is expected to be a close race.

The former Marxist is considered a disruptor to the old discredited political order.

Left-leaning politician Anura Kumara Dissanayake has been elected as Sri Lanka’s next President after he won the debt-ridden country’s first election since its economy collapsed in 2022.

Gavin Butler Shaimaa Khalil An 88-year-old man who is the world's longest-serving death row inmate has been acquitted by a Japanese court.

The vote is set to take place more than a year before an election is due.

Summary China is holding military exercises around Taiwan, in what it calls a "stern warning" against those seeking "independence" for the self-ruled island

A group facing allegations of sexual abuse carried out crimes even after a crackdown, say authorities.

BBC Chinese and Gavin Butler A heavy police response has stifled Halloween celebrations in Shanghai, in what many have viewed as an attempt

Revelations that the actor had a baby out of wedlock have shaken up ideals of the "traditional" family.