Lee Ming-che: Taiwanese activist goes on trial in China
Image copyright AFP/Getty Images Image caption Selected clips of Mr Lee's trial are being posted on the Hunan court's Weibo account A Taiwanese pro-democracy activist has gone on trial in China accused of "subverting state power".Chinese authorities say Lee Ming-che
Iraqi Kurds ‘prepared to draw own borders’, Barzani warns Baghdad
Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionMassoud Barzani spoke to the BBC The president of Iraqi Kurdistan has signalled it will draw the borders of a future Kurdish state if Baghdad does not accept a vote for independence
Creative currency
Image copyright Getty Images Almost 750 years ago, a young Venetian merchant named Marco Polo wrote a remarkable book chronicling his travels in China. The Book of the Marvels of the World was full of strange foreign customs that Marco
Burning villages
Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionWho is burning down Rohingya villages? The 300,000 people who have fled Rakhine state to Bangladesh over the past two weeks all come from the northern districts of Maungdaw, Buthidaung and Rathedaung,
‘This is absurd’
Image copyright Malcolm Turnbull Image caption This photo created much discussion in Australia on the weekend Australians have come to the defence of PM Malcolm Turnbull after a photo of him holding his grandchild and a beer became a topic
Brown on blonde
Image copyright Eileen Carey A Silicon Valley CEO reveals her secret to getting ahead in business - dyeing her blonde hair brown, and ditching her heels and contact lenses.Eileen Carey is a successful CEO, in her early 30s, with glasses
Hidden agenda?
Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionRussian military helicopters on exercise in Crimea, Feb 2016 It is being billed as a military exercise, but when Russian and Belarusian forces start Zapad-2017 this week, many neighbouring countries will be
Last to the table
Image caption The Damor family now eat all their meals together Meals have a way of bringing families together. As food is laid out, everyone gathers round the table, conversation flows and families bond. But traditionally, eating together has not
Brazilian tycoon arrested after lawyers send prosecutors the wrong tape
Image copyright Reuters Image caption Mr Batista has denied hiding any evidence from prosecutors A Brazilian billionaire at the centre of a corruption case involving President Michel Temer has handed himself in to federal police officers in the city of
Hurricane Irma: Eye of storm hits Florida west coast
The centre of Hurricane Irma has hit mainland Florida, just south of Naples, amid warnings of storm surges as high as 15ft (4.5m).Irma has been downgraded to a category three storm, but made landfall on Marco Island off Florida's west