Thirty-five restaurants across China have been caught illegally using opium poppies as a seasoning, food safety officials reveal.

A police officer is sentenced to life in prison for raping and sexually assaulting black women in the poor part of Oklahoma where he worked.

A French museum returns the head of a 7th Century Hindu statue to Cambodia 130 years after it was taken from a temple.

Indonesian investigators seek information from Australia about a woman who died after drinking coffee laced with cyanide.

Haiti's president says a runoff to choose the nation's next leader will take place on Sunday despite threats of an opposition boycott.

Andrei Lugovoi, accused by a public inquiry of being one of the killers of ex-Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko, brands the judge's conclusions as "nonsense".

American pop star Mariah Carey is engaged to Australian billionaire James Packer, the BBC has learned.

France will seek to keep a state of emergency until a "total and global war" against so-called Islamic State (IS) is over, PM Manuel Valls tells the BBC.