Gustavo Dudamel confirms his US tour with Venezuela's National Youth Orchestra has been cancelled.

The selfie stick looked a bit out of place in front of the Dome of the Rock, but no one seemed to care.

A school play about a shameful chapter in Australia's history caused anger, but was it justified?

Cambridge University Press restores access to sensitive China stories after academics protest.

President Buhari urges Nigerians to unite on his return from three months of medical leave in the UK.

James Dresnok was believed to be the last living US soldier to defect, crossing the DMZ in 1962.

The monuments are symbols of "modern white supremacy and neo-Nazism", the school's president says.

The northern city was once a strategic IS supply route between Mosul and the Syrian border.

US consulates will no longer issue visas to Russians - only the Moscow embassy will do so.

People hug and chant "no terrorism" on the street where people were killed in last week's attack.

The Spanish woman was being wheeled out of a lift when it began moving upwards, reports say.

The hunt for the driver behind the van attack in Barcelona last week widens across Europe.

Twitter users hope The Day the Clown Cried may be released in the wake of the comic's death.

Pyongyang has already lashed out at the annual drills, saying they were "adding fuel to the fire".

South Africa's main opposition party accuses the government of protecting its "dodgy friends".

Danish inventor Peter Madsen has said he "buried" missing reporter Kim Wall at sea, police say.

An official charter gives the president's wife duties but no formal "first lady" role.

This is the moment Big Ben chimed for the last time before major restoration work starts.

TV claims that instructions for the voting app come from the top of Russian politics.

Film crews are shooting scenes for a new Godzilla film in the historic streets of Mexico's capital.