The man, surnamed Kim, was handed a 15-year prison term for abusing three residents at the facility near Seoul.

The BBC’s Jonathan Head looks at the links between the US troops and the resort city of Pattaya as an aircraft carrier ...

A BBC team joined a humanitarian mission of the UN peacekeeping force, which says Israeli troops are fortifying positions and ...

Chinese and Gulf state airlines are among those still using Russian airspace. Meanwhile, Russia says it will intensify its ...

At least 1,114 people have died in Nepal and nearly 4,000 more are missing, according to Nepal's disaster agency. On the ...

After a record 250 days at sea without a port stop, the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln is preparing to ...

The agreement handing the US control over much of Venezuela's oil is described by one former envoy as a colonialist "fever ...

Two men and two women have been charged with murder after a baby girl was found stabbed to death at house in Sheffield. The ...

John Swinney would not be drawn on the scale of job losses likely following his proposals to cut the number of mainland ...

Wet and windy weather will give way to drier conditions late this week, with temperatures rising as high as 26C for some.

The Iranian Red Crescent says the deaths happened when shrapnel from a US missile hit a home where a celebration was taking ...

Blackburn Rovers have signed Modena right-back Gady Beyuku for an undisclosed fee on a "long-term" contract. The 20-year-old ...