James Comey didn't bury Donald Trump in his Senate testimony on Thursday morning, but he dug a Trump-sized hole in the ground.
Top Russian oligarch Alisher Usmanov has run a 'meme contest' as part of a row with opposition leader Alexei Navalny.
Authorities were tipped off that a cargo ship bound for Turkey was smuggling heroin.
Fossils of five early humans have been found in North Africa that show Homo sapiens emerged at least 100,000 years earlier than previously recognised.
The first major new railway in Kenya for more than a century has some challenging goals to meet if it is justify its high cost.
A bumper harvest of crops has, ironically, led to a fresh crisis in farming.
A British man is thought to have broken the World Record for greatest peak speed flown in a wingsuit.
Remembering some of the big name inventions that weren't a big success.
The BBC's Auliya Atrafi goes behind the front line in Afghanistan to see life under militant control.
