Microsoft confirmed it wants to acquire TikTok after President Trump threatened to ban the app.

US parents are resorting to "pandemic pods" and garden classrooms - but will it deepen inequalities?

Amid a global pandemic and diplomatic tensions, Chinese students in the US are feeling anxious.

Women in Iran are often too scared to speak about domestic abuse - now a podcast gives them a voice.

Nearly 200 people died last month in a jade mine landslide. Now the survivors are going back to work.

The girl was killed by a stray bullet in a drive-by shooting that went wrong, media reports say.

Progress is being made though, its chief says, as he stresses the importance of preventive steps.

Saniniu Laizer sells a Tanzanite stone for $2 million (£1.5m), months after a similar find.

President Alexander Lukashenko has kept Belarus in an iron grip, but protests have intensified.

Several carnivorous animals have almost disappeared from areas set up to protect giant pandas.