On the eve of a major conservation conference in London, the BBC has carried out an undercover investigation into China's illegal ivory traders and how they operate.

A sinkhole swallows eight rare automobiles at a sports car museum in the US state of Kentucky, including two vehicles on loan.

Italy's Democratic Party is to hold a crisis meeting, amid speculation that PM Enrico Letta could be replaced by his younger rival Matteo Renzi.

A winter snowstorm of "historical proportions" is bearing down on the US north-east, after gridlocking traffic and causing power cuts across the South.

Belgium's lower house is expected to vote on whether to extend a euthanasia law to terminally-ill children.

Afghanistan says it will go ahead with the release of 65 detainees from Bagram detention centre despite the US insisting the men are "dangerous".

At least two people are shot dead and 23 injured during a student demonstration in the Venezuelan capital, Caracas.

US Secretary of State John Kerry is due in Seoul, a day after the two Koreas made little progress in their highest-level talks in six years.