Columbian conductor Andres Orozco-Estrada exuberantly connects with concert-goers at a time when classical music is struggling to maintain its audience.

Under the terms, the opioid maker agreed to pay $900m, and the family behind it agreed to pay up to $6.5bn.

After the ouster of Syria’s longtime leader Bashar al-Assad last month, Israel’s military has taken up a new post in the demilitarized buffer zone created in Syria after the 1973 Arab-Israeli war.

Europe’s highest human rights court ruled the refusal of sex is not a valid ground for fault in a divorce.

Karim Khan is seeking arrest warrants for the Taliban government’s Supreme Leader and chief justice.

Friedrich Merz says he will close Germany’s borders to irregular migrants, including those with a right to protection.

Hundreds of same-sex couples tied the knot across Thailand on Thursday, as the country becomes the first in Southeast Asia to legally recognize equal marriage.

At least 17 people, mostly children, have died of an unidentified cause in a village in Jammu since December.

Japan’s century-old Mingei, or folk art, movement celebrates the everyday work of anonymous artists. It stands in contrast to both fine arts and industrially mass-produced goods. And it’s having a yet another revival.

Celebrity jewellery designer Lynn Ban has died weeks after a ski accident on Christmas Eve.

The BBC spoke to couples who married at a Bangkok mall to ask what the legalisation means to them.

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said in a report that gangs in Haiti could overrun the capital, leading to a complete breakdown of government, without additional international support.

The price to climb the world’s tallest peak will soon increase for the first time in almost a decade.

The BBC’s Analysis Editor explains how controversial pardons made by Biden and Trump stretched the limits of the power.