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BBC News Hunter Biden offers to change not- guilty plea in tax case

His offer to accept a guilty verdict arrived just moments before jury selection was due to begin

BBC News 'We'll have to fight to the end' - woman at centre of French rape case

Gisèle Pélicot, 72, was raped by unknown men over the course of 10 years, after being drugged to sleep by her husband.

BBC News Israeli strike kills five Palestinians in West Bank, ministry says

The Israeli military says it targeted an “armed terrorist cell” in Tubas overnight.

BBC News Venezuela opposition: Everyone knows we won vote

Opposition leader Maria Corina Machado says foreign nations should recognise Edmundo González as Venezuela's president.

BBC News Macron's pick Michel Barnier becomes French PM

The French president names the EU's former Brexit negotiator almost two months after snap elections.

BBC News Hunter Biden offers to change not guilty plea in tax case

He has offered to accept a guilty verdict in his tax evasion case, his lawyer tells the BBC.

BBC News Israeli strike kills five Palestinians in West Bank, ministry says

The Israeli military says it targeted an “armed terrorist cell” in Tubas overnight.

BBC News Monsieur Brexit buys Macron time, but French deadlock remains

If by Christmas Mr Barnier still happens to be in office, it will be seen as a job pretty well done.

BBC News Hunter Biden intends to plead guilty in tax evasion case

This is the second federal criminal trial for the president's son this year.

BBC News Trump pleads not guilty to revised election interference charges

Former president responds to new indictment alleging he pressed officials to reverse the 2020 election results.

BBC News Kyiv names new foreign minister in cabinet revamp

Parliament approves several new ministers, but some MPs accuse President Zelensky of centralising power.

BBC News Armed man shot dead in Munich near Israeli consulate

German police say they opened fire on an 18-year-old Austrian man near the Nazi documentation centre in Munich.

BBC News Olympic athlete Rebecca Cheptegei dies days after being set alight by ex-boyfriend

Marathon runner Rebecca Cheptegei, 33, was doused in petrol after returning home from church.

BBC News US secures release of 135 political prisoners from Nicaragua

The group includes students, Catholic laypeople and members of a Texas-based Evangelical group.

BBC News Michel Barnier named by Macron as new French PM

The French president names the EU's former Brexit negotiator almost two months after snap elections.