An Emmanuel Adebayor double helps Tottenham beat 10-man Dnipro and reach the last 16 of the Europa League.

Caroline Karobia meets some of the 20,000 refugees who have fled the violence in South Sudan for Kakuma, a refugee camp in Kenya.

With the question about immigration becoming ever more important in Britain, the BBC World Service is on a road trip across the United Kingdom to examine the issue.

People in cities across the world stage protests in support of journalists from the al-Jazeera network who are being detained in Egypt.

An international report warns of the systematic use of violence against schools and universities.

A person named in a Ugandan tabloid newspaper's list of '200 top homosexuals' speaks anonymously to the BBC about the impact of the country's tough new anti-gay laws.

Toronto striker Bright Dike is officially ruled out of Nigeria's World Cup squad after surgery on an Achilles injury.

German legend Franz Beckenbauer agrees to be an ambassador for Libya as the hosts of the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations.

Suspected militant Islamists killed at least 28 people during an assault on a large town and village in north-eastern Nigeria, witnesses say.

Hearing is a sense that most people take for granted, but if it's damaged or lost, the impairment is practically invisible to other people.

Ivorian Lacina Traore's loan spell at Everton from Monaco could be cut short if it the clubs decide he needs surgery on an injured leg.

A suicide car bomb explodes in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, killing at least 12 people in an attack targeting the security forces.

Photos of a family's flight from South Sudan and their refugee life

Images from North Africa and the Middle East