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The Museum of West African Art (Mowaa) and the row over Nigeria’s Benin Bronzes

Todah OpeyemiBBC Africa, Benin City AFP/Getty Images Guests and dignitaries looked on as protesters stormed the Museum of West African

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Shutdown could reduce US flights ‘to a trickle’, transport secretary warns

EPA/ Shutterstock Flight delays and cancellations continue to snarl US air travel for a third day as Transportation Secretary Sean

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Peru congress declares Mexican president ‘persona non grata’

Peru’s Congress has voted to declare Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum as persona non grata – or unwelcome in the country.

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Worker dies after partial collapse of medieval tower in Rome

A worker who was trapped after part of a medieval tower collapsed in the heart of Rome, has died, according

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Desperation in Black River, Jamaica, after Hurricane Melissa

Brandon Drenonin Black River, Jamaica Watch: BBC reports from “ground zero” of Hurricane Melissa’s destruction People walk along muddied roads

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Australian girls ‘hunted’ by online gangs to commit violent acts

Australian girls are being hunted by online crime networks and coerced into acts of violence – against themselves, their siblings

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BBC correspondents on the wins and potential losses

AFP via Getty Images The visit includes a much-awaited meeting between Donald Trump and Xi Jinping US President Donald Trump

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US forces kill two in strike on alleged drug boat in the Pacific

US forces have struck another vessel alleged to be carrying drugs, this time in the waters of the Pacific Ocean,

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Shrapnel hits cars on California highway during Marines celebration

Ana Faguy and Christal HayesLos Angeles California Highway Patrol Officers took photos of the damage from shrapnel that they said

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Venezuelan fishermen in fear after US strikes on boats in the Caribbean

Gustavo Ocando AlexReporting from Maracaibo, Venezuela for BBC News Mundo Gustavo Ocando Alex Wilder Fernández is a young fisherman in