Dilma Rousseff has had to leave the presidency of Brazil while the Senate puts her on trial on...
Turks get visa-free access to Europe - perhaps
Turks were this week offered a date for being able to enter European countries without a visa....
Within minutes of people starting to die at Hillsborough, a campaign of lies and dissimulation...
Ukraine plots a new way forward
The new government in Ukraine is going to need to give a lot of thought to the many difficult...
Obama points to how Saudis must change
President Obama visited Saudi Arabia at a time when its reputation has rarely been lower. The...
One big message emerges from the Panama papers data-leak: that however hard you try, your most...
Syria drives IS out of Palmyra
The world watched in horror as so-called Islamic State seized and then started destroying the...
The week when terror came to Brussels
In The World This Week we look behind the Brussels bombings with our security correspondent, and...
Putin brings his boys home from Syria
Russian troops have started coming home from Syria. They've made big gains for Mr Putin, with the...
EU and Turkey try to keep the migrants out
The EU is trying to persuade Turkey to stop migrants fleeing to Europe. Turkey is demanding a...
Lots of Republican leaders agree that Donald Trump absolutely mustn't be their candidate in the...
New peace deal offers hope to Syria
You may think we've been here before. But the latest deal for a pause in at least some of the...
Britain's prime minister has secured a deal from his European Union partners after two days of...
Washington announces the first trip by a sitting US president to Cuba since 1928. What does it...
Syria peace: what Russia & Turkey want
The Syria peace talks, and possible peace deal (let's see), show that two of the biggest players...
Bernie Sanders suprised many observers by running Hillary Clinton breathtakingly close in Iowa....
The virus that terrifies Brazil
Zika has swept through parts of Brazil, and the fear that it's causing babies to be born with...
Not much shelter from market chaos
It was a grim outlook for financial markets world-wide -- stocks lost billions of dollars, as oil...
Iran: the work of exporting oil to the world resumes
With sanctions about to be lifted, Iran is preparing to start exporting oil to the world again....
Diplomatic tension remains high between Saudi Arabia and Iran after a Shia cleric was executed in...