The measure now requires approval from the House if lawmakers are to succeed at fully reopening the government.

Envoys from the two countries met in Washington as the fragile truce was due to expire on Sunday.

Across the UK, shopfronts are being exploited by criminal gangs pushing illegal drugs, experts say.

BBC Sport senior football correspondent Sami Mokbel analyses a summer that promises plenty of change in the Premier League.

A toddler has been melting hearts talking excitedly about cows with her dad in her Welsh accent.

A mysterious 5,000-year-old decision led directly to how we still count time today.

In the middle of the 1960s rock revolution, a jazz trumpeter smashed chart records and briefly became bigger than the Beatles. Now aged 91, Herb Alpert talks to the BBC.

Moving "from the slums to the exclusive salons", Brassaï captured the brothels, gay bars and backstreets of Paris's hazy night-time in its radical inter-war years.

As the Mother Road celebrates its centenary, Indigenous voices are revealing overlooked histories and creating new ways for travellers to experience the road.

From Japan to Argentina to the US, nations around the world have put their own stamp on the mouthwatering meat – making beef a destination in itself.

The amount of green space for wildflowers in the UK has shrunk amid the rise of modern agriculture. But wildflowers are thriving where other plants can't – cities.

Philip Palumbo, CEO of Palumbo Wealth Management, says investors expect volatility as the Iran war drags on.