From manmade, moveable islands to an entire town built in a meteorite crater, these are some of the strangest ways in which people have adapted their settlements to Mother Nature.
Dozens of hostages seized by Islamic State (IS) from the Turkish consulate in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul have been freed and are back in Turkey. The 49 were taken to the southern Turkish city of Sanliurfa, officials say, and are now in Ankara
Their 70ft boat was one of 25 which capsized when the hurricane hit, says BBC Los Angeles correspondent Alastair Leithead. Mr Whitehouse has been working as a scuba instructor in La Paz for a year. Both he and Ms Wood are thought to be in their 40s
Earlier today we noted that the BBC's coverage of the Scottish referendum in independence today was terrible. The United Kingdom is on the verge of tearing itself apart, a rift that hasn't been seen since the Irish revolution ledÂ
What happens when an aircraft is no longer needed? In the desert dry of the south-western US, vast 'boneyard' are homes to thousands of aircraft.