FEATURE

Soviet lieutenant Lyudmila Pavlichenko was the most successful female sniper in history.

IBTimes UK investigates whether Britain's railways should return to public hands.

On World Cancer Day, observed annually on 4 February, women need to discuss breast cancer.

British MPs will vote whether to allow three-parent babies or mitochondrial donation

The rising number of measles patients in US has been linked to a single outbreak, caused by a lack of vaccination among some children.

Journalist Peter Greste has been freed but Mohamed Fahmy and Baher Mohamed remain in Cairo prison.

Groundhog Day, dating back to 1887, is celebrated on 2 February in the United States and Canada.

Celebrations are held by pagan communities on 1 February to observe the astronomical midpoint between Winter Solstice and Spring Equinox.

Here's the lineup of the trailers rumoured to be featuring during this Sunday's Super Bowl.

Dozens of women and girls flee to IS territories sparking fears of a rise in female terrorists.

The leader of South African apartheid government's C1 death squad has been in prison for 20 years.

Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated by Nathuram Godse on 30 January 1948.

Gandhi, India's Father of the Nation, was assassinated by Nathuram Godse on 30 January 1948.

Ginny Porowski invented GoGown to reduce contagion and waste disposal

Comet Lovejoy, C/2014 Q2, discovered in 2014, will make its closest approach to the sun on 30 January.

The effectiveness of treatment programmes for sex offenders can be hard to assess

Sociologist Frank Furedi says a 'disorientation in society' is to blame for sex becoming detached from relationships.

BBC documentary explores whether author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, pen name Lewis Carroll, was a paedophile

Oxfam launches post-Ebola Marshall Plan to help countries recover economically after outbreak.

Key events before and since Litvinenko was poisoned using polonium-210, as public inquiry begins

Bernd Koschland fled Germany to the UK in 1939 as an eight year old boy in the Kindertransport mission.

Vodafone has so far been a wallflower at the telco mergers party but could Talk Talk be its partner?

Republic Day marks the date on which Constitution of India came into force on 26 January 1950.

Prisoners were forced to walk miles in freezing conditions during the brutal death marches.

Australia Day marks the anniversary of the arrival of convict ships from UK in 1788

Burns mythographers are uncomfortable about the fact this champion of social justice applied to work as a 'negro driver' on a Jamaica plantation.

IBTimes UK looks at the story of Ravensbrück concentration camp on Holocaust Memorial Day

Holocaust Memorial Day 2015 marks the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest Nazi death camp

IBTimes UK looks at stories of Witold Pilecki, Miep Gies and other unsung heroes of the Holocaust.