FEATURE

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.

German counter-extremism expert Bernd Wagner tells IBTimes UK that views which inspired Holocaust are still prevalent in Germany today.

Burns Night, anniversary of the birth of Scottish poet Robert Burns, is celebrated on 25 January.

Former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill died on 24th January 1965

Meyler tells us how she helped fight Ebola in Liberia's capital Monrovia and became a Time Person of the Year.

Saudi Arabia has one of the worst human rights records in the world.

France's far-right Front National party has been thrown into chaos by a video which equates Islam to Nazism.

Page 3 of The Sun newspaper will no longer show pictures of topless women after 44 years of running the feature.

January New Moon, first supermoon or perigee-syzygy of 2015, will occur on 20 January

Saeed is the new head of IS Khorasan - but what do we know about the man charged with creating a Caliphate on the sub-continent?

McAfee tells us about Belize, aliens, and life on the run - but is it all real?

19 January, third Monday of January, is Blue Monday 2015 according to academic Cliff Arnall.

While air pollution will keep Barack Obama mostly indoors during his India visit, the environment ministry refuses to acknowledge vehicular pollution.

IBTimes UK looks at Winnie the Pooh author AA Milne's involvement in the First World War.

An example of this "Silk Road" is the container rail freight service between Duisburg, Germany and Chongqing with a major rail/road container service centre at Xi'an's "Inland Port"

Great Hanshin earthquake, or Kobe earthquake, struck Hyogo prefecture in Japan on 17 January 1995.

Martin Luther King Jr. Day and the 1960s Civil Rights Movement will be celebrated on Monday 19 January 2015

IBTimes UK looks at how atheists are received in American society and politics on Religious Freedom Day.

Albinos are often killed as their body parts are used in black magic potions to bring good luck.

Sport England launched the This Girl Can campaign to get women involved in sport and exercise.

Entertainment reporter Toyin Owoseje rounds up the showbiz stories of the week.

United Nations Barbershop Conference on women's rights will be held in New York on 14 and 15 January

With the furore that broke out over Cadbury changing their creme eggs, we try them out to see if they taste any different.

IBTimes UK shows which bus routes are not affected by the strike and which bus services are running.

Orthodox Christians in Belarus, Serbia and Macedonia celebrate the New Year on 13 and 14 January.