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The Grande Hotel da Beira was once the largest and most luxurious hotel on the African continent.

Eurovision has seen singing grannies, a bearded lady, a rock band dressed as monsters, and a singer being carried onto the stage by a giant.

Showing at Somerset House from 19-22 May, the exhibition will show the works of galleries large and small.

Founded by Prince Harry, the Paralympic-style event is hailed for its support of service members.

Photos show scenes of utter devastation, with homes levelled to the ground and street after street reduced to nothing more than blackened foundations.

Thousands of Confederates fled the southern United States and moved to Brazil after the end of the US Civil War.

Victory Day saw hundreds of people come to various Soviet memorials in Berlin to pay their respects.

To mark the 75th anniversary of the end of the bombing campaign, IBTimes UK presents composite images showing bombed areas of London during the Blitz, merged with the same scenes today.

Demonstrators storm the streets of Greek capital and other areas, demanding new reforms should not go ahead.

From a chessboard to football stadiums, the former Polish minor and ironworker creates delicate sculptures in his flat in Ruda Slaska, Poland.

Foreign journalists visiting North Korea to cover its Seventh Workers' Party Congress were denied access.

Award-winning photographer Kevin Frayer travelled to Cangshan in Sichuan province to watch the Jinyuan Opera Company perform.

According to protesters, President Evo Morales promised greater assistance to the country's marginalised before taking office and he has not fulfilled his promise.

A circular glass viewing platform jutting out from the edge of a mountain is the latest of China's glass suspension structures.

The wildfire raging near Fort McMurray in Alberta, Canada, has moved south, forcing more evacuations after 88,000 people fled their homes.

The national day of remembrance lasts for 24 hours and corresponds to the 27th day of Nisan on the Hebrew calendar.

Surrounded by gleaming towers, holdouts decline to move from ramshackle homes in dilapidated area

Aerial photos record landmarks such as the Sydney Opera House and Harbour Bridge, as well as Australians enjoying the great outdoors.

Here are the women who say gender does not keep them from fearing or entering the battle.

Red flags are flying and political posters are going up in Pyongyang as North Korea gets set for the event

The new area of the historic palace includes a secret grotto, colourful turrets and a 25 foot-long sleeping dragon.

IBTimes UK looks back to a different era, when cigarettes were actually advertised as being good for us.

The celebrations saw crosses heavily adorned with flowers paraded throughout the towns.

Gisele Bundchen, Vin Diesel and Tilda Swinton watch Karl Lagerfeld show for Chanel on grand boulevard in Havana.

A 18-foot metal fence – fortified with sensors, lighting, radars and cameras – separates families on opposite sides of the US-Mexican border.

The 198-room building had been condemned by authorities but remained occupied.

Here at IBTimesUK, we've rounded up some of the funniest photos of the outgoing (in more ways than one) Mayor of London.

The theme was Manus x Machina: Fashion in an Age of Technology

Thirty-three lions that were rescued from circuses in Peru and Columbia have been airlifted to the Emoya Big Cat Sanctuary in South Africa.