PICTURES

Should you kiss on the first date? Yes – if you are a pygmy hippo.

Roads have been closed across the city, and flags have been put at half mast as people lay pay their respects.

Photo of volcano erupting wins 13th annual Smithsonian magazine photo contest, with entries from 168 countries

IBTimes UK looks back at key events in the life of Fidel Castro and the relationship between the former Cold War foes.

Suicide bombers detonated at Brussels Zaventem airport, causing multiple deaths and injuries.

A new book features 80 old black-and-white photos of Paris superimposed on the same scenes today.

The winners of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) science photography competition.

In Spain, Holy Week, or Semana Santa, is the most important religious period of the year, with processions featuring hooded figures.

Nowruz marks the arrival of spring and is celebrated in countries that use the Persian calendar.

The spectacular celebration in Valencia consists of giant mechanisms, gunpowder, street performances and music

This year's World Water Day focuses on how quantity and quality of water can change workers' lives and livelihoods.

Here are the Top 10 universities with highest rankings in Times survey.

Ten percent of the world's population do not have access to safe water, putting them at risk of infectious diseases and premature death.

Eight-year-old Shaharzad Hassan from Aleppo in Syria has drawn a series of pictures depicting her family's plight and their long journey to Europe.

The concrete bunker covers 8,700 square metres with 300m of tunnels.

AFP photojournalist Olivier Morin spent 10 days photographing surfers in the freezing water off the Lofoten archipelago, and was rewarded with several sightings of the northern lights (aurora borealis).

The Torlonia collection comprises 620 statues and sculptures.

Men and women in Uttar Pradesh state celebrate spring with the Hindu festival of Lathmar Holi.

Students in Paris and other French cities clash with police during protests against proposed labour reforms.

President's appointment of Lula as chief of staff was meant to protect him from prosecution.

Burundi has been rated the world's least happy country to live in, along with nine other sub-Saharan African countries and Syria, Afghanistan and Yemen.

If you want to be happy, move to a cold European country. That seems to be the message sent out by the 2016 World Happiness Report.

The UN drugs agency estimates that Southeast Asia's trade in heroin and methamphetamine is worth £22 billion.

Judges have chosen the best photos from 60 countries. Which is your favourite?

The Al Zaatari refugee camp has seen nearly 80 newborns a week since its establishment in 2012.

As Russia withdraws most of its troops from Syria, we look back at one of the most savage civil wars in recent history.

Hundreds of refugees and migrants who had been stranded in northern Greece are crossing into neighbouring Macedonia.

The conflict has affected more than 80 percent of Syria's children, including 7 million who now live in poverty

Thousands stranded on Greek-Macedonia border face weather misery as fields become huge puddles.