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Of the 1.2 million refugees and migrants who applied for asylum in Europe in 2015, nearly 350,000 were children.

In 1986, NASA's Space Challenger launched from the Kennedy Space Center, exploding 73 seconds later due to technical malfunctions

Performances by exotic animals were banned by Chinese government in 2012 but the ruling had little effect.

Svalbard hopes to attract winter tourists with dog sled rides, ice caves and the northern lights.

French farmers are demonstrating against falling prices of produce by flooding streets with milk and littering the highways with hay

Brazil is facing a surging number of babies born with abnormally small heads.

The curfew bars residents from leaving their homes, and prevents journalists and observers from witnessing the fighting.

The dolls are thought to invite benevolent spirits to possess them, with the hope that they will bring good luck, wealth and protection from harm.

Storm of the century batters US east coast residents leaving billions of dollars of damage in its wake.

Elderly survivors return to the former Nazi concentration and extermination camp on International Holocaust Memorial Day.

The annual Up Helly Aa festival concludes with the burning of a replica Viking longboat.

Homes in Pacifica, California are falling into the sea. We look at other collapsing buildings worldwide.

Camels are dressed up for a beauty pageant before battling it out in a fight.

Nationwide festivities took place on 26 January with colourful parades, traditional dances and stunt shows.

Taxi drivers who do not require an app for services protest against what they consider unfair competition

Of the 50 artists featured in Art from the Holocaust, 24 were murdered by the Nazis.

Sources have confirmed that all three were dead before they reached the shore.

A cold weather front swept across China and much of eastern Asia, bringing heavy snow, freezing fog and record low temperatures.

Millions of Hindus celebrate the festival of Thaipusam across south-east Asia

Police fire tear gas and water cannon to disperse hundreds of young protesters, during the second day of riots.

There's a new kid on the block: Fusilier Llywelyn, the Royal Welsh's new regimental goat.

Five years ago, on 25 January 2011, anti-government protests began across Egypt, publicised on social media.

A unique insight into the daily routine of Japanese Macaques who reside in the valleys of the Yokoyu-River during the winter months.

2015 was the most violent year on record in El Salvador, with a 70% increase in murders from the previous year.

Photographer Matt Cardy captures Bath on a particularly icy morning – as weather conditions plunge across the UK

You can stay at Tobolsk prison castle, from which nobody ever escaped and where thousands of enemies of the state were executed.

George Georgiou travelled across London on buses, photographing the fleeting scenes he spotted on the streets outside the windows.

Every year on St Sebastian's day, in Piornal, villagers throw turnips at a man dressed up as a creature known as Jarramplas.

The lifting of sanctions on Iran as a result of its nuclear deal with world powers could result in a huge tourism boom.