POLITICS

After a year of ups and downs, Vladimir Putin starts 2014 by sending New Year's wishes to Barack Obama.

Exiled opponent to president Paul Kagame found dead in South African hotel.

Teenage girl hailing from Kolkata suburb raped and burnt alive after she complained to police about first sexual assault.

President Salva Kiir and his former deputy Riek Machar due to meet in Ethiopia.

Fighting breaks out in Bor as African Union warns of sanctions if violence persists.

Freed prisoners arrive in West Bank and Gaza to cheers as US Secretary of State John Kerry prepares to visit Middle East.

Gunmen attack German ambassador Wolfgang Dold's home in the Greek capital.

West Brom striker says 'inverted Nazi salute' in West Ham game was 'anti-system'.

Supporters of Prophet of the Eternal Paul Joseph Mukungubila stormed state TV building in Kinshasa.

Volgograd suicide bomber had been widowed twice with Islamist husbands killed in attacks.

Blast on trolleybus at busy marketplace in Dzerzhinsky district labelled terror attack and follows previous day's explosion.

IBTimes UK recalls the lives and achievements of those who died in 2013.

Ahead of second round of Geneva talks, Syrian president tells Pope there should be no foreign intervention.

UK Power Networks raises standard compensation from £27 to £75 after criticism of slow response.

Muslim Brotherhood supporters shot at by police outside Al-Anzhar university.

Federal judge rules US constitution permits surveillance revealed by whistle-blower Edward Snowden - but more legal challenges expected.

One killed and four injured as gunman opens fire during Bangkok protests.

Thai military chief Prayuth Chan-ocha does not rule out coup against interim PM.

Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alekhina determined they still want Putin out.

Group of 100 Iranian MPs call for further uranium enrichment if Geneva deal fails.

Ethiopian PM and Kenyan president hold talks with South Sudan president Salva Kiir as fresh fighting breaks out in Upper Nile state .

Protesters try to storm venue of meeting between election commissioners and candidates.

Visit shows Shinzo Abe's intent to push country to militarism, says China, amid Japan's concern over Chinese moves in East China Sea.

Explosion in Doura town in Iraqi capital kills Christians during Christmas celebrations.

Liberia, Abyei, Democratic Republic of Congo and Ivory Coast to contribute additional troops.

Mass grave containing 75 bodies found in Unity state as US prepares to avoid repeat of Benghazi disaster.

Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alekhina meet at Krasnoyarsk's Yemelyanovo airport

President Park Geun-hye vows 'stern and merciless' action amid Korean peninsula tensions.

Prime minister and powerful cleric at odds over graft probe.