US teenager accused of live streaming rape of her 17-year-old friend on Periscope
Marina Lonina,18, and Raymond Boyd Gates, 29, from Ohio charged with rape and other offences.
Isis claims attack on Philippines Army which left 23 dead after 'detonating 7 trucks'
Isis say they planned the devastating attack on Basilan Island which left 3 of their own militants dead
Culture Secretary John Whittingdale admits to relationship with escort
The MP said that he met the woman on dating site Match.com in September 2013.
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff accuses vice-president Michel Temer of 'plotting coup'
Rousseff faces impeachment over allegations she changed deficit figures ahead of 2014 election.
Over a third of British Muslims believe Jews talk too much about the Holocaust says new poll
The poll of British Muslims was conducted by ICM with analysis by the Campaign Against Anti-Semitism.
6 senior Afghan commanders defect from Isis back to Taliban because Daesh 'brutal and inhuman'
The insurgents switched their allegiance saying Isis too interested in beheadings.
Boko Haram demand £40m for return of 219 kidnapped Chibok student girls
The Isis-linked extremists took 276 female students hostage from a boarding school in 2014.
Minnesota Burger King staff tricked into smashing windows of restaurants in spate of prank calls
Staff were told the windows had to be smashed to "relieve pressure" or the restaurant could explode.
Dubai to build $1bn Babylon-inspired tower taller than the Burj Khalifa
Tower to feature a minaret-style design and rotating balconies with final height to be confirmed.
Brussels attack: Who is Osama Krayem the jihadi from Malmo arrested with 'Man in the Hat'?
The naturalised Swede from Malmo had used a fake passport to regain entry to Europe.
Isis-linked Abu Sayyaf militants in the Philippines kill at least 18 soldiers in day of heavy fighting
Gun battle took place on Basilan Island and left another 52 soldiers wounded.
Court stops UK press identifying celebrity who had a threesome in olive oil-filled pool
Injunction prevents the celebrity's name being published in the UK, despite being named by a US magazine.
Ukip activist dubbed 'stupid' by his own party after blacking-up on Facebook
Jack Neill, from Hamilton in Scotland, posed in the bath with a blacked-up face 'for entertainment'.
Austria to seize house where Adolf Hitler was born to stop it becoming a neo-Nazi shrine
Hitler was born in the quaint three-storey house, in the town of Braunau am Inn, on 20 April 1889.
Samantha Cameron used taxpayer cash to pay ex-model 'fashion advisor' £53k a year
Samantha Cameron allegedly pays the 'special advisor' to organise her social diary and wardrobe.
Western Isles: 2 dead and 1 still missing after fishing boat sinks off the coast of the Outer Hebrides
One of the crew was rescued by a coastguard helicopter from Stornaway and taken to hospital.
Shane Tunney 'kicked to death' after asking teenagers to stop throwing food at people
The 24-year-old from Norton in Stockton-on-Tees was with a friend when he was attacked on 27 June 2015.
US prosecutors claim ex-US House speaker Dennis Hastert paid millions to boys he abused
Republican Dennis Hastert was second-in-line to presidents Clinton and George W Bush.
Isis expands as new jihadi group Jahba East Africa pledges allegiance to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
The new group comprising Kenyans, Tanzanians and Ugandans is believed to have links to al-Shabaab.
Former Auschwitz guard Ernst Tremmel dies days before his trial in Germany
The 93-year-old was accused of helping to deport prisoners from Nazi transit camps when he was 19.
Mum found guilty of stamping 21-month-old daughter Ayeeshia Smith to death in Burton upon Trent
Smith died with injuries likened to that of a car crash victim on 1 May 2014
New pirate epidemic looms as terrorism, drought and foreign trawlers strangle Somalian fisherman
The once-pirate ridden Gulf of Aden has enjoyed relative peace for the last 5 years but this may all change
Police hunt for Anthony Garver after torturer escapes from Washington mental hospital
Mark Adams, 58, also escaped but was picked up without incident 25 miles from the hospital.
Venezuela: President Nicolas Maduro declares every Friday a holiday to save electricity
Maduro also urged Venezuelans to restrict their use of appliances, including hair dryers and irons.
Missing PC Gordon Semple: Man arrested as human remains found in Southwark, London
PC Gordon Semple from Greenhithe in Kent had been missing since 1 April after visiting The Shard.
Life under Isis: Families used as human shield, fined because of beard length and forced labour
An Iraqi refugee has spoken about the horrors of life under the Isis Caliphate after escaping.
US executes Texas 'Vampire Killer' Pablo Lucio Vasquez who drank blood of 12-year-old victim
Vasquez murdered, dismembered and drank the blood of David Cardenas in April 1998 in Donna, Texas
Man bludgeons 82-year-old to death then takes his car and uses his bank card in JD Sports
Raymond Sykes attacked his former neighbour, Arthur Walters-Girout, but says it was an act of mercy,
Family of Isis-executed Palmyra archeologist Khaled al-Asaad recall his defiant final moments
Mr Palmyra was murdered for refusing to tell Isis the location of the site's treasures.
New Isis video shows grim life under jihadist rule for gays and the destruction of churches
Named 'The Voice of Virtue in Deterring Hell' it shows religious police implementing Sharia Law.
