Protests call for closure of Guantanamo Bay as 107 detainees remain in camp.
Madaya's suffering citizens have been forced to eat grass and pets to survive.
Louis Vuitton files lawsuit against three Chinese online counterfeiters.
Crimes include rape, child sex, grooming and attempted murder.
Rob Lawrie may serve a maximum of five years jail for attempting to smuggle a girl to her relatives in Leeds.
The message remains 'that the pencil has not beaten out the Kalashnikov,' says Israeli cartoonist Roy Friedler.
Raed Fares and Hadi al-Abdallah were taken hostage from their office in Idlib province.
While the big four have lost in Christmas sales, discounters Aldi and Lidl gained over the festive period.
The winning Mega Millions ticket was bought in Willowbrook Deli on Staten Island.
Kevin Hurley criticises lack of policing at so-called 'jungle' camp in northern France.
Will marshals allow supporters to deliver 80 'wish list' items to millitant occupiers at Malheur Wildlife Refuge?
Drones converted into flying bombs could potentially target nuclear power stations.
The messages were kicked off with an initial tweet that read: 'Here we...here we...here we f*****g go!!!'
The actress pleaded with the drug lord in 2012 to 'do good'.
Journalists and media houses are targets of threats, bribes and violence ahead of presidential polls.
Voters cannot make informed decisions as independent groups face renewed threats, activists claim
IBTimes UK looks at the main events shaping the African country on the brink of change.
Angela Merkel cancels trip to Davos World Economic Forum as reports continue to fuel anti-immigrant furor.
Bad-boy actor skewered for granting El Chapo article approval rights.
A group of five men took turns raping an 18-year-old woman on 7 January.
The teenager survived her terrifying ordeal to identify her attackers and now calls for capital punishment
Naji Jerf, director for Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently was shot by a silenced pistol in Gaziantep
The 24-year-old was apprehended in the Atlanta suburb of Smyrna.
Pro-Assad trolls hijack hashtag used to highlight plight of starving residents.
Ball was given a 32-month prison sentence in October 2015 after admitting he abused 18 young men.
Fence designed to reduced a predicted million-plus refugees trying to enter the Balkans later this year.
Some 105 high-profile Anglicans calling for message to be taken to meeting of global Anglican Communion.
Abaaoud is believed to have met UK jihadists in London and Birmingham and took photos of UK landmarks.
The right-hand man of Daesh leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi reportedly killed during air strike in Barwana.
She is accused of being an accomplice to her husband's alleged embezzlement of €5.6m.