Queen Elizabeth II collects 18% pay rise and payout of £16m from Duchy of Lancaster estate
Accounts posted online for the year ending March 2014 show record profits from Duchy.
China: Two-child policy planned to tackle greying population
China might soon ease its decades long one-child policy due to the looming demographic concerns.
California man found dead in car with 1200 weapons at home believed he was a spy
Jeffrey Alan Lash's body was found by police on 17 July.
Westminster paedophile scandal: Boys from Kincora were 'playthings for powerful people'
Survivor from Kincora Boys's Home believes documents in Westminster shows Government linked in child abuse in Northern Ireland.
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London's junior jihadis: Hampstead primary school pupil investigated by terror experts
Fleet Primary School pupil as young as 11 under review by government's Channel project.
Scandal-plagued HSBC's UK chief to head influential group at financial regulator
Despite scandals, including forex fixing, HSBC head will represent financial industry at UK's FCA regulator.
Northern Ireland: Judge orders teenage cannabis-smoker to sketch him in court as punishment
District Judge Barney McElholm told 16 year old to spend three days as unofficial court sketch artist.
China: Man jumps off bridge three times to cure his depression [video]
Chinese TV footage shows man take plunge multiple times into Xiang River in country's Guizhou province.
Libya: Scores killed in ethnic clashes for control of south's people-trafficking routes
Smuggling has become rampant in Libya's anarchic south in recent years
British Army: Digital 'smart' tank deal will create 250 jobs in South Wales
Military hardware firm General Dynamics wins £390m contract to build the light tank in Wales.
UN: Russian FA should do more to tackle racism
Russian football authorities need to do more to combat racism and currently don't fully understand what it means.
Isis: Turkish soldier killed by gunfire from Islamic State occupied Syria
Turkish elite troops were deployed in southern province of Kilis.
Kenya: Barack Obama's ancestral village upset by US President's snub [Photo report]
The residents of Obama's ancestral village – and Africans in general – expected more from this US president.
Guantanamo Bay: White House planning closure of controversial prison camp
White House press secretary Josh Earnest has confirmed that the plan to shut the prison is being drafted.
Turkey: PKK kill third policeman in Suruc suicide bombing revenge ambush in Diyarbakir
PKK claimed murder of two policemen in retaliation for Suruc suicide attack that killed 32 young socialists
Margareta Pagano: Town councils need to get serious about saving the UK high street
40,000 shops stand empty and less than half of all shopping now takes place on the country's 5,400 high streets.
Kincora Boys' Home: MI5 and the Westminster paedophile ring
Belfast home for troubled boys named in Cabinet Office files on alleged Westminster child sex ring.
Nigeria: President Buhari warns that US arms ban supports Boko Haram
Leahy Law forbids US from funding foreign military units that commit human rights violations with impunity
Burundi unrest: Pattern of police brutality and impunity 'must end' warns Amnesty
Police and Imbonerakure – the youth wing of Nkurunziza's party – accused of abuses against protesters.
FBI: Independence Day terror plot shows Isis bigger threat to US civilians than al-Qaeda
FBI director James Comey confirmed that 4 July terror plots had been foiled.
Ukraine: Pro-Russia separatists use fake Battlefield 3 Stinger missiles to accuse US of weapon supply
Video from pro-Russian rebels claims to have found US-made weapons in Ukraine government airport - but typos reveal it's fake
France: Farmers block roads and dump manure outside banks and supermarkets [Photo report]
Protesting farmers barricade roads, dump manure outside banks and set fire to rubbish outside supermarkets.
A bridge too far: Dutch car driver spectacularly fails to jump bridge and ends up in river
CCTV footage shows impatient motorist plummet into river after misjudging a bridge crossing.
Guatemala: Archaeologists uncover intact Mayan hieroglyphic panels
Ancient Mayan panels dating as far back as the seventh century have been discovered.
Beijing: Indomitable '300 Spartans' give in to Chinese police
Westerners dressed as Spartan warriors from Hollywood movie detained for disrupting public order.
North Korea orders factories and schools to open at 5am to beat summer heat
North Korean workers and students find it difficult to cope with the 'sambok schedule.'
Sandra Bland informed jail officers she was 'depressed and attempted suicide before'
US woman whose death in Texas prompted an investigation told guard she had previously attempted to take her own life
Anzac Day: UK's 'youngest ever terror suspect' admits Isis-inspired beheading plot
A 15-year-old from Blackburn admits inciting beheading-style terror attack at Anzac Day parade in Australia.
Iran nuclear deal: Why aren't we talking about Iranian human rights abuses?
Iran has a dire record of jailing and executing political dissidents and Kurdish activists
Wolverhampton Second World War veteran says Mitsubishi prisoner apology is 'not enough'
George Hill, 89, from Codsall has criticised Japanese car manufacturer Mitsubishi.
Israeli soldiers shoot dead second Palestinian in 24 hours
Falah Abu Maria killed during botched arrest in Beit Ummar, north of Hebron
South Africa: Google Street View captures moment security guard is hijacked at gunpoint
Images show Johannesburg ADT guard dragged out of his patrol vehicle by two men, one armed with a handgun
Dark Justice: Paedophile Stephen Short trapped by vigilante 13-year-old girl honeypot
Paedophile brought wine and Viagra believing he was meeting a 13-year-old girl
India: 16 cobra hatchlings rescued from Mumbai couple's home
The couple have packed up all their belongings and have moved to another wing of the same government quarters.
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