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China's Global Times' opinion piece urges Beijing to reinforce its navy.

Concerns tensions and late licensing laws will spark unrest in country ahead of historic poll.

Astonishingly successful evidence of trepanation, a highly risky head trauma treatment has come to light.

The young girls are being offered money for each child born to them along with other benefits.

Israel must adopt new strategy - based on belief that Palestinian and Israeli lives are worth the same.

Two men have died after the helicopter they were flying crashed off the coast of east Yorkshire

Details revealed about the care Michael Schumacher is receiving at home from dedicated team.

One suspect had links with banned French Islamist group Forsane Alizza

Former business analyst, now known as Abu A'ntaar, takes up arms against 'corporations'.

NGOs fear government's decision might threaten aid programmes

Palestinian survivors confirm vessel carrying 500 was deliberately sunk by traffickers after dispute.

Vladimir Evtushenkov under house arrest on suspicion of money laundering.

Video captures moment man pulled a crazy stunt to reclaim car from tow truck.

Debate urging Scotland to grant NSA whistleblower asylum could reignite if country votes 'Yes'

Increasingly concentrated urban populations in areas prone to hazards is one cause.

There's only one day before millions of Scots go to vote for or against independence.

IBTimes speaks to members of the Middle East's LGBT community to hear about the hardships they endure on a daily basis.

Ebola survivor Dr. Kent Brantly has called the outbreak 'a fire straight from the pit of hell,' at a US Senate Panel, and has urged the Obama administration to step up the 'sluggish' response to the crisis.

Forensics believe Hannah Witheridge had sex before her death and may have fought off attacker.

Opposition accused Assad's regime of contaminating the vaccines that killed the children

A survey by charity Refuge and ITV's Loose Women finds 37% UK women have experienced domestic abuse.

Man named locally as Christopher was staying with David Miller on Thai island Koh Tao.

Watch the vigilante biker girl in action.

Increasing its estimate of funds required to control the outbreak by ten times over last month's figure, WHO warns of a human catastrophe from Ebola outbreak.

Houston chemistry teacher found in possession of date-rape drug recipes in her backpack.

University of Leicester researchers reveal King Richard III's cause of death at Battle of Bosworth

US president Barack Obama has branded the deadly Ebola outbreak "a threat to global security' and announced that the US will play a larger role in combatting the virus.

Joseph Oberhansley is reported to have broken into his ex-fiancée, Tammy Jo Blanton's house and stabbed her to death - before eating portions of her heart, lungs and brain.

A 67-year-old gunman killed a lawyer in a Copenhagen courthouse and seriously wounded the father of his three-year-old grandchild in a reported family dispute.