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Egyptian court also confirms 37 death sentences over second policeman killed in Minya

China is giving less for charity despite a large number of billionaires.

Investigation begins into midnight fire accident at Sharrow, Sheffield.

Former deputy PM is the country's new leader while Ivica Dacic becomes foreign minister

Captain Thomas Clarke, Warrant Officer Spencer Faulkner, Corporal James Walters, Flight Lieutenant Rakesh Chauhan and Lance Corporal Oliver Thomas died when their Lynx helicopter crashed.

Scotland Yard have said the new finding gives hope in the search for Madeleine who disappeared seven years ago.

A series of celebrations held in South Africa to commemorate the country's first ever multiracial democratic elections in 1994

Police allegedly attacked woman in Paris police HQ.

Protesters claim they seized TV station to give pro-Russians a 'voice'

Experts say bones found under the driveway of a south London home date between 670 and 775 AD

Around 2,000 demonstrators clashed with police as protesters attempt to block planned march by far-right NDP

Man reportedly began torturing his wife only days after their marriage

Despite army presence in notorious favelas, gun battles rage

Around 3,000 demonstrators stage anti-government protests in Caracas and several other cities in Venezuela.

Abbas is still "forging a pact with Holocaust deniers" says Israel

Comments of a high-level committee of North Korea follow Obama's visit to South Korea.

Police and shopkeepers count cost as rival marches disrupt town

Rise of concrete as a building material made politicians think like kings, says academic

Pope Francis I leads Mass before huge crowd of pilgrims including 100 foreign dignitaries

Matt Lockley arrested in Bali Airport after drunk behaviour prompts hijack scare

As canonisation of Popes John Paul II and John XXIII takes place, how do you get the prefix St before your name?

Prime minister apologises to people for the April 16 ferry tragedy in which hundreds of people, mostly school children, died.

106,000 people pledged their support for Stephen Sutton's charity appeal to raise funds for The Teenage Cancer Trust.

A former student of the teacher said three of her friends had committed suicide after being molested by Vahey.

South Korean authorities arrest four further Sewol crew members charged with criminal negligence

Mother appeared in court on Friday accused of three counts of murder

Chinese officials are offering Xinjiang citizens up to £4,750 to report people with long beards or women wearing veils

No clear winner between Abdullah Abdullah and Ashraf Ghani at polls means election goes to run-off next month

Paulo Malhaes admitted torturing political dissidents during 20-year military rule in Brazil