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Elderly priest hailed as 'man of peace' who remained loyal to Syrian people in besieged city.

Gun which fires using electromagnetic energy to be tested at sea in 2016.

Pistorius tells murder trial Steenkamp thought Samantha Taylor was abusing her on Twitter

Best photos of the day: 8 April 2014

Jewish Home MK claims Border Police West Bank operation was in retaliation for price-tag attack against IDF jeep

Police believe suspect may have taken his own life.

Thomas Cohen, singer and musician, married Peaches Geldof at a church in Davington in 2012.

Real life Barbie wannabe would rather be tortured to death than have children

Coroner looking to find out what Peaches Geldof died from.

Artists unveil huge poster of child's face killed in drone attack.

BREAKING: Teenage mother from Forest Hill, south London, also pleads guilty to cruelty in relation to two other children.

Russians with cancer have a right to live without the indignity of treatable pain - but they suffer neglect at every level.

Nii-Azu Kojo-Smith receives 18-year sentence for stabbing Liam Woodards in gang fight after yoghurt pot was thrown

IBtimesUK looks at current Mexico's most wanted drug lord.

Runner accused of murdering girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp claims he was trying to save victim from violent mob.

Hailed as 'strongest national radical party' in Europe, Jobbik has shed its anti-Semitic and anti-Roma stance

Bladerunner's 'exhausted' condition noted by judge at trial.

Pro-Russian activists in eastern Ukraine have proclaimed independence.

The two British tourists reportedly drowned in the sea off Tenerife after trying to rescue their children.

A Buckingham Palace guard pointed his rifle at a would-be intruder - but what other security breaches have occurred?

Feroz Khan and Fuad Awale to serve extra six years after attempting Islamic uprising at HMP Full Sutton

The epidemic may wipe out the Ayoreo-Totobiegosode tribe from Paraguay's Chaco region.

European and UK police dismantle forced prostitution ring in Italy.

Court drama as Pistorius speaks for first time and reveals he still smells Steenkamp's blood in his nostrils

World Health Day 2014 theme is vector-borne diseases carried by mosquitoes, sandflies, bugs, ticks and snails.

German police concerned popular Sesame Street character being used by far right to appeal to children

Diplomat found with three boys aged between nine and twelve in Manila resort.

Brave priest who refused to leave besieged Syrian city had launched desperate appeal to save population from starvation.

Dramatic scenes as Pistorius takes to the witness stand in murder trial at North Gauteng High Court.