Schoolteacher killed in shark attack at a popular spearfishing haunt in Australia.
A boy of seven has died and two adults believed to be his parents are in a serious condition after incident in Surrey house.
Officials say a huge boulder rolled down mountainside and derailed passenger train.
Muslim man killed and dismembered by Christian mob in Central African Republic.
Heads believed to belong to collaborators with Knights Templar drugs cartel.
Comical images of President Vladimir Putin appear on social media as Winter Olympics gets underway.
Villagers take Chandre Oraon's vestigial tail as sign he is living embodiment of Hindu god Hanuman.
Britain's first humans, known as Pioneer Man, could have been cannibals who ate their own relatives in a fierce struggle for survival.
Alabama student provokes internet fury by posting selfie with corpse on Instagram.
Spain's Princess Cristina testifies in court investigation of money-laundering and tax-evasion claims.
Hospital staff alert police after baby girl admitted 'unconscious and not breathing'.
Ukrainian airline passenger detained after 'drunken' Sochi hijack attempt.
Apartment and hotel buildings, roads and shopping centres still being constructed.
Three Metropolitan Police officers - including one involved in Plebgate row - under investigation for 'possession and distribution of obscene images'.
NSA collecting less than 30% of Americans' call records following surge in mobile usage.
The Met Office has warned of 'phenomenal' waves more than 45ft high, with winds of up to 80mph.
Health and environmental debate is moot
Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Kozak says surveillance in place, but remarks later withdrawn.
David Cameron: There are lessons to be learned
Best moments of opening ceremony Russia's controversial Winter Games.
Circassians once called the area around Sochi their homeland.
Is web porn the biggest and muckiest comfort blanket ever devised?
Pegasus flight forced to land in Istanbul after hijack attempts to divert plane to Winter Olympics city.
Petition launched in the wake of controversial Andy Carroll red card.
Rabbi David Zicherman urges civil disobedience over draft exemption withdrawal.
Photographs of Earth taken by Nasa's Curiosity Rover posted on Twitter.
Crimes against humanity are being committed in CAR, where people are killed, mutilated and raped all across the country.
Circassian activists compare nineteenth century ethnic cleansing by Russian Czarist troops to the Holocaust.
Black History Month is seen by critics to have a counterproductive effect.
Member of Parliament Hri Kumar says he has a 'cure for Anton Casey'.