A selection of photographs from around the world.
Interim President Michel Djotodia is expected to step down after he was unable to halt the bloodshed in CAR
The Metropolitan police will wear video cameras to be more open after Mark Duggan's death.
Violence in Anbar province has caused long term pipeline security worries
Dennis Rodman offers apologies for appearing to suggest that Bae was in the wrong.
The diplomat's defence says the issuance of indictment would be a "polarising event".
Vast areas of Canada and the US have been subjected sub-zero conditions
IBTimes UK looks back at momentous year in life of the Duchess of Cambridge.
The key witness videoed the incident which lead to the death of Mark Duggan.
Chairman of the Home Affairs Select Committee has urged the community to remain calm and look towards a resolution.
Following Mark Duggan verdict, IBTimes UK looks at cases where police are not convicted.
Angry protesters chant 'Who killed Mark Duggan?' following inquest jury's lawful killing verdict.
Bulgaria's inability to cope with wave of Syrian refugees has fuelled xenophobia.
Mayor of London asks Teresa May to allow Metropolitan Police to use water cannons.
Birthday basketball game for the dictator of Hermit Kingdom
Record freeze eases and temperatures rise as icy weather moves across the Atlantic.
Jury declares man whose death sparked 2011 riots lawfully killed by police despite fact he was not armed.
Nouri al-Maliki urges militants with al-Qaida-linked Islamic State of Iraq and Levante to give up.
RSPCA estimates heatwave in southern Queensland responsible for bat deaths.
Norman Thompson tormented neighbours by also playing Martin Luther King's "I have a dream" speech repeatedly in the early hours.
Ralph Lauren's niece Jennifer has been fined for being drunk and abusive on a Delta Air Lines flight. She was sentenced at Ennis District Court in Co Clare, Ireland.
Settlers had uprooted olive trees in retaliation attack
Child disobeys brother, a Taliban commander, and refuses to carry out bomb attack at police checkpoint in Afghanistan
Blast during shooting of Merajiha by director Masoud Dehnamaki leaves five crew members dead
Police whistleblower James Patrick said rape and sexual offences were under-reported by around 25%.
Miss Venezuela 2004 shot dead with former husband on isolated road between Valencia and Puerto Cabello.
Egypt in danger of repeating old mistakes by classifying Muslim Brotherhood as terrorists, argues Quliiam's Emman El-Badawy.
Beauty queen and Thomas Berry gunned down in roadside robbery in Venezuela.
Brazilian Inri Cristo believes he is the reincarnation of Jesus Christ, has thousands of followers and runs his own church.
Britain spends an above average amount of time browsing porn on the web