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Narendra Dabholkar had been campaigning for a law for more than three decades to ban exploitative religious practices.

Churchill's famous war oratory failed to inspire a sceptical nation, claims Exeter University Don, Richard Toye

Cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment of female in solitary confinement was torture, say prison reformers.

Soaring price of onions in India leads thieves to drive off with lorryload of vegetable staple.

Claimant accused of fiddling application for disability benefits after officials read file about his other leg

Bus travelling to Kuala Lumpur comes off road and falls 200ft into gorge near Chin Swee Caves Taoist temple.

Archaeologists in Bulgaria have discovered a fourteenth century bronze ring that might have been used for killing.

Unidentified 17-year-old girl tweeted on Saturday night about plan to kill herself.

Group of education-focused NGOs say virginity tests for high school girls would be illegal.

Attacker and girlfriend got on Orpington train at Penge East and fled scene at Bromley South.

Prince William and Duchess of Cambridge released two informal family photographs of their family

Threat at power plant which leaked 300 tonnes of contaminated water raised to Level Three incident

British women face 15 years in jail after been caught with bags of cocaine in Peru

It took the unidentified man 12 hours to gather the courage to walk up to the doctors with his condition.

Rebels claim troops loyal to President Bashar al-Assad bombarded suburbs with nerve gas overnight.

Cologne prosecutors investigating how bodybuilder got through security to break into chancellor's plane at military airport.

Angela Merkel visits the former Nazi concentration camp of Dachau outside Munich.

Tunisian activist jailed for feminist stunt accuses Femen of murky financing to fury of group leader Inna Shevchenko.

Music lovers depend on visual information when judging a musical performance, University College London team finds.

Moritz Erhardt "worked 72 hours non stop" before collapsing and dying at London flat.

G4S and Serco admitting to overcharging government by tens of millions of pounds.

Filipino authorities evacuated thousands of people in metropolitan Manila and Luzon Island.

Titan Crane in Clydebank in same league as Eiffel Tower and Sydney Harbour Bridge.

Sori Kotei house in Tokyo's Nagatacho district was scene of murders and coups d'état

Boxing champion is butt of jokes in debut on China's Twitter.

Suspect in Santa Cruz believed to have copied Florida man who killed wife and posted photo on Facebook.

Authorities opened a probe into Joué-lès-Tours incident involving two officers after footage is posted on YouTube

Education bosses in Prabumulih says virginity tests are needed to stop female students engaging in 'negative acts'.

Kent businessman jailed for seven years for selling 'useless' devices for £10,000 each.