The Public Health Ministry of Thailand aims to scrap 90 percent of squat loos to reduce arthritic cases and boost tourism in the country
Kate Middleton visits Aldershot for St Patrick's Day and stays true to tradition by wearing the same green Emilia Wickstead dress from last year
Polish cyclist Krystian Herba climbed 100 floors of the Chinese skyscraper without using a seat on the cycle, and by not touching his arms and feet on the ground
Trent Mays and Ma'lik Richmond will serve a year in a juvenile jail for raping a 16-year-old girl after a drunken party, in a case that has divided the Ohio steel town.
Actress Julie Goodyear shared the highs and lows of her life and career on Desert Island Discs.
Chess has a new icon in the shape of Norwegian world No 1 Magnus Carlsen, a 23-year-old man who lives with his parents.
In his first Sunday window appearance at the Vatican, Pope Francis addresses 150,000 people in off-the-cuff Italian
Stamford, described as 'England's most attractive town' by poet Sir John Betjeman, beats 101 others to top list.
A sandy stretch of Californian beach has been dubbed 'the world's most expensive sandbox'.
Police are investigating Facebook death threats against Kate McCann, the mother of missing Madeleine McCann.
St Patrick's Day is celebrated around the world on 17 March.
French police said the British man and his 12-year-old son seem to have fallen to their deaths near Mont Blanc.
Police detain 20 people in Datia region of Madhya Pradesh in central India.
A dream cruise to Hawaii has left a British woman with permanent seasickness, blackouts and nausea.
Sri Lankan immigration officials turned away a British tourist
Archaeologists called in after engineers discover skeletons in previously unidentified graveyard.
An escaped convict who broke out of a prison van more than a year ago has been flown back to the UK after being arrested in Northern Cyprus.
A Facebook page has been set up to document the exploits of the 32-member team.
An unnamed teacher in Virginia, US, has angered parents by making pupils undergo a bogus lie detector test.
Run on banks feared as account holders react with shock to £13bn deal.
Heaven knows he's miserable now. Former Smiths lead singer Morrissey has cancelled the rest of his US tour because of ill health.
Fashion brand admits feathers were sourced from China, where cruel practice of 'live plucking' is commonplace.
Secretive religious group submits plan to restore listed estate into 'auditing and recruitment' centre.
Thousands of supporters came to Caracas to pay tribute to late Venezualan president Hugo Chavez, whose final resting place is still to be decided.
Wiltshire family GP faces jail after being arrested for secretly filming intimate examinations of hundreds of female patients.
Prince Charles and his wife Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, reached Saudi Arabia on Friday 15 March as they continue their nine-day visit to the Middle East.
Archbishop Wilfrid Fox Napier claims that paedophilia is a psychological illness, 'not a criminal condition'.
Pope Francis is to meet his predecessor, Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger (formerly Pope Benedict XVI) for lunch on Saturday 23 March.
A swarm of cockroaches invaded a Greyhound bus in New York City on Friday, causing panicked passengers to evacuate.
A primary school teacher in North Yorkshire has been charged with more than 20 sex offences involving children.