SOCIETY

Uncontrolled use of CCTV surveillance risks people's privacy, according to an NGO.

Tibetans around the world commemorated the 53rd Tibetan Uprising Day, to mark a failed uprising against Chinese rule in 1959

The devastating tsunami set off a nuclear meltdown in Fukushima and forced the nation to live in radiation fear.

Japan has once again shown that it can bounce back after a natural disaster.

Police attributed the attack to the Somali Islamist group al-Shebab, but nobody has claimed responsibility.

Women detect snakes and other potentially dangerous stimuli more quickly during the latter phase of their menstrual cycle.

Researchers have discovered that a common heart disease pill does not only lower blood pressure but also reduces racial feeling.

Researchers have mapped the entire debris field of the Titanic, using underwater robots

The 10-day meeting of China's National People's Congress discusses different pieces of legislation and amendments.

This is the worst flare-up in the region in recent times.

Kiribati is buying nine square miles of land on Fiji to relocate its population.

Foreign Secretary William Hague explained that there was only limited opportunity to free the hostages whose lives were in danger.

The priest has been charged with 21 counts of offence which he committed through an 18-year period.

Deliveryman Yu Muroga captured amazing footage of 2011 disaster from inside his car.

Falkirk MP fined £3,000 and banned from pubs for three months after House of Commons brawl.

Alexander Bede Walsh sentenced for abusing boys as young as eight over two decades.

British Prime Minister David Cameron has promised that adoption will become a faster process, finding a family will become streamlined for faster results and children at adoption homes will all appear on a nationwide adoption register meant for the UK and Wales.

Racial conflict justified for 40% of extreme right-wing, YouGov survey and academic study show.

Japan will be observing the first anniversary of the devastating tsunami on 11 March, 2012.

IBTImes UK reporter Nick Edmondson completes 20-mile run home in training for London Marathon - but desperately needs new shoes.

Pickles expressed concern over immigrants not speaking English. According to him, poor speakers could remain jobless or end up in ghettos.

Congress covers food security, aid effectiveness, trafficking and drugs.

The increase in cost is mainly on account of the need for doubling the number of security men for the Games.

While Italians are saying they were kept in the dark about the mission, Downing Street says they were kept in the loop.

Sea bird numbers are dwindling as overfishing depletes food stocks.

British engineer Chris McManus and Italian national Franco Lamolinara killed during rescue operation by joint forces of Nigeria and Britain.

PCC confirms imminent closure and replacement by new watchdog with sharper teeth.

Pets - and their owners - prepare to be judged at event in Birmingham.

Ng Tze-chuen sends robot insect through blocked tunnel in Egypt's Great Pyramid to reveal secrets of Pharaoh Cheops.