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News that former French President Jacques Chirac has been found guilty of corruption has rocked France.

A French court has convicted former President Jacques Chirac of diverting public funds and abusing public confidence.

A church billboard which shows a shocked Virgin Mary holding a positive pregnancy test has caused controversy in New Zealand.

Police found out Dennis Leighton in his Vauxhall Estate after two freezing nights in South London.

SampleTrend store opened in London allows consumers to pick items displayed on the shelves for free.

An inquest Wednesday heard testimony on the Taliban's killing a British doctor who was on a humanitarian mission to Afghanistan.

NI chief executive James Murdoch was shown crucial evidence suggesting phone hacking was "rife", says exNOTW's lawyer.

Danny Cook, 22, set up the Facebook page to take advantage of the social unrest that dominated the country for three days during August earlier this year.

Hundreds of Congolese people took to the streets of London to on Wednesday in protest at the recent elections in the Democratic Republic of Congo and the apparent lack of interest from the Western world.

The schools would adopt a highly conservative curriculum and textbooks and more mullahs (Islamic theologists) would be hired as teachers.

People who do not “look Spanish” can be stopped by police as often as four times a day, according to report by Amnesty International.

A lost seal pup found its way into a residential home on the north island of New Zealand on Sunday night.

A senior officer of the Australian navy was found guilty on Wednesday of spanking a junior female sailor.

Dow is linked to Union Carbide, the firm responsible for the 1984 Bhopal gas leak tragedy that killed thousands of people.

‘Big Man’ from the ‘Scotrail No Ticket’ YouTube video that has recently gone viral ‘will have his day in court’ according to the father of Sam Main, the boy he threw off the ScotRail service.

A South African woman was arrested at Bangkok's international airport after police found 1.5 kg of cocaine hidden in her dreadlocks.

A picture of the man who committed the shock attack that claimed at least four lives in Liege Christmas Market is starting to emerge.

Indonesian sharia police are "morally rehabilitating" more than 60 young punk rock fans, who were holding a charity concert in Aceh province on Sumatra Island.

Pictures of London's 213 "most wanted" people suspected of involvment in the August rioting in London have been released by Scotland Yard.

Lucky Ones Who Escaped Death on 9/11 are Ian Thorpe, Mark Wahlberg, Gwyneth Paltrow, Sara Ferguson, Larry Silverstein, Patti Austin, Seth MacFarlane.

A 47-year-old man suffocated his partner after snuggling up together and falling asleep on the sofa, an inquest heard.

The woman, aged 45, worked as a cleaner for a neighbour of Nordine Amrani, was found in a cannabis plantation at gunman's home.

"In total, he had already come before Belgian justice more than around 20 times," RTL television's website has reported.

The group consisting of young boys and middle aged men in the age group of 12 to 50 years were continuously beaten up and deprived of food by the authorities of the madrassa.

A 52-year-old-man man faces up to 11 years in prison after being convicted of having sex with a 14-year-old girl while knowing he was infected with HIV in the United States.

Famillies fled for their lives when Nordine Amrani, 33, went on the rampage killing two teenagers, aged 15 and 17, a 20-year-old, and a 65-year-old woman in Liege, Belgium

An uncle and his nephew were machine-gunned to death in east London - because their van had been blocking someone's car.

It is thought that a grenade and Kalashnikov attack outside a courthouse in Belgium may have been an attempted jailbreak.

Two people have been killed in a grenade and kalashnikov attack near a courthouse in Liege, Belgium.