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The City of London has joined St Paul’s in suspending its legal procedures against the Occupy London protest outside the cathedral.

Halloween in New Orleans came to a bloody end when gunfire broke out in four separate shootings across the city, leaving at least 2 people dead and 15 injured.

According to the Global Gender Gap Report 2011 published Tuesday, women hold less than 20 per cent of all national decision-making positions across the world.

Vincent Tabak, who was convicted of the murder of Joanna Yeates on October 28, kept pictures of child pornography on his laptop, police have revealed.

Man's ancestors mated with Neanderthals and other related hominids during evolution, according to new research.

Each year, Muslims around the world flock to Mecca to perform the Haj pilgrimage, one of the five pillars of Islam. Click through the slideshow to see images of pilgrims on their journey to Saudi Arabia this year.

Kate Middleton, the Duchess of Cambridge, has been crowned the best dressed Brit by high-end fashion magazine, Harper’s Bazaar.

A former U.S. racist skinhead has undergone 16 months of painful laser surgery to get rid of the hate tattoos that covered his entire face.

The likelihood of a long drawn out legal battle between the Occupy London Protest and the City of London Corporation looked increasingly likely, after the lawyer representing the protesters confirmed legal action would be taken.

The Only Way is Essex haunt, The Sugar Hut has come under fire again after a 10-man brawl outside the club ended in a footballer being paralysed from the waist down.

As the world marks All Soul's and All Saint's Day, the IBTimes takes a look at a festival celebrating the deceased that is very much alive in Mexico and other parts of South America.

Royal Navy Warrant Officer Class 1 Rob Fuller has become the first sailor from the Senior Service to be a Yeoman Warder of Her Majesty's Royal Palace and Fortress The Tower of London.

In an attempt to curb the population boom in the UK, Migration Watch UK launched an e-petition on Tuesday, calling on the government to stabilize the country's population and keep it well below the 70 million mark.

In a shocking revelation the large majorities of interviewed migrant workers in the UK sex industry are not forced nor trafficked, suggest a report.

Two years ago Sarah Smithurst made her first trip to Africa, looking to set up a crime-fighting scheme in Ghana. Back home, in Nottinghamshire, she is responsible for co-ordinating information passed on to the county's police force through a similar organization - Crimestoppers. It was on the back of Crimestoppers' success that she was asked to travel to Ghana to set up - Crimefighters.

A man has been brought to justice following a 13-year murder investigation by the Metropolitan Police.

A man has been convicted of killing his elderly father and a 29-year-old man in an arson attack on a maisonette in Tower Hamlets.

The past seven months have seen bloodshed and uprising in both Libya and Syria, but while former Libyan dictator has been ousted and killed by rebel fighters, Syrian president Bashar al-Assad obstinately clings to power. Could his continued refusal to engage with protesters lead to a similar violent end?

Gruesome images have emerged of the public beheading in a car park of a Sudanese man in Saudi Arabia accused of 'sorcery' and 'witchcraft'.

One of the protest's great allies in the church, Rev Dean Graham Knowles, has resigned amidst fears that a long running legal battle which made his position, in his words, "untenable."

In an eerie coincidence, a 1980s American sitcom predicted the date of Col Gaddafi's death awithin three months of the former Libyan leader's actual killing.

The United Nations Education, Science and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) has voted to give the Palestinians full membership status in a move that will boost their bid for UN statehood.

A man has been jailed for six months after police found over a kilogram of cannabis at his Tipton home.

The terrifying destruction of the Bangkok floods has been captured by photo journalists.

Monday marks the end of NATO's involvement in Libya and one of the "most successful" operations in the history of the alliance. The IBTimes takes a look at the event s over the last 7 months that have led to the country's liberation.

New York has been covered in snow following rare October storms.

According to media reports, both India and the Philippines have welcomed what they claim is the world's seven billionth person.

IBTimes Journalist, Tom Nicolson, stays at England's most haunted hotel to find out if the stories of monks floating in the garden are true.

In what opposition leaders in Italy have called "another shameful insult" for their country, Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has been directly named in a US government report on people trafficking.