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Engineers have come up with a scheme to build a canal across Thailand.

Capital Economics believes that Brent is "now back within a whisker" of its end-2015 forecast of $60 per barrel.

Victims' families struggle to get answers about cruise ship disaster in the Yangtze River.

A helicopter pilot has died in a crash on the Isle of Man during high winds.

Officials attack 10 foreigners who 'showed disrespect to the sacred mountain' by stripping naked.

Saudi Arabia used a Patriot missile battery to shoot down a Scud which was fired across the border.

The coalition claimed to have repulsed the Houthi led attack.

Around 100 persons still missing.

The controversial group is known for protesting at the funerals of soldiers and using hate speech.

One person recovers and leaves hospital.

12-year-old schoolgirl from Singapore and believed to have died on Mount Kinabalu.

Vilified for his drink problems by political opponents called cybernats

Graft is the 'arch-enemy of democracy and development' he will tell world leaders.

The residents on the Austin, Texas street wondered if they should update the name.

No prep, but time for meditation and wellbeing.

Banks refuse to accept the coins due to sheer volume and storage needed.

China says visit is part of an important 'party-to-party' exchange.

Comedian and former newspaper editor engage in high-profile spat on Twitter.

Stéphane Richard claimed his Cairo comments were not properly understood.

Human rights investigators are reviewing war crime evidence with the help of new technologies.

Izabel Laxaman, 13, jumped from a bridge on the Interstate 5 freeway after a video of her punshiment was posted online.

Opposition says whistle campaign to as police carries out relentless crackdown xxx

A Malaysian tourism official announced the fatalities, saying details would be released tomorrow.

Protester tells IBTimes UK 'I could be killed and thrown in the river' as hundreds are arrested.

The fall of the city was a crushing strategic blow to the Iraqi army and its allies.

Kurd-hating MHP has gained a foothold in Germany - and the Turkish elections could bring further success.

Pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party leader was due to speak when blast hit rally.

Finnish custom retrieve artefact pillaged in Syria that was being smuggled to Russia.

Athens decided to postpone the payment of the €300m (£218m, $338m) loan – a highly unusual step, but one that does not yet signal a formal default.