Researchers now think the Neolithic Hongshan culture is the source of Chinese civilisation.
Bus carrying inmates veers off road and collides with train in Texas city of Odessa.
Comedian Dieudonne and four men who shouted "death to Charlie" outside kosher bakery among arrested.
Plans reveal Nazi death camp will be used to house refugees in 'alarming' move.
Tribal leaders say former Guantanamo prisoner Mullah Rauf established IS base in Zamin Dawar area.
People living near the international airport in the rebel-controlled city of Donetsk faced the destruction wrought on their neighbourhood after heavy overnight shelling.
Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee says president and First Lady show 'double standards'.
Centre-left politicians Romano Prodi and Walter Veltroni top contenders to replace Italian president Napolitano.
Diyarbakir court bans web pages publishing first issue of Charlie Hebdo since Paris massacre.
Mayor believed to be behind students' disappearance was arrested in November
The UN appealed for more support for Syrian refugees on Wednesday (January 14) after it launched the largest ever report examining their living conditions of refugee communities.
Belgian arms dealer hands himself in to local police after admitting arming Paris attackers.
Ahmet Davutoglu warns against anti-Islam movement Pegida which organises weekly rallies in Germany.
Many of the 53 Cuban prisoners freed from jail under a historic US-Cuba accord remain bound to the justice system, their freedom conditional and subject to being returned to jail at any moment, dissident leaders say.
Individual EU nations will be able to ban cultivation of genetically modified (GM) crops under a compromise deal agreed on Tuesday (January 13) that ends years of deadlock over the barbed issue and could actually boost GM farming.
Michael Kenna's black-and-white French landscapes on show at Beetles+Huxley in London.
The Sunni Islamist group is said to have set up roadblocks in their territories to ensure women dress up in Islamic way.
IS releases new video from French fighters following Paris attacks, threatening Europe and US.
Teachers and school staff in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa urged to carry guns to confront extremists in case of a terror attack.
Nobody claimed responsibility but suspicions likely to fall on Boko Haram.
Charlie Hebdo's new issue sells out before dawn around France, with scuffles at kiosks in Paris.
Patricia Driscoll denies she is an assassin and claims Busch deluded by film script.
Sexual abuses in terror networks including Islamic State reveal hypocrisy of Islamists compromising their ideology.
He said that France belongs to the "party of Satan" and warned of more "tragedies and terror".
Issues of the latest edition of Charlie Hebdo selling for thousands of pounds on eBay.
Social network teamed up with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children to issue alerts.
New Russian regulation denying transgender people the right to drive has drawn condemnation from human rights activists and LGBT community.
Health concerns over sacred river where millions of Hindus cremate their deceased relatives.
Doctors fear animal took man's organ after jilted wife chopped it off at Chinese hospital.
French controversial comic Dieudonné in custody for 'apology for terrorism' over Facebook statement mocking solidarity march.