Authorities ban all web-based taxi firms operating in Indian capital in a move likely to affect 20 companies.
Acting on appeal by local bus operator All China Express, court orders eviction of student and Occupy protesters.
The United Nations International Anti-Corruption Day theme for 2014 is 'break the corruption chain'.
BBC One presenter Ellie Harrison says she was told to tone down 'Hollywood' blond for 'country-set' image.
A Rikers Island guard is accused of falsifying logbooks showing how often she checked on a mentally ill inmate.
Techniques usually categorized under torture were pushed over 'legally allowable' limits by CIA in secret prisons.
An attack by Israeli jets on military facilities in Syria has killed two Hezbollah fighters.
Baroness Jenkin claims porridge only costs 4p but poor remain hungry as they don't know how to cook.
Albert Einstein's tempestuous love life has been uncovered with the release of his personal letters to Mileva, his first wife and Elsa, his maternal first cousin who became his lover.
Plane crashed into a house as it was landing at nearby airport.
Israeli leader condemns Mahmoud Abbas' comments that millions are waiting to return to Israel.
Israel's Leviathan gas field could supply Jordan for 15 years under the deal.
BREAKING: Plane crashes into a house, not clear yet whether incident caused any victims.
Critics argue language classes are part of government's attempt to reshape history.
Crackdown on gay people continues in Egypt with massive raid in capital.
Mohammad Azhar bin Tahir pleads guilty to 'unauthorised modification' of section of Loong's website.
Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula leader Nasr bin Ali al-Ansi releases video interview to Yemeni journalist.
On December 8, Catholics celebrate the Feast of the Immaculate Conception.
The comic book aims to shed light on issue of sexual violence in the country.
British vicar Canon Andrew White reveals brutal killing of Christian children.
Attackers are now motivated by religion rather than politics - and that's very troubling for Israel.
Islamist militants have waged a violent campaign against government troops from the Sinai peninsula.
Israeli intelligence leads to 31 arrests; the majority Palestinian students in Jordan.
Letter came as Belgium announced and then denied agreement on Palestinian statehood.
Jewish grandmother's complaint about the US pharmacy's wrapping paper has led to a stock withdrawal.
€1.2bn deal could be scrapped as France protests over Russia's role in eastern Ukraine conflict.
British family of murdered photojournalist 'kept in the dark' about the attempted raid.
Russian deputy foreign minister Sergei Ryabkov said goal of sanctions to bring change of power.
The men were accused of being involved in two attacks that killed at least 46 people.
The Refugee Council: Britain has only taken in 90 people displaced by the Syria conflict