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Work hard to make the 'Chinese dream come true,' Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying says in National Day address.

IBTimes UK looks at the Islamic rites and rules of the Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca, Saudi Arabia

Hajj is one of the biggest gatherings in the world.

The UN's Goodwill Ambassador's speech has divided opinion

IBTimes UK looks at how US civil rights activist Bayard Rustin led the 1963 March on Washington.

Indian PM Narendra Modi turned out to be the most unusual guest at the White House.

"Socially isolated and stigmatised" drinkers who join scheme given beer, fags, food and cash

We spoke the man behind the non-internet messaging app

Hollywood actor Mark Ruffalo has pulled support for Marina Silva, the Brazilian presidential candidate for her opposition to legalising gay marriage.

An unlikely supporter of feminism, Chanel's creative director Karl Lagerfeld staged a fake protest march for women's rights.

Isis have not communicated since sending audio tape of Alan Henning pleading for his life

MoD: first attack on Isis targets successful, jets returned safely to Cyprus

The search for missing Flight MH370 will begin next week with searchers using three-dimensional maps of the southern Indian Ocean floor.

Algerian justice minister claims breakthrough in investigation of French mountaineer's executioners.

Egypt's public figures call for boycott of Ankara products after Turkey's president Erdogan attacks regime of al-Sisi.

A look at the history before and after the proclamation of PRC.

Six people have been killed and 100 poisoned in Russian city of Surgut after smoking a synthetic drug.

Moldovan ballerina claims captain led her to cruise liner top deck to await helicopter rescue

With news leaking out that top-end New York apartment block One57's sales are flat, could London be running out of billionaires?

World's most persecuted minority faces ominous choice: give up identity or be detained

Christian villagers under threat from Islamic State persecution on Syrian border.

NGOs say Iran has one of the highest rates of executions in the world

In China, people deliberately silence their feelings about the government in exchange for prosperity

Rayhaneh Jabbari, arrested in 2007, was due to be executed by hanging on 30 September 2014.

Devout Muslim Husain Abdullah was flagged by an official for breaching rules on celebrating

Molotov cocktail thrown against parliament building in the German capital.

One writer analyses her first time visiting Amsterdam's infamous Red Light district De Wallen

12,000 American troops to stay after end of the year in deal signed by new Afghan President Ashraf Ghani

Newly-established jihadist group pledges allegiance to Islamic State