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Missouri police have deployed a noise-based weapon which can cause permanent hearing damage.

Activists stage rooftop protest against arms manufacture following similar demonstration in Staffordshire

Prime Minister Narendra Modi says India is shamed over rapes amid increasing sexual attacks on women.

Politician and former husband of Jemima Goldsmith was target of assassin's bullet.

Gaza faction's spokesman says Egypt needs to remove "technical issues" hampering final truce.

Shinzo Abe skips visit to Shinto shrine, but makes ritual offering.

Hassan Rouhani tweets image of Mayam Mirzakhani wearing the hijab and one without.

Human rights groups says lawyer was held in tiny cell, alone, with no light, and is suffering malnutrition.

United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation finds Gaza's farms and fishing industries ruined.

Yazidi MP says 70,000 to 80,000 people are still stranded on the mountain

Keeling became oldest competitor in 100m race at Gay Games in Ohio.

Face-to-face high-level talks scheduled to resolve Ukraine crisis.

Indian PM talks of transforming India from a land of snake charmers into a 'digital India'

Maliki paves way for successor, Haider al-Abadi, in order to 'preserve unity' in Iraq.

August 15 marks centenary of the completion of the Panama Canal, linking the Atlantic and Pacific.

A bank in Kuala Lumpur said money from three passengers has been transferred into the account of a fourth passenger.

Israeli anti-Arab group, Lehava, calls for protests at Arab Jewish couple's wedding.

Brand has called on businesses to withdraw financial ties with companies that support oppression in Gaza.

SWAT Archaeology have discovered a Neolithic henge and funeral monument in Iwade Meadows, Sittingbourne.

US president says no rescue mission needed and calls off more humanitarian airdrops.

St Louis County police strongly deny person named by Anonymous is the officer who shot Mike Brown.

Oil giant punished with Western sanctions and chief executive faces US blacklist.

Teen also being investigated by police for 'sedition.'

City shelled heavily as Russia dismisses claims of invasion pretext.

Artillery shells hit separatist-held city of Donetsk for the first time, killing at least one.

Internet users are encouraging the boycott of Exodus due to racial concerns about the cast

Rebel leader Igor Srelkov to be replaced by Vladimir "The Tsar" Kononov as DNR's defence minister.

Missouri governor announces he is stripping force of duties after four days of protests.

Great Ramelli, 20, and Vanessa Marzullo, 21, crossed into Syria from Turkey and were kidnapped by Islamist militants.