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Roadside bomb kills Iraqi police chief, dealing major blow to fight against Isis.

The rebuilding of Gaza will cost $4bn, says Palestine PM Mahmoud, who promised a transparent and responsible use of the funds pledged.

Stuart W Bowen said that attempts to investigate the lead were dropped.

Super-typhoon Vongfong hit Japanese islands of Okinawa and Kyushu with 100mph winds, injuring to least 35 people.

Kremlin says President Putin has ordered 17,600 troops to pull out from Ukraine's Rostov region.

The leader of the Nazi party Adolf Hitler had a secret addiction to crystal meth, the drug which is the focus of the TV series Breaking Bad

Using the internet crowdsourcing mode, Usaid has sought new and effective designs for protective suits against Ebola infection.

Plane flying from Birjand to Zahedan was carrying four police officers who were investigating recent attacks in Saravan.

UK's specialist team drawn from Yorkshire Regiment to train Pesmerga forces in Kurdish capital in northern Iraq.

French feminists Osez Le Feminisme claim the sculpture depicts the assault of a woman and should be removed from a war memorial site.

Karen and Jay Priest were mistakenly informed that their son Justin had been killed in a car crash.

The YPG are facing a vicious onlsaught from Isis over the Syrian Kurdish border town of Kobani.

George W Bush was arrested for drink driving after beer drinking binge with tennis star.

Local Tanzania witch doctor arrested on suspicion of murdering seven people accused of witchcraft.

Oklahoma's refurbished death chamber aims to improve lethal injections following botched execution of Clayton Lockett.

Men with feet bigger than size 10 are three times more likely to having sex outside relationships than those with size 7 to 9.

Alaska police tell the wrong parents their son is dead.

Cameroon President Paul Biya announces release of hostages on state radio.

At least 7 killed and 42 injured in Multan stadium stampede after rally for Imran Khan's PTI opposition party.

Brian and Susan Trost abandon dream Missouri home after infestation of 6,000 brown recluse spiders.

Three-year-old boy in critical condition after falling into 15-foot-deep pit.

What exactly is happening in North Korea, to cause Kim Jong-un to remain hidden from the public?

Missouri demonstrators demand police officer faces charges over shooting of teenager Michael Brown.

Mi-8 helicopter disappears in Republic of Tyva near southern Siberian region.

Human remains and a sacred ceremonial platform have been found in the city of Jauja, in central Peru

Student activists led by Scholarism pour into Admiralty as Hong Kong officials head for conference in Guangzhou.

Citizenfour shows NSA whistleblower and Lindsay Mills together in Moscow.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella was criticised for his remark that women shouldn't ask for raises.

UN official warns of massacre as militants bring in scores of fighters and heavy weapons from Raqqa to Syrian-Turkish border town.