WORLD

Magen David Adom blood drive turns down Knesset member over HIV prevention regulations.

US lawyer, specialising in art recovery, discusses the plight for Jewish families being reunited with heirlooms

Mandela memorial sign interpreter says he has schizophrenia.

Australia's high court rules federal Marriage Act takes precedence over other laws and holds recent unions illegal.

Australian children deformed by decades of incest found in scenes akin to Deliverance movie.

Pyongyang media give North Korea's young dictator same appellation as his predecessor.

Prominent gay rights activist says 'British colonial-era law remains in force'.

Vatican says US magazine award to Argentinian pontiff Jorge Mario Bergoglio unsurprising.

Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, Bono, Naomi Campbell and Jacob Zuma among people who paid tribute to anti-apartheid icon at Pretoria Union Buildings

India's top court declares homosexuality illegal, upholding 153-year old colonial law.

Royal Association for Deaf People says performance 'was one of the most public mockeries of deaf people and sign language we've ever seen'.

Weather causes travel chaos and flights and ferries cancelled during thick fog

First Jesuit Pope is Time choice for prestigious annual title, beating Edward Snowden and Edie Windsor.

Tests confirm 20 people died after contracting the Black Death in African island state.

French Paratroopers Nicolas Vokaer and Antoine Le Quinio killed in Central African Republic as President Hollande visits

Former CIA chief lets slip top-secret data and mafia comment to Zero Dark Thirty writer Mark Boal.

Danish PM who broke the "curse of Kinnock" made splash at Nelson Mandela's memorial

South African leader's body to lie in slate at amphitheatre where he was sworn in as president.

India's Supreme Court on Wednesday (December 11) threw out a 2009 ruling by a lower court that had decriminalised gay sex, in a major setback for the cause of gay rights in the world's largest democracy.

Deaf community angry after 'fake interpreter' mars Mandela memorial service.

Uruguay legalises sale and consumption of marijuana to battle illegal trafficking.

Barra has been in charge of design, engineering and quality for all GM vehicles.

The US government was due to run out of cash on 15 January.

India's highest court makes consensual sexual encounter between adults of same gender illegal.

John Kerry and Catherine Ashton condemn police action as security forces deny dispersing protest camp.

The memorial service saw Prime ministers and Presidents pay tribute to the global icon.

Trio caught squeezing into the frame at Johannesburg memorial service of former South African president.

Sunglasses senator replaced image of Muhammad Ali with himself to claim kinship with anti-apartheid hero.

World leaders gather in Soweto, Johannesburg, to pay tribute to anti-apartheid hero.