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Boxing champion is butt of jokes in debut on China's Twitter.

On 18 August 2013, General Abdul Fattah al-Sisi appeared on Egyptian state television calling the unrest, verging on civil war, which the world has been witnessing since the overthrow of Muslim Brotherhood President Mohammed Morsi on 03 July, "terrorism"

Social media campaign backed by politicians and TV hosts after Stockholm assault on Muslim woman in headscarf.

Suspect in Santa Cruz believed to have copied Florida man who killed wife and posted photo on Facebook.

Authorities opened a probe into Joué-lès-Tours incident involving two officers after footage is posted on YouTube

Education bosses in Prabumulih says virginity tests are needed to stop female students engaging in 'negative acts'.

Interior Minister Manuel Valls says France on high alert over threat.

Obscure Mashco-Piro tribe attempt to make contact with outsiders for second time since 2011.

Erdogan cites French Jewish intellectual Bernard-Henri Lévy that 'democracy is not the ballot box'.

Former president on conspiracy plot charges over death of populist PM killed in 2007 in Rawalpindi.

Russian military creating cyber security command and operational wing.

Badie faces charges of incitement to murder and attack on state institutions.

Northeastern China ravaged by heavy rain triggering massive floods as Beijing deploys troops.

An Egyptian court dropped on Monday (August 19) a corruption charge against Hosni Mubarak, the president ousted in the 2011 uprising, a ruling his lawyer said would clear the way to his release from jail soon.

Defendant denies criminal responsibity in gruesome killing of Kujoe Bonsafo Agyei-Kodie.

Railway trespasser thrown 20ft into the air after missing noise of approaching 110mph train because he had his headphones on.

Merkel visit scrapped as armed 'stalker' holds police at bay for nine hours

Driver pays with his life after speeding train ploughs into group of pilgrims crossing rail tracks at Dharmara Ghat.

Gulf superpower pledges support to Egypt's military government against 'terrorists'.

SOHR earlier reported Jesuit missionary abducted in ar-Raqqah by Islamic State of Iraq and Levante (ISIS) had been executed.

Terrorist group operatives discussed plan in phone call intercepted by NSA, Germany's Bild claims.

Tourist stranded inside a cave in the northern town of Sagada rescued by security forces

Fishermen feared dead found safe after swimming for 16 hours to reach land.

President cleared of corruption after two years in detention but conspiracy to kill protesters charges still untried.

Paralympic runner breaks down and grabs relations for support as photographers crowd Pretoria magistrates court.

Reports of execution-style killing of off-duty officials near Gaza border town of Rafah.

More than 80,000 American and South Korean troops involved in war exercises.

Egypt's interior ministry says 36 people die of asphyxiation during prison transfer while Brotherhood accuses security forces of killing prisoners.

This comes as authorities crackdown on Muslim Brotherhood supporters