Iran executed at least three child offenders in January 2018. Only four countries in the world, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Yemen, carry death penalty for children.
Soldiers drafted in to replace sick security guards as complaints mount about food hygiene and officials struggle to contain outbreak of norovirus
Twitter and PornHub say they will both take action against AI-enhanced porn videos that use the faces of celebrities, a phenomenon now widely known as "deepfakes".
"Someone stop him please," one Twitter user wrote.
Nato is considering a renewed commitment to a long-term training mission in Iraq as the US puts pressure on its European allies to help hold the country against Isis militants.
The North Korean government has launched a new beer with an "exclusive" recipe after leader Kim Jong-un lambasted the quality of imported lager from its neighbours in the South.
"The stupid is strong with this one," one Twitter user wrote.
North Koreans lucky enough to own a mobile phone can play patriotic shoot-'em-up as propaganda war moves into video games.
US President Donald Trump has ordered the Pentagon to plan a Washington DC military parade prompting critics to brand him a "wannabe banana republic strongman".
While the main accused in the lynching incident was given death sentence, 5 others received 25 years of prison term.
The Philippines president hits back at the European Union bloc and explains how he does not want to visit Brussels.
US Senator Dan Sullivan asks Etsy.com to reconsider policy to allow native Alaskans to continue selling walrus tusk products.
Twitter users poke fun at US president's thinning thatch after footage of him boarding aircraft reveals extent of hair loss.
Power in pariah state of North Korea is a family affair as Kim's little sister moves further into world spotlight at Winter Olympics.
Washington will soon unveil its "toughest and most aggressive sanctions" against North Korea, said US Vice President Mike Pence.
Weeks of talks after the elections have brought political and economic uncertainty to Europe's largest economy.
An Olympian question for Pyeongchang Winter Games organisers to wrestle with: to give or not to give the Galaxy phone to 22 North Korean athletes.
Muhiyidin d'Baha, who was filmed jumping through barrier to take down controversial flag in Charleston, dies after New Orleans shooting.
The Syrian regime claimed that most of the projectiles fired by Israeli forces were intercepted.
Photos show buildings in Hualien leaning at sharp angles, their lowest floors crushed into mangled heaps of concrete, shattered glass and bent iron beams.
"What the world needs right now is capitalism with a conscience," Carrey said.
A video posted by Russian space agency Roscomos shows the badminton shuttle zip across in zero gravity as ISS astronauts float about playing the game.
An artist has started a movement against designs in cities which prevent homeless people seeking shelter.
Satellite images show ongoing construction at North Korea's Yonbong-ni base, which when completed will be able to house 54 hovercrafts.
Officials at the Washington State Department of Early Learning have launched an investigation that may take at least 30 days.
Pyongyang blasts South Korean protesters for being "accustomed to sycophancy toward the US".
A morgue worker was sacked after it was revealed that he had sex with the corpse of a murdered Russian reality star.
Spanish police are investigating after a child gave birth at Virgen de la Arrixaca hospital in the city of Murcia, in southeastern Spain.
A Girl Scout has become an internet sensation after sell over 300 boxes of cookies when she set up outside one of California's new legal weed dispensaries.
Denmark has proposed banning full-face Islamic veils like the niqab and the burqa in public with the justice minister saying they were "incompatible" with Danish values.