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Threat at power plant which leaked 300 tonnes of contaminated water raised to Level Three incident

Pro-Assad Facebook page praises chemical attack that allegedly killed more than 200 people

Liberal opposition leader ElBaradei faces lawsuit following his resignation as vice-president.

The man who helped introduce the Terrorism Act 2000 says there was no legal basis for detention of Guardian journalist's partner at Heathrow

It took the unidentified man 12 hours to gather the courage to walk up to the doctors with his condition.

Rebels claim troops loyal to President Bashar al-Assad bombarded suburbs with nerve gas overnight.

1,000 settlement homes are not an impediment to peaces, insist Reuven Rivlin.

Cologne prosecutors investigating how bodybuilder got through security to break into chancellor's plane at military airport.

Angela Merkel visits the former Nazi concentration camp of Dachau outside Munich.

Tunisian activist jailed for feminist stunt accuses Femen of murky financing to fury of group leader Inna Shevchenko.

Powerful Israeli intelligence say 15 Salafi groups alone operate in deadly Sinai peninsula.

G4S and Serco admitting to overcharging government by tens of millions of pounds.

Filipino authorities evacuated thousands of people in metropolitan Manila and Luzon Island.

Titan Crane in Clydebank in same league as Eiffel Tower and Sydney Harbour Bridge.

Sori Kotei house in Tokyo's Nagatacho district was scene of murders and coups d'état

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.