Iran's claim to have put a monkey safely into orbit are thrown into doubt by before-and-after photographs.
The Spanish actress Penelope Cruz and husband Javier Bardem are now expecting their second child.
Egypt police brutalise middle-aged protester against Mohammed Mursi.
The 2013 Carnival of Venice hosts the Beautiful Mask competition on Saturday, as well as the Festa delle Marie
Hackers gain access to user names, passwords and email addresses.
Pakistani Taliban claims it launched attack in Serai Naurang town of North Waziristan in retaliation for US drone strikes.
Francois Hollande to meet interim Malian President Dioncounda Traore and visit Timbuktu to mark French-led operation.
Gun killer suspect Jimmy Lee Dykes holds off police from bunker in Dale County.
Volgograd renamed Stalingrad to celebrate key WWII battle against Nazis in 1943.
Austrian charity Volkshilfe in bid to sublet Braunaum am Inn’s Gasthaus zum Pommer building from interior ministry.
Peng Xiuhua, aged 101, rose from the dead just before she was put into her coffin and her funeral turned into a party.
Scientists have mapped pigeon DNA 150 years after Darwin was first fascinated by them.
Kokabee was a doctoral student at the University of Texas when he was jailed in Iran.
Reports claim Hollande will meet Mali's interim president Dioncounda Traore in Bamako before visiting Timbuktu.
Jailed member of the Pussy Riot feminist group complained of headaches and of suffering from hard work at a Siberian prison colony.
Naval exercise comes amid tensions over North Korea's threat to conduct nuclear test.
Five-month-old child undergoes plastic surgery to have her face reconstructed.
Syrian Electronic Army activists hack dozens of soft targets in Israel.
Blast thought to have been caused by gas leak or faulty machinery leaves at least 25 dead and 100 trapped under debris.
Kim Jong-un imposes martial law and brings forward test date after Seoul warns of serious consequences.
Accountants who concocted K2 tax plan are behind 'charity' that gives just 8p in every £100.
A jokey campaign by Gandul newspaper says Romanian women look like the Duchess of Cambridge
Tense standoff continues with shooting suspect who is holding boy, 5, hostage in bunker in Dale County.
15-year-old shot by accident in park two miles from President's home.
Ambassador Ali Abdul-Karim Ali responds after Israeli warplanes hit research centre on outskirts of Damascus.
Friedman says victims of child abuse have 'learned an important lesson'.
As Iran jails 15 journalists for being anti-revolutionaries, Nadin Rayya analyses the freedom of speech crisis.
Sabah newspaper claim that Kurdish militants ready to abandon fight and withdraw dismissed.
Officials raid house of 'Messiah' Ignacio Gonzalez de Arriba on Texas border.
UN human rights mission says settlements breach Geneva Convention.