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One dead as protests spread against government's measure to tackle budget deficit.

Hamas leader Ahmed Jabari had just been given the draft of a truce agreement when he was assassinated in Israeli strike, peace activist Gershon Baskin revealed.

New study shows great white sharks evolved from broad-toothed mako sharks two million years earlier than previously thought.

Protesters clashed with police and stormed a conference centre hosting a German-Greek meeting in Thessaloniki.

Israel targeted 100 Hamas' sites while Palestinian militants fired more than 200 rockets towards the Jewish state.

ITV say they have taken "appropriate action" against presenter as OfCom announces it will investigate incident.

Ortega accused of stabbing children of CNBC executive Kevin Krim to death at their Manhattan apartment.

Three Israelis have been killed by rocket-fire from Gaza, where 11 Palestinians have died in Israeli air strikes since it killed a Hamas chief on Wednesday.

US calls for caution while acknowledging Israel’s right to self-defence.

Xi Jinping has been named the President of China for the next ten years as the country's leadership handed the reins of power to the next generation.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas calls for urgent Arab League meeting over Israeli airstrikes in Gaza

A video of a riot policeman violently hitting a demonstrator with a billy club in Rome was posted by newspaper La Repubblica

Researchers at Brown University have found sperm that is inconsistent in length is not as good as swimming as sperm that is the same size.

Protesters clashed with police in Italy and Spain during the ‘European Day of Action and Solidarity’

The 20-year-old studen taken into custody after confessing to his therapist that he plotted to kill the US leader and murder trick-or-treating children.

Israel's military spokeswoman Avital Leibovitch says the Gaza attack is 'start of a broader operation' called Pillar of Defence.

Defense Department investigating whether 'inappropriate communications' took place between Florida socialite and US general.

Jawad and Jalal Fairooz tell IBTimes UK of their shock at discovering their citizenship had been revoked by Bahrain government.

Internal document for Israel's foreign ministry claims removing Abbas 'only option' over UN bid

Rome's river Tiber is to reach 13 meters. Five people died in the floods

Mystery surrounding this zombie fungus - and a question baffling scientists - is how it got into three lots of injectable steroids prepared inside a laboratory

Bombs exploded in Baghdad, Kirkuk, Hilla and Hawija just hours before Muharram.

The head of the military wing of Palestinian Islamist group, Hamas, is dead. Commander of the al-Qassam Brigades, Ahmed al-Jaabari and his deputy, who was with him in the car, were killed instantly in the explosion caused by an Israeli airstrike.

Aung San Suu Kyi is on a six-day visit to India, her first visit to the country in 25 years and is expected to meet school and college friends apart from political leaders.

Savita Halappanavar, who was 17-weeks pregnant, arrived at the University Hospital Galway on 21 October complaining of back pain. She was then found to be miscarrying and died of septicaemia a week later.

Anti-austerity protests are expected to disrupt public life and restrict transport links across the continent.

As China's 18th Party Congress draws to a close just one day before the announcement of the country's new leaders, the state-owned news agency has reported that as expected Xi Jinping and Li Keqiang have been elected to the party's Central Committee.

Names of new leaders yet to be formally declared

Scientists have discovered an unexpected link between humans and an immortal species of animal.