WORLD

US mission receives photograph of pressure cooker bomb along with threat letter.

Social media site Weibo's images of phallic headquarters and mockery of Communist Party newspaper blocked.

Ramon Gustavo Castillo Gaete had been on run since February after news of 'sacrifice' broke.

Beijing authorities reported 382 cases of meat-related offences and seized more than 20,000 tonnes of faked food products.

Zulfiqar Ali shot several times by unidentified gunmen while heading to court.

Eurosceptic party becomes official opposition in Lincolnshire while Tories lose two of seven councils.

French journalists' group Reporters Without Borders on Friday (May 3) marked World Press Freedom Day by pasting a wall in Paris with giant posters of the leaders whom it says flout media rights.

A prosecutor investigating the 2007 assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, one of the most shocking events in Pakistan's turbulent history, was shot dead on Friday (May 3), police said.

The United States on Thursday (May 2) urged North Korea to grant amnesty to Kenneth Bae, a U.S. citizen sentenced to 15 years hard labor for what Pyongyang said were crimes against the state, a U.S. State Department spokesman said.

Democracy watchdog Freedom House ranks Turkmenistan worst in world for 2013 press freedom.

N'Djamena says gang including opposition MP Saleh Makki arrested for plotting to destabilise Chad.

In a country as beautiful as South Africa, you might expect environmentalism to be a big issue. But green is not the colour, says Cath Everett

Opposition in New Delhi blaming government for failing to protect convicted bomber and spy Sarabjit Singh who died in Lahore.

Former chief prosecutor Col Morris Davis launches initiative to shut down US military prison on Cuba as hunger strike continues.

Questions over Sarkozy's right-hand man who sold two paintings by Andries van Eertvelt for €500,000.

Giorgos Kaminis assaulted by reportedly armed neo-Nazi Golden Dawn lawmaker Giorgos Germenis.

Director Tyler the Creator says commercial depicting black people as criminals taken out of context.

Greece's anti-immigrant Golden Dawn party scuffled with police who stopped them distributing food exclusively to Greeks in Athens' central square on Thursday (May 2) ahead of the Greek Orthodox Easter holiday on May 5.

Christian tour operator Bae allegedly photographed starving children and dissenter executions in pariah state.

Paedophile killer Steve Smith executed by lethal injection

Kenya’s former PM Raila Odinga said Simone talked Gbagbo out of deal that could have avoided 2010 post-election massacre.

South Africa considering re-erection of border fences to stop incursions into Kruger National Park from Limpopo.

Two-minute clip show the animals in an all-out brawl with one chimpanzee brandishing a stick.

Boston police arrest three more suspects as Tsarnaev brothers' bombing investigation widens.

Demonstrators take to the streets in Athens, Istanbul Seoul, Paris and other capitals.

Violence flares up between Buddhists and Muslim Rohingya after crowd attacks mosque.

An Italian traveller reveals the shocking reality of Dubai's jails in an exclusive interview with IBTimes UK.

Foxtel advert using act of bestiality to promote Australian TV channel causes outrage in Sydney.

IBTimes UK documents reveal Benetton had prolonged links with Rana Plaza manufacturers