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IBTimes UK meets up with three Palestinian women who speak about daily lives under the shadow of oppression.

Shocking attack on five London police officers by pitbull has put dangerous pets back in the news.

Fighting spills over to border town of Azaz as Free Syrian Army rebels continue skirmishes with government forces.

Protesters demand the arrest of neighbourhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman for gunning down the unarmed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin.

Presidential palace looted and senior members of government arrested after rebels seize power.

Study shows how hard it is for most people to break their addiction to tobacco.

The EU sanctions might put a ban on her travel to the UK where she was born and brought up.

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono signed six memorandums of understanding with China.

Google dedicated a new doodle to celebrate the 125th birth anniversary of cubist painter Juan Gris.

World's largest anime convention returns after Japan tsunami and nuclear disaster led to cancellation of 2011 event.

Al-Quds University Jerusalem students dismiss actions of Toulouse massacre suspect as unrepresentative.

Perelman School of Medicine researchers at University of Pennsylvania claim to have discovered cause of baldness.

After seven years on the run wanted for murder, Malcolm Naden has been found by police in the Australian Outback. Which other villains have dodged the law for long periods?

On Monday 19 March 2012, Seattle News Media informed its readers that the city's Mayor, Mike McGinn will fly to Chongqing this week but: "...hizzoner...will have trouble matching up with his opposite number while there (because) party boss Bo Xilai was fired and disgraced last week, relieved of his duties as Chongqing's Communist Party Secretary in China's biggest political scandal in two decades..."

World Water Day is celebrated every year on 22 March.

Five Turkish police officers killed in clashes with Kurdistan Workers' Party.

Indiscriminate shelling, sniper attacks and house raids by Bashar al-Assad forces in Al-Qusayr, says Human Rights Watch.

Russia and China, who dissented on two previous UN resolutions on Syria, joined the other members to endorse Kofi Annan's six-point plan for cease-fire in Syria.

Deaths by liver disease have increased by 25 per cent between 2001 and 2009 in England.

Siege 'near end' as commandos reported inside and ambulance arrives.

This year's theme for the day is water and food security.

The soldiers were unhappy with the way the Toure government has handled insurgency.

A quarter of a million people die in hospitals in England every year.

French commandos on standby as seige of Mohammed Merah in Toulouse enters second day.

George Osborne's pledge to support lower and middle wage earners fails to wash with unions.

At least 800 houses are damaged in Guerrero after a powerful earthquake hit Mexico.

The French Ministry of Interior has denied that the suspected killer Mohammed Merah has been arrested.

Lot of efforts have been put in by people to create a world record in their name.

Death of Pope Shenouda III, who led Egypt's Coptic minority for 40 years, comes at a time of uncertainty for Christians in Egypt.