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Buddhists celebrated Makha Bucha Day at a temple in Thailand.

Declassified US State Department document from 1946 says Poles treated Jews as badly as the Nazis. This week Poland's controversial new Holocaust law came into effect.

New homeowners in Houston were shocked to find a skeleton in their new home - but the gruesome find solves the mystery of a lonely woman who went missing three years ago.

Thousands sign petition asking President Donald Trump to allow South African white farmers to emigrate to US after land seizure vote.

A morbidly obese man who ballooned to more than 60 stone has died after dropping almost half his weight in five months for a TV show.

Stress is a significant contributor to poor mental health, low productivity and absenteeism for the UK workforce.

Bristol University's students' union will ban speakers who question the transgender status of women, known as Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminists

The US president Donald Trump will put steep tariffs on steel and aluminium imports of 25% and 10% respectively.

The Pennsylvania-based World Peace and Unification Sanctuary is not your everyday kind of church.

Austrian Vice Chancellor Heinz-Christian Strache claimed he had been slandered by followers of leftist group Linkswende after they made the offensive gesture at him.

Was he targeting Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida?

Ultra-nationalist candidate Vladimir Zhirinovsky called Ksenia Sobchak a "whore" during bad-tempered TV debate.

The horrific accident took place in the city of Hankou in China.

Russia has tested an "invincible" nuclear cruise missile that cannot be intercepted by enemy measures, claimed the country's president Vladimir Putin.

A pro-North Korea paper says the US must "give up its reckless hostile policy".

The three boys park their vehicle to give a local homeless man some money from their wallets.

Jewish groups, gun control advocates and social media users erupted with outrage over Young's "disgusting and reprehensible" remarks.

"The issue of a crime against humanity committed in time of war cannot be closed with just a word," said Moon Jae-in.

The National Park Service (NPS) has been trying to protect the slopes of Denali – formerly known as Mount McKinley – in Alaska.

Lebanon's Hezbollah produced a video game simulating the battlefields of Syria and allowing users to launch attacks on the Islamic State.

In the last few days, a few prisoners at Auckland Region Women's Corrections Facility have used violence to try and get their way.

Sally Jones, a former punk rocker, from Kent, who married fellow jihadist Junaid Hussain, was thought to have died in a drone strike in Syria, along with her son JoJo, 12.

One of Donald Trump's longest serving advisers, Hope Hicks, is quitting. Trump is now looking for his 5th communications head.

Russia says that military engineers have reportedly developed a plane-mounted laser that could be used in the event of a space war, which is feared by one US air force general.

Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School students go back to school after the shooting which killed 17 people.

Speaking about a possible run, she said that she "went into prayer," to help her decide for the 2020 election.

Ceremonial firing illegal in India but remains rife across South Asia.

Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri is in Saudi Arabia for the first time since his dramatic resignation from Riyadh in November last year.

Local prosecutor Carlos Bustamante told newspaper El Comercio the incident occurred around 9:20 am on Monday (26 February) when airport workers spotted three objects falling from a commercial flight.