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Fallujah has been under the militants' control for more than two years

Swarms of insects are threatening the monument

Aung San Suu Kyi asked for time and space to deal with issues relating to the country's Rohingya Muslim minority

Animal who killed 45-year-old at his home in Cleator Moor is destroyed as police assess three others seized from same house A man has died after being attacked by a dog at his home in Cumbria. The 45-year old man was kil...

Killing of 10 Protestant workmen was believed to have been carried out by IRA despite republican organisation denying it all these years The sole survivor of an IRA massacre of 10 protestant workmen in the 1970s has call...

When a Baltimore judge on Monday decides the fate of one of six officers charged in the Freddie Gray case, a city that seethed with unrest over the death of the 25-year-old prisoner will get its long-awaited first verdic...

Austria's presidential election will come down to the 750,000 mail-in ballots left to be counted. The country's interior minister said after counting the ballots cast at polling stations on Sunday, Norbert Hofer of the F...

Concerns grow that Buddhist extremism may flourish unless country's new democratic leaders counter discrimination against minorities At the entrance to Thaungtan village there's a brand new sign, bright yellow, and beari...

As one of the most powerful Democrats in Washington, Florida Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz was expected to have an easy 2016 re-election race - then along came Bernie Sanders.

Schools should be on the frontlines of peace, not war

A wealthy foreign family has registered a bid for BHS in the hope the chain can be rescued this week, Sky News learns.

Tunisia's Islamist Ennahda party has voted to separate its political and religious work, part of the group's effort to cast itself as a modern political party in line with the North African country's secular heritage

Police release CCTV images of a suspect and say the child is "very upset" and worried about where the photo may end up.

Indian national is third to die while two people are missing as experts say bottlenecks may have contributed to deaths Three climbers have died and two are missing on Everest, underlining the risks involved as mountainee...

I was lucky with my housemates when I came out. But some people arrive at university bearing the scars of abuse: they shouldn't have to rely on luck I'd describe my living situation at university as lucky. When I came ou...

Israeli police say forces shot dead a Palestinian woman after she tried to stab a police officer at a West Bank checkpoint. …

The German government says politically motivated acts of violence with a right-wing motive rose more than 40 percent last year as the country saw a large influx of migrants

Two other people lost their lives over a deadly weekend on the world's highest summit

In the Iraqi-American Christian community, he is revered as a hero who delivered thousands from persecution at the hands of Muslim extremists, but in the U.S. halls of justice, Robert DeKelaita is regarded as a criminal ...

Two very different visions of the hell that is war are seared into the minds of World War II survivors on opposite sides of the Pacific. …

Australia's dual Olympic shooting champion Michael Diamond is charged by police, jeopardising his chances of a seventh Games.

About 30 climbers are suffering frostbite or illness on Mount Everest, after two more died from apparent altitude sickness.