Myanmar pledged that Rohingya Muslims who fled to Bangladesh by the hundreds of thousands would start their journey home later this month. However, few believe that will happen.
David Sim
Jan 02, 2018
Will the left support the struggle of the Iranian people?
James Bloodworth
Jan 02, 2018
Saudi prisoner Raif Badawi urges Iranian revolutionaries to not forget jailed Brit Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Mohammed Ali Taheri after protests break out across Iran.
Isabelle Gerretsen
Jan 02, 2018
A Zimbabwean family has been living in an airport terminal for two months in what many are describing as a real life version of The Terminal film, which starred Tom Hanks.
James Hetherington
Jan 01, 2018
A photo depicting three young Moroccan migrants getting some rest in washing machines at a Paris launderette has attracted attention online.
Charlotte Tobitt
Dec 29, 2017
The Arrels Foundation in Barcelona is fighting to end homelessness and has released an innovative series of images featuring people who have lived on the streets.
Charlotte Tobitt
Dec 29, 2017
A North Korean nuclear scientist who defected to China in November committed suicide after he was sent back
Nicole Rojas
Dec 29, 2017
Former President Alberto Fujimori has finally apologised to Peruvians for the wrongs committed under his government in the 1990s.
David Sim
Dec 27, 2017
A few desperately sick children have been evacuated to hospitals in Damascus from the besieged rebel-held enclave of Eastern Ghouta, but many more remain.
David Sim
Dec 27, 2017
British universities have been warned they could be fined if they restrict free speech on campus, but campaigners say that it banning speakers is the fault of student unions.
Brendan Cole
Dec 26, 2017
Two years after being detained, Wu Gan was found guilty of subverting state power, spreading false information and insulting people online.
Lara Rebello
Dec 26, 2017
A Russian couple who fled to fight for Islamic State extremists left their daughter an orphan after they both died in combat. She has now been reunited with her grandparents.
James Hetherington
Dec 22, 2017
Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein, a Jordanian prince and diplomat, revealed his intentions to stand down as High Commissioner for Human Rights at the United Nations.
Josh Robbins
Dec 21, 2017
IBTimes UK asked 12 Getty Images photojournalists to choose their most memorable photo of the year and tell us the story behind the picture.
David Sim
Dec 21, 2017
Belgium was heavily criticised in September when it allowed a delegation of Sudanese officials to travel to Brussels and identify apparent illegal immigrants.
Josh Robbins
Dec 20, 2017
European Court of Justice rules that sharia law's 'triple talaq', Islamic instant divorce, not legal under EU legislation.
Isabelle Gerretsen
Dec 20, 2017
The term describes how the pressure to be 'manly' and 'aggressive' negatively shapes how men behave. Some argue it's the reason for rape and sexual assault.
Ruchira Sharma
Dec 19, 2017
The immigrants were shackled at the hands and feet throughout the ordeal. Some claimed they were not properly fed, hydrated, or allowed to use the bathroom.
Josh Robbins
Dec 18, 2017
Ten Indonesian men have been jailed for their role in a gay sauna sex party that led to the arrests of more than 140 participants back in May.
Josh Robbins
Dec 18, 2017
The Finsbury Park imam, who was deported to the US and convicted of 11 terror charges, is appealing against his detention at the maximum security ADX Florence prison in Colorado.
Josh Robbins
Dec 17, 2017
Britain has never separated faith and state, and the result is a terrible muddle in the education system.
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown
Dec 15, 2017
El Salvador upholds 30-year aggravated homicide sentence of Teodora del Carmen Vásquez in stillbirth case. El Salvador has one of most draconian abortion laws in the world.
Isabelle Gerretsen
Dec 14, 2017
Australian photojournalist Ted McDonnell documents life in Happyland, a ramshackle collection of shelters built around a rubbish dump outside Manila.
David Sim
Dec 14, 2017
Activists have criticised Tanzania's leadership after President John Magufili pardoned two high-profiled child rapists amid calls to arrest pregnant schoolgirls.
Nicole Rojas
Dec 13, 2017
Our 2017 gallery kicks off with Barack Obama shedding a tear and ends with his successor inflaming the Middle East.
David Sim
Dec 13, 2017
Shyma's risque pop video in deeply conservative country lands her two-year jail sentence for inciting debauchery.
Isabelle Gerretsen
Dec 13, 2017
Laura Plummer, a British woman arrested in Egypt for smuggling prescription drugs, may have to spend more time in jail before her case is properly heard.
Nicole Rojas
Dec 13, 2017
MPs are calling for buffer zones to be introduced around abortion clinics after hearing of harassment by pro-life protesters.
Nicole Rojas
Dec 13, 2017
CBS News uncovered a culture of systematic sexual misconduct at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, which is a feeder school to the US Air Force.
Josh Robbins
Dec 12, 2017
Female North Korean defector reveals her horrific ordeal at the hands of the brutal Kim Jong-un regime.
Vasudevan Sridharan
Dec 12, 2017