Cologne has done its utmost to make sure that the Weiberfastnacht festival continues as normal, without any security worries
Trans-Pacific Partnership is causing major controversy as people fear it will affect labourers and those in less-developed countries
Chinese lanterns illuminate the gardens of Chiswick House to welcome the Lunar New Year.
Adolescent girls who have fled the conflict in Syria pose as their future selves - having achieved their goals.
Many women in Latin America have to pit their religious beliefs against the risk their babies could be born with brain defects.
Spring festival preparations under way for those planning to call in Lunar New Year, from Beijing to Croatia
Police have cleared a makeshift camp along disused railway tracks on the edge of Paris that was home to hundreds of Roma people.
From flirting with Jeremy to threatening to punch Gemma, here is the best of CBB star, Stephanie Davis
Five judges will decide whether Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code, which describes homosexuality as an 'unnatural offence', can be overturned.
Satellite images of eight wetlands – areas of land that are permanently or seasonally saturated with water.
150 employees participated in training exercise on what to do when an animal escapes its enclosure
Millions of people are going home for family reunions to celebrate the Lunar New Year in the world's largest annual human migration.
The 1957 Ferrari 335 S Sport Scaglietti was once driven by Stirling Moss at the Cuban Grand Prix in 1958.
The annual Tough Guy Challenge is an epic 15km obstacle course featuring mud, fire and electric shocks.
French artist illustrates how the natural life cycle of myths and idols involves their destruction.
Venice Carnival kicks off under tight security following terror attacks in Paris and sexual assaults in Cologne.
Study used 2.5 million photos to assess population numbers of tropical animals, including plenty of selfies.
Works by Picasso, Matisse, Cezanne, Monet, Warhol and more up for sale at Sotheby's and Christie's in London.
House workers use fumigators as part of preventative measures against the Zika virus across Americas
Of the 1.2 million refugees and migrants who applied for asylum in Europe in 2015, nearly 350,000 were children.
In 1986, NASA's Space Challenger launched from the Kennedy Space Center, exploding 73 seconds later due to technical malfunctions
Performances by exotic animals were banned by Chinese government in 2012 but the ruling had little effect.
Svalbard hopes to attract winter tourists with dog sled rides, ice caves and the northern lights.
French farmers are demonstrating against falling prices of produce by flooding streets with milk and littering the highways with hay
Brazil is facing a surging number of babies born with abnormally small heads.
The curfew bars residents from leaving their homes, and prevents journalists and observers from witnessing the fighting.
The dolls are thought to invite benevolent spirits to possess them, with the hope that they will bring good luck, wealth and protection from harm.
Storm of the century batters US east coast residents leaving billions of dollars of damage in its wake.
Elderly survivors return to the former Nazi concentration and extermination camp on International Holocaust Memorial Day.
The annual Up Helly Aa festival concludes with the burning of a replica Viking longboat.