Ex-Harvard dean calls for 'brave spaces' at universities to protect free speech
Former vice-dean of Harvard Law School, John Palfrey, has suggested that "brave spaces" are introduced at universities where students can freely express controversial views.
Oct 30, 2017
Sabah Khan admits to 'brutal' murder of elder sister Saima at Luton family home
Sabah Khan pleaded guilty to murdering her older sister Saima at their family home in Luton on 23 May 2016.
Oct 24, 2017
Czech government to buy pig farm built on Nazi concentration camp for £16m
Czech government to pay millions to tear down pig farm built on site of former Nazi concentration camp in Lety where hundreds of Roma people were killed during Second World War.
Oct 24, 2017
Ibrahim Halawa returning home to Ireland after four 'cruel' years in an Egyptian jail
Ibrahim Halawa spent more than four years in an Egyptian jail after he was arrested in 2013 at a protest in support of the Muslim Brotherhood.
Oct 24, 2017
Russian pop star reportedly tortured and killed in 'gay purge' in Chechnya
Zelimkhan Bakaev has been missing since August. Activists claim he was murdered within 10 hours of arriving in the Russian republic.
Oct 23, 2017
Muslim students protest Newcastle University's plans to turn prayer room into multi-faith space
Students say that they cannot pray five times a day as the university has restricted access to the room at weekends.
Oct 23, 2017
Palestinian festival drops film over French-Lebanese director's trips to Israel
Ziad Doueiri was ordered to appear before a Lebanese military court last month because his previous film was shot in Israel.
Oct 23, 2017
Register of LGBT people in former Soviet state Tajikistan sparks fear of new 'gay purge'
Authorities suggested that LGBT citizens in the Muslim-majority country would be subject to mandatory testing for sexually transmitted diseases.
Oct 20, 2017
96-year-old charged with complicity in Holocaust 70 years after working at concentration camp
The man allegedly supported "Operation Harvest Festival" in November 1943, when at least 17,000 Jews were shot dead in graves they had to dig themselves.
Oct 20, 2017
'Why you don't like me, dawg?': Black man hugs neo-Nazi at white supremacist event in Florida
White supremacist Randy Furniss was later punched while attending a speech by alt-right figurehead Richard Spencer in Florida.
Oct 20, 2017
Maryland gunman Radee Prince gathered colleagues for a meeting before opening fire
Prince had a history of violent behaviour towards and was fired from his previous job for allegedly punching a coworker.
Oct 20, 2017
The Moroccan minister for human rights called LGBT people 'scum'
Mustapha Ramid reportedly has referred to journalists as "traitors" and human rights activists as "hateful" in the past.
Oct 19, 2017
Spain to revoke Catalonia's autonomy as it threatens to formally declare independence
Spanish government rejects Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont's threat to declare independence unless talks are held.
Oct 19, 2017
Heartbroken mother speaks about death of Lidia Dragescu who fell from St Paul's Whispering Gallery
The 23-year-old biomedical student wrote her mother an emotional suicide note before falling 30 metres inside the cathedral.
Oct 19, 2017
Twin Taliban attacks at Afghanistan army base kill dozens
The attacks come just two days after Taliban gunmen stormed a police training centre in eastern Afghanistan, killing at least 74 people.
Oct 19, 2017
Nivea in racism row over African TV advert showing woman applying skin lightening cream
Billboards have sprung up in several African countries for a product that claims to "visibly lighten women's skin colour".
Oct 18, 2017
Far-right extremists arrested in France over terror plot targeting politicians and migrants
Police arrested ten suspects with ties to far-right extremist Logan Alexandre Nisin who wrote online that he planned to attack "blacks, migrants and jihadist scoundrels."
Oct 18, 2017
Malala Yousafzai targeted by trolls for wearing jeans and heels at Oxford University
The peace activist was slammed online for swapping her traditional Pakistani dress for casual Western clothing.
Oct 18, 2017
New York rabbi imprisoned for stealing millions from disabled preschoolers
Rabbi Samuel Hiller has been sentenced to up to three years in prison for using funding for children with special needs for his personal expenses and business interests.
Oct 18, 2017
Chechen 'gay purge' victim says he was locked in blood-soaked cell, beaten and humiliated by police
Russian President Vladimir Putin has promised that law enforcement agencies will investigate the allegations, but activists say the situation has not improved.
Oct 17, 2017
Two-thirds of Afghan girls do not go to school
Taliban threats, extreme poverty and child marriage prevent many girls in Afghanistan from getting a proper education.
Oct 17, 2017
Man tortured 8-year-old boy to death because he thought child was gay
Isauro Aguirre whipped, beat and burned his girlfriend's son, Gabriel Fernandez, with cigarettes for months before his death.
Oct 17, 2017
Men in France to be fined for catcalling women
New harassment laws would ban men from catcalling and wolf-whistling at women on French streets.
Oct 16, 2017
28 people found crammed inside rat-infested house with one bathroom in London
Enforcement officers were horrified to discover Romanian workers living in a vermin-riddled house with no working smoke detectors.
Oct 16, 2017
'I saw Isis militants shoot a two-year-old': Syrian civilians recall horror scenes as they flee Raqqa
Hundreds of civilians fled the city last week as US-led airstrikes on Isis fighters intensified to drive them from one of their last Syrian strongholds.
Oct 16, 2017
CCTV video captures murder of Egyptian Coptic priest amid ongoing Isis persecution
Members of the minority Coptic community have repeatedly been targeted by Isis-affiliated militants in recent months.
Oct 16, 2017
Government IT worker jailed in Dubai for holding up middle finger in traffic released
Jamil Mukadam faced up to six months in prison for using a "rude hand gesture" in public, amid fresh focus on Dubai's laws.
Oct 12, 2017
Kim Wall murder investigators find saw near route taken by Peter Madsen's submarine
Prosecutors believe the Danish inventor killed the journalist as part of a sexual fantasy and dismembered her body before throwing it overboard.
Oct 12, 2017
Oxford to ban all petrol and diesel cars by 2020
All cars, trucks, vans and buses must be electric vehicles in three years time. Anyone caught driving a non-electric car will be fined £60.
Oct 12, 2017
Colorado marijuana sales break $1bn barrier in first eight months of 2017
Cannabis sales have already brought in over $70 million in tax revenues for the US state so far this year.
Oct 12, 2017
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