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Hindu temples ban new £5 note over 'animal fat'
Rainbow Cafe in Cambridge is one of the cafés refusing to accept the notes
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Body parts found after Indonesian plane missing
Airplane seats and suitcases along with body parts were recovered by fishermen off Riau Islands Saturday afternoon
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US woman alleges gang-rape in Delhi
Delhi police launched a formal investigation Saturday after receiving a direct complaint from the woman
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Mocked for his tweets, Trump fires back
Trump said "Saturday Night Live" is unwatchable
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Raul Castro vows to defend Fidel's revolution
Capping a nine-day mourning period, Castro's ashes will be interred on Sunday during a "simple" ceremony
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First buses take Aleppo residents back to abandoned homes
Passengers pressed their faces against the glass to catch glimpses of neighbourhoods reduced to rubble
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Trump attends 'Villains and Heroes' costume party dressed as himself
Trump entered the party hosted by the Mercer family, one of his biggest donors
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Big data helped Trump even after he scorned it
Trump's stealth digital campaign allowed the Republican billionaire to fine-tune his message
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The snake-catching tribe saving lives in India
India has 244 snake species and the four most venomous are found throughout the country
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Spain rescues 92 migrants off the southern coast
The group included three women and a child as well as a boy who had to be hospitalised
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Afghan teen arrested over German murder-rape
The 17-year-old Afghan was arrested on Friday after his DNA was found at the scene of the crime
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Afghan Taliban publicly hang university student over 'spying'
Incident was widely condemned in Afghanistan with many saying the action refreshed memories of harsh Taliban rule
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Up to 40 feared dead in blaze at California party
Friends and families of partygoers took to social media to search for news about their loved ones
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Stephen Hawking discharged from Rome hospital
Hospital sources say Hawking is in a good condition and is returning to Britain
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At least nine dead in California warehouse fire
Fire officials were still trying to determine how the fire started, says official
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Iran says extension of sanctions act shows US unreliable
US officials say the Iran Sanctions Act renewal would not infringe the nuclear agreement
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Media silence across Italy on eve of crunch referendum
Prime minister Matteo Renzi is hoping for a last-minute turnaround in voter sentiment in his favour
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Muslim woman harassed, called 'terrorist' in US
Three suspects assaulted the woman and asked her to take off her hijab in New York City; they’re on the run
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First plane arrives with bodies of Brazil footballers killed in crash
The disaster on Monday killed 71 people
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Le Pen victory would be 'body blow' to Europe: David Cameron
He said the demand for and benefit of free trade, travel, specialisation, technology, innovation were not going away
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Indonesian police plane with 15 on board goes missing
The plane is thought to have crashed between the islands of Mensanak and Sebangka
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Australian judge refuses to hear Muslim woman's evidence until she removes niqab
Judge said removing veil was necessary to determine her expression
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Egyptian man grows 'Beard of Bees', hopes to promote apian benefits
Mohamed Hagras wants to show that bees are not aggressive
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Afghan Taliban hang university student over suspected assassination
Taliban insurgents accused him of being involved in the assassination of Taliban intelligence official Mullah Mirwais
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Is Twitter about to ban Donald Trump?
Facebook on the other hand has already indicated that it would not ban Trump even if he broke the site’s rules
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India rubbishes 'bogus' Pakistani claim of repelling submarine
Indian Navy chief says there was no submarine deployed in the area of Pakistani claims
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Heart of Asia conference kicks off in Amritsar
Aziz earlier said his visit to India could be used to “defuse the tension” between the nuclear-armed neighbours
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Anthony Bourdain on the one kind of food you should never eat
Bourdain says he'll never Icelandic fermented shark and Namibian warthog rectum again
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House adopts massive defense bill, sees changes under Trump
Republican lawmakers say they expect to revisit issues once Republican Donald Trump is in the White House
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Victims of Colombia crash take final flights home to Brazil
Bolivia will take "drastic measures" to determine what caused the crash
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Move to name street after Steve Jobs, shakes Paris suburb to the core
Among other suggestions was Alan Turing
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Saudi labour minister sacked
The labour minister headed efforts to help tens of thousands of unpaid foreign workers
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Merkel to chart 2017 election battle at party congress
Merkel has admitted that the general election will be "more difficult than any before it"
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Nations set to approve fund to protect cultural heritage
Representatives of some 40 countries are expected to approve on Saturday establishing a fund to protect heritage sites
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Tense ties kept Obama from visiting Pakistan
Washington sees relationship with Pakistan as vital
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Taliban kill 23 civilians in Afghanistan
The Afghan military has also suffered at least 2,000 deaths since January
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Could Trump drive Hollywood out of Cuba?
Recent statement by US president-elect casts doubt on relations between the two countries
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Michigan moves to block presidential recount in state -statement
Schuette criticized Green Party presidential nominee Jill Stein for what he called an "inexcusable" request
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UK foreign minister stands firm on immigration talk
Boris Johnson denies contradicting government policy on immigration during private conversations with EU ambassadors
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Petrol tanker explosion kills 14 in Nigeria
Eight more victims were taken to hospital with burns, two of them in 'very critical condition', say eyewitnesses
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Danish prosecutor files charges against Uber
It has now been established that drivers have been driving in violation of taxi legislation, says chief prosecutor
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Trump team eyes proposed new non-nuclear sanctions on Iran
Officials from the President-elect's team are in touch with Republicans on the issue
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Pro-EU candidate defeats Zac Goldsmith in 'Brexit by-election'
Goldsmith had resigned in protest at the government's decision to back a new runway at London's Heathrow airport
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Over 380,000 Afghans return from Pakistan in 2016: UNHCR
These are unprecedented numbers we did not anticipate, says spokesperson
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Iran says it will respond to US sanctions renewal
Iran has appropriate responses for all situations, says foreign ministry spokesperson
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55 world heritage sites in danger
Conflict, earthquakes and other natural disasters pose major problems to world heritage sites
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Russia says foreign spies plotted huge cyberattack
Statement says the attacks were aimed at destabilising Russia's financial system including activities of major banks
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Pakistani-Canadian teen left in intensive care after baseball bat attack
The suspects were described as white and his aunt worried the attack was a hate crime
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Anger rises after India scraps old notes at petrol pumps
Banks and ATMs have also been running out of cash with limits being put on withdrawals
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Russian cargo ship burns up after launch for International Space Station
Russia's space agency says the loss will not affect the ISS system's normal operations