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Current Vice President refuses to seek Democratic nomination for 2016

The news from UNESCO headquarters coincided with international endeavours to calm violence

Deal is expected to close in the third calendar quarter of 2016

Laszlo says she intends to sue Facebook because it allegedly refused to remove groups threatening her

Israel's prime minister sparked controversy by saying 'Muslim elder had convinced Adolf Hitler to exterminate Jews'

Spokesman from Cambridgeshire Police confirms it to be military aircraft

The Gulf has a mounting problem with obesity, which is associated with diabetes

Authorities rule out caste violence as a motive for the crime but India has a long history of such incidents

Ban offered no concrete proposals to end the unrest, but spoke of returning to "meaningful negotiations"

Seven-decade-old alliance between Washington and Riyadh has been strained in recent years over Arab Spring uprisings

Kamahori participated in an endurance test involving 1,000 days of walking around mountain to achieve enlightenment

The officer was the fourth killed in the line of duty in the past 11 months

The letter approves implementation of a nuclear deal agreed with world powers in July

As drones become smaller, cheaper and easier to operate, animals increasingly must contend with airborne paparazzi

From Lahore to Berlin, have a look at some of the most colourful cities in the world

Military court says junta found group of people committed wrongdoing by making false claims of closeness to monarchy

Canada last year deployed CF-18 fighter jets to the region until March 2016

Netanyahu says Hitler only wanted to expel Jews from Nazi Germany, not to exterminate them

The three-foot-tall dwarf is reportedly enlisted with the al Qaeda linked group Jabhat al-Nusra

Honda is challenging rivals Toyota and Nissan which are also betting on the future of autonomous vehicles

Angela Merkel's government has repeatedly said it wants to speed up the processing of asylum and deportations

Girl's skeleton was found 1,100 km away from where police found her mother's bones five years ago

Norwegian ship-owner has disclosed it is seeking $50 million in compensation from marine unit of Volkswagen

Orlando-based company offers 'halal vacation homes' with curtained pool decks and rooms equipped with prayer mats

Attorney-General Muhammad Prasetyo says It would be carried out by injecting paedophiles with female hormones

19-year-old was fined with a sum of £16,000 and banished from community for trying to annul the marriage

Congressman Ted Poe urges Obama to not engage in any negotiations regarding a US-Pakistan civil nuclear agreement

Growing pressure on Abadi to seek Russian support puts him in delicate position of trying to appease ruling coalition

Visit is believed to be Assad's first foreign trip since outbreak of Syrian crisis in 2011

Women say the royal threatened to kill one of the women if she refused to 'party' with him

Chinese president is expected to make statement on planned Hinkley Point C nuclear plant in southwest England

Uber's share of the Chinese market has climbed from one per cent at the start of the year to about 30 per cent

The recalled models include the Yaris, Corolla, Camry and RAV4 sport utility vehicle produced between 2005 and 2010

Ban warns both Israelis and Palestinians to stand back from a 'dangerous abyss'

Google will lead the latest round and hold a minority stake, according to the statement

Joe Biden contradicts his past comments about the discussions leading up to the raid in May 2011

Mohamed received a full scholarship for his secondary and undergraduate education in Qatar

The visit will secure trade and investment deals worth more than £30 billion creating more than 3,900 jobs

The star has unusual fluctuations of light, leading some to theorise that an alien civilisation could have been found

The dead include a child and shooter's aunt and sister-in-law

Fighting near Lashkar Gah comes 3 weeks after Taliban won its biggest victory in 14 years capturing the town of Kunduz

If convicted, Marine Le Pen faces up to a year in prison or fine of up to $51,000

Zimbabwean hunter Theo Bronkhorst has denied any wrongdoing and says his family and business have been destroyed

Moscow says it has hit some 500 "terrorist" targets since launching a bombing campaign in Syria on September 30

Court documents name the prince as Majed bin Abdullah bin Abdulaziz, one of the late monarch's 35 known children

Since the start of the year, 15 arson attacks throughout the country have targeted refugee reception centres

43 Palestinians and one Arab Israeli have been killed in the upsurge of violence that began at the start of the month

Two children died at the scene while their parents were rushed to hospital in the capital

Both the women won the election against Conservative incumbents

Abdulkareem al-Khoder, one of 11 founding members of ACPRA, was sentenced to 10 years in prison