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We look at 13 pictures from events around the world

Taking of unmanned underwater vehicle in international waters near the Philippines has triggered a diplomatic protest

Vijithamuni Rohana de Silva served two and a half years in prison for trying to murder the former Indian leader

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DPA news agency said that the man behind the wheel was an asylum seeker from Afghanistan or Pakistan

Research debunks popular claims

The man was detained in the Brussels commune of Schaerbeek on Monday

The brothers were pleased after the Mail and Hopkins accepted the allegations were fake

Slovakia has been one of the toughest critics of the European Union's response to unprecedented inflows of migrants

Germany is in a state of war after a man drove a truck into a crowd at a Berlin Christmas market

The man who plowed a truck into a crowded Christmas market in central Berlin is believed to be a Pakistani refugee

Attack on Islamic Centre in central Zurich leaves three injured

Aviation ratings website assessed airlines on the basis of quality of their product and services

Not the first instance of its kind

Hate crimes in New York have sprung in recent months with NYPD officials vowing to swiftly prosecute suspects

Video had been delivered to both US and Canadian officials before being posted on YouTube late on Monday night.

21 pictures showcasing the wintry weather across the globe

East London Mosque received up to 10 tonnes of food donations after hosting 'The Big Food Drive’ during Friday prayers

Twelve people were killed and almost 50 wounded when the lorry tore through the crowd Monday

Most of China's smog is blamed on the burning of coal for electricity and heating.

Israeli settlements are seen as major stumbling blocks to peace efforts

Most adults in Africa have at least one risk factor

The Turkish Premier has launched a string of ambitious schemes to transform the country's infrastructure

French judges on Monday found the IMF chief guilty of negligence

The tunnel required an investment of $1.2 billion (1.15 billion euros), including loans of $960 million

The strike killed Bilal al-Utabi and Abd al-Wahid al-Junabi

The truck made it as far as 80 metres into the Christmas market before coming to a halt

Electoral College unswayed by a last-ditch bid by die-hard opponents to bar the Republican's path to the White House

The scene certainly looks like a reminder of what we have seen in Nice

The war has killed more than 10,000 people and triggered humanitarian crises

The country has state-run internet cafes and wifi hotspots, but connection costs are prohibitively expensive

The radical hormone surges and physical changes of pregnancy lead to a change in the dynamics of the brain

'We qualify what happened as a terrorist act', says ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova

He has been engaged in an unsavoury public battle with Ratan Tata since his sacking in October as chairman

The ruling risks triggering a new leadership crisis at the International Monetary Fund

Iran's president says the bill could be used to check the performance of state institutions

Iran reached a multi-billion-dollar deal with Airbus on Monday to acquire 100 planes

The aircraft crash a week ago had sparked local protests followed by suspension of the flights

Some Hindus view menstruating women as impure and force them to remain in a hut or cowshed for days

29-year-old Fatima Ahmed says, "I feel like Trump’s been stalking me my whole life"

National Investigation Agency says all four gunmen who stormed the air base on Jan 2 were Pakistani nationals

At least 57 journalists have been killed around the world in 2016

Thousands are still waiting to leave, many of them without homes

Nation cancels national day celebrations in solidarity with people of Aleppo

Some Muslim women in India say they support Modi's proposal, although they are less sure about him

Ruschel was initially sat near the back of the plane when he was asked to move

Nusheen Bibi lives in fear of being expelled from the only country she has ever known

11 Islamic State militants killed in clashes, says Turkish military

Il-18 aircraft made an emergency landing 30 kilometres from an airfield near the town of Tiksi

Recent reports of Russian interference in our election should alarm every American