Sunday 9th of November marks 25 years since the Berlin Wall was torn down and the division between the east and the west of the city ended

At least 10 people were arrested as Russell Brand joined protests in central London organised by the collective anti-capitalist group Anonymous to mark Guy Fawkes Night

A driver has rammed a van into pedestrians in East Jerusalem in a suspected Hamas terror attack, killing one person and injuring a dozen more

The 29-year-old Cambridge graduate’s descent from a British banker working in the heart of Asia’s finance industry, to a man accused of murdering two Asian women in the former colony have been the talk of Hong Kong and the wider world

Antonio Olmos, internationally-renowned Mexican photographer who is recognised for his unique documentary style, has returned to the land of his birth for the first project of the ‘Sony RX Celebrate the Streets’ series

As the nights draw in, the clocks go back and a chill returns to the air, it's time once again to turn our thoughts to all things spooky, spectral, mysterious and monstrous

The four-day Hindu festival, Chhath Puja, the worship of the setting and rising Sun, is dedicated to the God of Sun (Surya) and Chhatti Mai (Goddess of Power)

Surrey Police says three officers being investigated over decision to return guns to puppy farmer despite warnings

We don’t often see them wandering the streets, but at any given time there are more than 100,000 stray dogs in the UK

Extraordinary tales of everyday heroism have been illustrated beautifully by renowned US photographer Steve McCurry in the new 2015 Lavazza Calendar

A Canadian soldier has been shot and at least one gunman has been killed following an incident at the National War Memorial in Ottawa

Oscar Pistorius sentenced to five years in prison over culpable homicide of Reeva Steenkamp

The Loose Women presenter passed away on Sunday "in her husband's arms", according to her agent Sue Latimer

A group led by a North Korean defector living in a container-box home near the world's most militarised border has provoked yet more division between South and North Korea

Students of the Ayotzinapa Teacher Training College have started protests, demanding the government find 43 of their classmates missing since last month's deadly clashes, outside the City Hall in Chilpancingo

Isis fighters backed by tanks and artillery have pushed into an embattled Syrian town on the border with Turkey and taken three districts after heavy street battles with the town's Kurdish defenders

A US serviceman has been killed and two are missing after a powerful typhoon slammed into central Japan this morning, stalling trains and flights and triggering mudslides

The last moments of hikers who died during the eruption of Mount Ontake in late September have been captured in poignant images found on phones and cameras

Police in Thailand have paraded the two Burmese workers who confessed to killing two British tourists in front of cameras to reconstruct the murders

The eyes of the world are on Hong Kong , as unrelenting images of the clashes between pro-democracy protesters and police continue to emerge

They may not be known for their love of gingerly balancing on a board as they take to the waves, but that didn't stop the organisers of this dog surfing competition from giving these canines the opportunity to do exactly that

Ahmad Ke, a 17-year-old student, left his parents behind in the Syrian Isis stronghold of Raqqa two days ago, by chance on the night of the first of the US air strikes on the city