Some 128,000 people are thought to have been murdered in Syrian jails at the hands of the Assad regime. Thousands were tortured to death. Now, Europe is leading the charge to bring the perpetrators to justice.

Malaysian rescuers play voice recordings of missing Franco-Irish teenager Nora Quoirin’s mother on Friday as they search for the lost 15-year-old by the jungle near the resort where she was last seen.

Trick or Tweet? Trump denounces impeachment "witch hunt"

A new exhibition details the operation that killed 9/11 mastermind Osama bin Laden, with a model of the Pakistani villa where he lived and testimonies from those who planned and carried out the famous raid.

The death toll from a powerful quake that hit the southern Philippines climbs as rescuers hunt for survivors.

Multiple accidents on the Dolphin Estate area in Lagos but no life was lost.

The first official football to be played in western Europe since March took place to little fanfare on Saturday, behind closed doors in the Faroe Islands, a country with a population of only 52.000. In the last of Saturday's five games, three-time national champions Víkingur Gøta fought out a nil-nil draw with Argja Bóltfelag.

It is a sobering statistic: eleven deaths at sea in ten years. Along the coastline of France's Reunion Island, surfers, but also swimmers, are regularly attacked and sometimes killed by sharks. For the island paradise, it's a problem that's causing major concern for the surfing community and the tourism sector. Our reporters Clovis Casali and Julien Sauvaget went to the French overseas department in the Indian Ocean to find out what's being done to shake off its "Shark Island" image.

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In Ribe, a medieval town in the west of Denmark, long considered the capital of witchcraft, the museum of witch hunt tells the story of persecutions that are generally forgotten in history books and belong to the collective imagination.

It is not known how many of the reptiles remain at large. So far, 27 have been captured after they escaped from a commercial breeding farm earlier this week.