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Brittany Maynard death inspires California drive to legalise assisted suicide
A bill has been introduced by two Democratic senators to make assisted dying legal.
PEGIDA leader resigns after posing as Hitler and calling refugees 'scumbags'
Lutz Bachmann appeared in a newspaper sporting a Hitler moustache and haircut.
Japanese Christian held by Islamic State went back to find his friend
Journalist Kenji Goto was captured when he went back to Syria to rescue Haruna Yukawa.
Exorcising Lenin: protesters arrested in Red Square after holy water stunt
Members of the Blue Rider protest group splashed Lenin's tomb with water from a church.
Charlie Hebdo attackers urge more 'lone wolf' operations
Al Qaeda in Yemen has called for "individual jihad" against Western targets.
Palestinian stabs 10 on Tel Aviv commuter bus
A West Bank resident attacked the driver and passengers before being shot.
Japan PM: Islamic State hostage threat 'unacceptable'
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has condemned the threat to the lives of two Japanese purportedly taken captive by Islamic State militants.
'Black lives matter': demonstrators use Martin Luther King day to protest police 'brutality'
Racial equality in the US is once again in the spotlight after the deaths of unarmed black men.
Turkish PM: No peace in Middle East until there is a Palestinian state
Ahmet Davutoglu says that "provocations" like the Gaza bombing were contributing to the radicalisation of Muslims.
Mass protests in Chechnya against Charlie Hebdo cartoons
The country's Kremlin-backed leader says the images were "vulgar and immoral".
US will strip Palestinian funding over International Criminal Court, warns senator
Republican senator Lindsay Graham has said that funding will be cut off if Palestine files a complaint.
Yazidi sisters who escaped Islamic State are reunited and searching for missing relatives
Adeba Shaker, a 14-year-old from Iraq's minority Yazidi sect, said the first time she smiled after her abduction was when she was reunited with her younger sister.
Pope leaves Philippines after record crowds attend Mass
Pope Francis left the Philippines on Monday, ending a week-long trip to Asia that culminated with a Mass for about seven million people, the largest-ever crowd for a papal event.
Israeli strike in Syria kills senior Hezbollah figures
An Israeli helicopter strike in Syria killed a commander from Lebanon's Hezbollah and the son of the group's late military leader Imad Moughniyah, Hezbollah said.
Cameroon army frees 24 kidnapped by Boko Haram
Around 80 people were abducted in a cross-border raid, most of them children, and most remain missing.
Israel lobbies to cut ICC funding ahead of Gaza inquiry
Israel is lobbying member-states of the International Criminal Court to cut funding for the tribunal in response to its launch of an inquiry into possible war crimes in the Palestinian territories, officials said on Sunday.