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2015-01-05

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USA

Jury selection begins in Boston bombing trial

Jury selection has begun in the trial of Boston marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, accused of killing three people and injuring 260 others

USA

Sunshine and love Florida lifts statewide ban on same- sex marriage

Florida becomes the 36th US state to allow same sex marriage with the county of Miami-Dade leading the way. The ruling came after a judge lifted her

Sport

Dakar 2015: Joan Barreda clinches stage 2

Spain’s Joan Barreda overcame a nervous start to clinch the second stage of this year’s Dakar Rally, which is divided into 13 stages, crossing

Sport

Two US ski hopefuls die in Austrian avalanche

Team USA ski hopefuls Ronnie Berlack and Bryce Astle have died in an avalanche in the Austrian Alps while skiing close to their base near Soelden

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Italy

Fire hinders search for victims of Norman Atlantic Ferry

Fierce heat and thick smoke continue to hamper the search for victims aboard the Norman Atlantic Ferry one week after it caught fire en route from

Sport

Barcelona sack Andoni Zubizarreta

Spanish giants Barcelona have announced the departure of sporting director Andoni Zubizarreta after terminating his contract on Monday. The

Indonesia

Aviation officials suspended as Indonesia goes after the guilty of AirAsia flight 8501

Progress in concluding the drama of the AirAsia flight that crashed in the sea off Indonesia continues very slowly, as three more bodies are found

France

Thank you for this biopic: Film rights bought to Trierweiler's revenge memoir

Valerie Trierweiler, the former partner of the French president will see her kiss-and-tell book transferred to the big screen. The film rights to

Germany

PEGIDA darkens immigration climate in Germany

Two months ago when the PEGIDA movement formed in Germany it had only a few hundred followers. The name is an acronym in German, standing for

Sport

The Corner: Valencia end Madrid's winning run, Real Sociedad stun Barcelona

Welcome back to The Corner, our weekly round-up from the world of football. Spanish giants Real Madrid failed to start the new year as they finished

Germany

2015: 'Grexit' reloaded?

Another year and yet more speculation about Greece’s future in the eurozone. Germany’s Der Speigel magazine reported last week that Chancellor Angela

France

France: mayor's refusal to give Roma baby burial plot sparks outrage

The decision by the mayor of Champlan, south of Paris to deny a Roma baby a burial plot has sparked outrage amongst Roma groups and local residents

Cinema

What's on in 2015?

In ‘Tomorrowland’, a gifted teenager and a former boy-genius set out on a dangerous mission to unearth the secrets of an enigmatic location caught

China

Chinese man spends 72 hours performing and sleeping on a tightrope

A Chinese man has diced with death by spending 72 hours on a steel wire 50 metres above the ground performing stunts, walking backwards and hanging

Japan

Thousands of Japanese workers pray for good luck at Tokyo's Kanda Myojin shrine

Two hundred thousand Japanese workers queued in line for well over an hour to get into this Tokyo shrine that's thousands of years old. Praying here is said to bring good luck. It's become an annual

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Two children pulled from rubble after deadly landslide destroys homes in Bosnia

A landslide destroyed several houses in the central Bosnian town of Kakanj, leaving one person dead and three injured, according to police. Among

World News

Catastrophe as South Australian wildfires spread and temperatures rise accompanied by hot winds

Firefighters in South Australia are battling to bring a number of wildfires under control as weather conditions look set to hamper efforts over the

Culture news

Red Army Choir Gets Happy

Pharrell Williams’ insanely viral ‘Happy’ has probably been covered dozens and dozens of times, but this is certainly one of the most unusual

Lebanon

Under-strain Lebanon imposes visa restrictions on Syrian refugees

The Lebanese, struggling to cope with the more than a million and a half refugees from Syria they are currently looking after on their soil, are

USA

Why the trial of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is expected to be so difficult

China

[Watch] Shocking road rage accident: Driver of moving bus dragged away from wheel

Cinema

Coming soon in 2015

‘Into the Woods’ is a Disney adaptation of Stephen Sondheim’s award-winning musical. With a star-studded cast including Meryl Streep, James Corden

Italy

Italian pop icon Pino Daniele dies

One of Italy’s best-loved singer-songwriters, Pino Daniele, has died aged 59. Steeped in his the sounds of his native Naples, Daniele burst onto the

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Probe ongoing into Norman Atlantic ferry fire

Mexico

Families of 43 missing Mexican students to open their own search after 'corrupt system' fails them

After months of uncertainty about the fate of their loved ones and years of living in fear of Mexico's drugs gangs and police alike the Gerreros families take up the hunt for their sons and daughters

Culture news

Secretly shoot your marriage proposal in the Big Apple

‘I’m like a spy,’ says self-appointed engagement photographer Vlad Leto. For the past few years, the 30-year old Russian has been secretly taking