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U.S. President Barack Obama and Italian President Sergio Mattarella met on Monday in the White House and discussed efforts to work together to combat the Islamic State in Libya.During a meeting in the Oval Office, Obama and…

Libya's central bank has fuelled the civil war by continuing to pay state salaries to all the country's myriad warring militias, Britain's ambassador to Tripoli said on Monday.Five years on the uprising that overthrew…

Islamic State (Isis) in Libya has become a threat to all of Europe and western military intervention may now be required, but only so long as the Libyans can first form a coherent national government, Sir Peter Ricketts, David Cameron’s…

A fully functioning replica of RMS Titanic is set to launch in 2018, 106 years after the original vessel sunk in the North Atlantic Ocean.This updated version, named Titanic II, is the brainchild of Australian billionaire Clive…

Two trains have crashed into each other in a head-on collision in southern Germany, killing at least nine people and injuring more than 150.Police said one of the trains had derailed and several carriages overturned, and said the…

Chinese communities across the globe are preparing to launch their annual new year celebrations.But while the colourful nature of the annual festivities are a familiar sight to many, the details of the associated ancient traditions…

In December 1923, TS Eliot wrote of his “enduring gratitude” to the therapist who helped him through a nervous breakdown while he was writing The Waste Land, in one of about 460 copies hand-printed by Virginia and Leonard Woolf, now one…

Exactly five years ago, the world was captivated by the sight of millions of Egyptians ousting a tyrant after decades of ironfisted rule.The world watched all this through acclaimed and garlanded coverage on al-Jazeera,…

Apple’s next iPhone will come in the same four colours — despite rumours that the company might opt for a bright colour scheme.Some reports had suggested that the phone might come in a bright pink, but it is likely to have the same…

Apart from the white Renault’s slow pace, and the occasional puff of something out of its window, the Oxitec frontline vehicle looks just like any other of the vans that criss-cross Piracicaba each morning, before the town is quite…