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Saudi Arabia, Asia, Middle East
Women in Saudi Arabia have cast their first votes in the country's history, in municipal elections.
Egypt, Africa
Egyptian officials now say they are "90% sure" that there is a hidden chamber in King Tutankhamun's tomb.
United Kingdom, Europe
The 30-year-old adventurer Sarah Outen started her challenge in April 2011 at Tower Bridge and finished at the same point by kayak at 12:00 GMT.
United Kingdom, Europe
Her super sense of smell could change the way Parkinson's disease is diagnosed.
World
What can hands tells you about someone? Tim Booth has been photographing fingers, palms, nails and knuckles for more than 20 years. He says they can reveal much more about a person than you might think.
India, Asia
In August this year, the airport became totally self sufficient in meeting its energy needs after it installed a 12 megawatt solar plant close to the cargo terminal.
World
The mass bleaching is caused by rising water temperatures resulting from two natural warm currents and exacerbated by man-made climate change.
Europe, Syria
Vast numbers of migrants have made their way across the Mediterranean to Europe in 2015, sparking a crisis as countries struggle to cope with the influx, and creating division in the EU over how best to deal with resettling people.
Australia, Oceania
An Australian photographer has captured a rare moment of animal communion with a shot of a fur seal surfing a humpback whale off the New South Wales coast.
United Kingdom, Europe
The Queen has thanked well-wishers at home and overseas for their touching messages of kindness.
Syria, Turkey, Middle East, Asia
A huge online conversation is taking place around the picture of a dead 3-year-old Syrian boy. Will it change the way the world views Syrian refugee migrants?
Greece, Europe
Ms Thanou's appointment ends a week of fruitless negotiations as opposition party leaders tried unsuccessfully to form a government.
Egypt, Africa
An archaeologist says he may have found evidence that Nefertiti, the former Queen of Egypt, is secretly buried inside Tutankhamun's tomb.
United States, North America
Dubbed Concord 2.0, the jet would be capable of flying more than four times the speed of sound.
Peru, South America
Some of the captives said they had been kidnapped some 30 years ago. 26 of them were children, some of whom were born in captivity.
New Zealand, Oceania
Finnian Galbraith says that many people in New Zealand have stopped making the effort to say Maori words and names properly.
Bolivia, South America, Vatican City
If the Pope were to chew coca leaves during his visit to the Andean country it would provide strong backing for Mr Morales's campaign.
China, Asia
There are growing expectations that China will soon give details of its pledge to cut carbon emissions ahead of key UN climate talks.
France, Europe
The new Airbus A350 XWB that is flying daily displays at the Paris Air Show can claim several engineering firsts.
Guinea, Africa
They have shown an understanding of language and a sense of fairness, and now humans' closest primate cousins have even been found to share a taste for alcohol.
Brazil, South America
The newly discovered species are the fruit of five years of expeditions into the wilderness.
Vatican City, Europe
The agreement will define Catholic Church activities in areas controlled by the Palestinian Authority.
World
This is the tantalizing prospect revealed in the latest images to come down from the New Horizons spacecraft.
Venezuela, South America
The country may have the biggest oil reserves in the world, yet its economy is in crisis.
World
Mercury's dark surface was produced by a steady dusting of carbon from passing comets, a new study says.
Argentina, South America
Researchers said that the buildings were probably never used by fugitive Nazis, because they found they could live freely in Argentine towns.
Saudi Arabia, Asia, Middle East
The King Abdullah Economic City, (KAEC, pronounced "cake") is one of four new cities upon which the late monarch pinned his hopes for the future of his realm once the oil runs out.
Egypt, Africa
Developers say the new city would include 2,000 schools and colleges, more than 600 health care facilities, and create more than a million jobs.
Australia, Oceania
In the mid-1960s, Australian athlete Reg Spiers found himself stranded in London with no money to buy a plane ticket home. Desperate to get back to Australia in time for his daughter's birthday, he decided to post himself in a wooden crate.
Ethiopia, Africa
The 2.8 million-year-old specimen is 400,000 years older than researchers thought that our kind first emerged.
India, Asia
The couple say they were lonely for many years until Chunmun (their pet monkey) came into their lives.
United States, North America
The Microsoft founder said he didn't understand people who were not troubled by the possibility that AI could grow too strong for people to control.
World
The closest approach to Pluto is set for around 11:50 GMT on 14 July - at a miss distance of roughly 13,695 km from the surface.
World
Business as usual for the elite isn't a cost-free option - failure to tackle inequality will set the fight against poverty back decades.
United States, North America
They are now known as the Eco Goats - a herd much in demand for their ability to clear land of invasive species up and down America's East Coast.
India, Asia
What can be a more powerful statement for a woman to make about her society than being locked up simply for refusing to eat?
World
New varieties are key to solving the potential shortage issue, and the International Cocoa Quarantine Centre is the gatekeeper.
Africa, Nigeria, Botswana, South Africa, Guinea-Bissau, South Sudan, Burundi
From the Ebola outbreak in West Africa to the schoolgirls' kidnapping in Nigeria and the conflict in South Sudan, it's been a busy year for Africa.
World
Respondents in Africa are the happiest and most optimistic about the new year, according to a new survey.
United Kingdom, Europe
At the age of 12, Jordan Casey created a game that trended in the Apple iTunes store. Now 15, he's the chief executive of his own business.
World
Global international tourist numbers exceeded 1.1 billion in 2014, an increase of 4.7% on the previous year, according to the UN.
India, Asia
The new comic book has been launched to focus attention on the problem of sexual violence in India.
United Kingdom, Europe
Hawking says that humans, who are limited by slow biological evolution, couldn't compete and would be superseded.
Denmark, Europe
The 5,500-year-old Neolithic axe was found during archaeological surveys ahead of a multi-billion euro tunnel project.
United Kingdom, Europe
Can the hydrogen-powered Riversimple eliminate motoring's environmental impact?
Africa
Nana Kofi Acquah uses his travels to chronicle the lives of women at their best and worst.
Zambia, Africa
He is Africa's first white president in a black-majority state since the collapse of apartheid.
China, Asia
It's quite a challenge to win the race when you're running out of breathe... and oxygen.
United States, North America
A lawsuit submitted by a NGO seeks to have Tommy recognized as a person.
Liberia, Africa
Norway will pay the country $150M to achieve their goal by 2020.