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This week, Syria’s new rulers were forced to backtrack, after proposed changes to the national education curriculum sparked concerns about ‘Islamisation’. 

Thousands of South Koreans have staged rival rallies in adjacent streets for and against the impeached president. 

Donald Trump has hit out angrily after a judge ordered that he be sentenced on January 10th in his New York hush-money case.

King Charles has sent his condolences to the family of Edward Pettifor, whose stepmother, Tiggy Legge-Bourke, was William and Harry’s former nanny. 

He’s one of Brazil’s greatest directors – known for ‘Central Station’ and ‘The Motorcycle Diaries’. But Walter Salles has not made a film in 12 years – partly because he’s spent so much time on his latest movie – ‘I’m Still Here’.

We spoke to Louise Wateridge who has just returned from Gaza. She’s a Senior Emergency Officer at UNRWA, the United Nations agency which provides aid for Palestinians.

More details have emerged about the driver who murdered 14 people in New Orleans early on New Year’s Day. 

By shutting the pipeline, Ukraine itself will lose €1 billion a year in gas transit fees, but the Ukrainians are determined to stop Russia using energy to fund its war machine.

More than 50 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli strikes in Gaza so far today, according to local officials.

We spoke earlier to Colin Clarke, a counter-terrorism expert and director of research at security consulting firm The Soufan Group.

A former college football player, an 18 year old about to start her nursing training, a young mother, a high school graduate, many of the 14 New Orleans victims were celebrating the new year and a new chapter of their lives.

179 people were killed when the Jeju aeroplane crashed into the concrete-topped mound on Sunday morning.

The journalist and author Jonathan Alter has written a biography of Jimmy Carter.

South Korea’s acting president has ordered an urgent investigation into the cause of the Jeju Air crash.

Jimmy Carter’s single term in office was followed by the longest post-presidency in history.