The Karabakh frontline units continue controlling the situation on the contact line, retaliated only in case of extreme necessity.

Seven of the dead were beheaded and six burned to death in fighting at a prison in Boa Vista, the capital of Roraima state.

A man suspected of organizing IS activities in Gaziantep blew himself up in an apartment as Turkish police were about to "neutralize" him.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry described the situation as "the largest of humanitarian disasters".

The small northern town holds great value for IS because of a prophecy of an apocalyptic battle, and features heavily in its propaganda.

The new report urges governments to provide facilities for the education of disabled children within a mainstream system.

The dispute over the four islands north of Japan's Hokkaido has prevented Tokyo and Moscow signing a peace treaty.

In total, 219 girls were captured and taken away. But it appears that some of the girls may have died in captivity.

China has poured in significant funding and efforts into its space programme, and plans to launch at least 20 space missions this year.

As much as 300 billion yen ($2.9 billion) of defense funding will be included in a third supplementary budget.