World

Allen Pizzey visits Agnone, a town in Italy that owes its success to never changing the design of the bells they've been making for a thousand years.

In China the labyrinthine streets known as Hutongs re-define your typical "old" part of town - some date back centuries, to the Yuan and Ming dynasties. But many such ancient passages have been bulldozed into history. Seth Doane explores the oldest surviving commercial street in Beijing.

Unclear if missiles are further provocation or routine tests, as four launches in two days aimed at sea

Malcolm Shabazz was beaten to death in a bar near Mexico City; hundreds mourn civil rights icon's grandson

India's growing geopolitical importance on display as China and Afghanistan make high-level visits

State radio said two men were executed after being convicted of spying for Mossad and the CIA

Syrian president said in a newspaper interview that he won't step down before elections

Live TV broadcast at the festival was briefly interrupted when what sounded like gunshots sent people scurrying for cover

According to a study by Initial Washroom Hygiene, handbags have up to ten times the level of microbiological activity on them than an average toilet seat. Willem Marx reports from London.

Boeing 737 carrying more than 130 people caught fire as Russian carrier was landing at airport