Imran Khan (centre) addresses his supporters during the fourth day of protests in Islamabad. Photograph: Bilawal Arbab/EPA. Jon Boone. Topics: News · World · Middle East · Nawaz Sharif; More Topics. Tue, Aug 19, 2014, 01:01. First published: Tue, Aug 19, ...

Kurdish men selling weapons at an arms market in Arbil, capital of the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq. Iraqi and Kurdish forces have today claimed to have recaptured Mosul Dam from the Islamis State group. Photograph: Azad Lashkari/Reuters.

Palestinians ride a donkey cart yesterday past the ruins of houses that witnesses said were destroyed during the Israeli offensive in Johr El-Deek village near the central Gaza Strip. Photograph: Reuters/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa. Michael Jansen. Topics: News ...

Kurdish forces, known as peshmerga, stand guard near Mosul dam at the town of Chamibarakat outside Mosul in Iraq yesterday. Photograph: AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed. Topics: News · World · Middle East · Alaa Shahine · Aziz Alwan · Barack Obama ...

View of damaged buildings where an aircraft carrying Eduardo Campos crashed in the residential area Na Rua Vahia de Abreu in Santos, Sao Paulo state, Brazil, today. Photograph: EPA. Previous Image Next Image. Topics: News · World · Americas · Dilma ...

Asian shares nudged higher over-night, tracking rallies in the United States and Europe. MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan added 0.3 per cent after jumping 1.5 per cent yesterday. Japan's Topix rose 0.5 per cent, while the Nikkei ...

French president François Hollande and German president Joachim Gauck greet each other during a ceremony of remembrance for the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of the first World War, at the Allied Memorial, in Cointe, near Liege, Belgium, yesterday.

The devastation in Longtoushan in China's Yunnan province following a magnitude 6.1 earthquake. China has sent 2,500 soldiers with life-detection instruments and digging equipment to the area. Photograph: EPA. Clifford Coonan. Topics: News · World ...

The devastation in Longtoushan in China's Yunnan province following a magnitude 6.1 earthquake. China has sent 2,500 soldiers with life-detection instruments and digging equipment to the area. Photograph: EPA. Clifford Coonan. Topics: News · World ...

The devastation in Longtoushan in China's Yunnan province following a magnitude 6.1 earthquake. China has sent 2,500 soldiers with life-detection instruments and digging equipment to the area. Photograph: EPA. Clifford Coonan. Topics: News · World ...

The devastation in Longtoushan in China's Yunnan province following a magnitude 6.1 earthquake. China has sent 2,500 soldiers with life-detection instruments and digging equipment to the area. Photograph: EPA. Clifford Coonan. Topics: News · World ...

Homebound passengers on a ferry ahead of the Eid al-Fitr festival, in Sadarghat, Dhaka in Bangladesh on July 27th. Millions of city dwellers travel to their villages to celebrate Eid al-Fitr, which marks the end of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan.

Smoke and fire from the explosion of an Israeli strike rise over Gaza City on Tuesday. Photograph: AP Photo/Hatem Moussa. Mark Weiss. Topics: News · World · Middle East · Ismail Haniyeh; More Topics. Wed, Jul 30, 2014, 01:00. First published: Wed, Jul 30, ...

A woman walks past a graffiti that reads “No to the debt payment” in Buenos Aires. Photograph: Marcos Brindicci/Reuters. Tom Hennigan. Topics: Business · Economy · World · Jorge Capitanich · Buenos Aires Government · The Us Court · Aurelius Capital ...

A Muslim woman and children at an ice-cream van at the Islamic Cultural Centre in Clonskeagh, Dublin, during the festival of Eid-al-Fitr. Photograph: Aidan Crawley. Dan Griffin. Topics: News · Social Affairs · Religion & Beliefs · Islamic Cultural Centre; More ...

A happy Rory McIlroy gives a thumbs up to the crowd after his two-stroke victory at The 143rd Open Championship at Royal Liverpool in Hoylake, England. Photo: Tom Pennington/Getty. Philip Reid. Topics: Sport · Golf · Jack Nicklaus · Phil Mickelson · Rory ...

Germany's Philipp Lahm: made 113 appearances during his outstanding international career which culminated with victory over Argentina in the World Cup final in Brazil. Photo: Fernando Bizerra Jr/EPA. Topics: Sport · Soccer · Joachim Low · Louis Van Gaal ...

Rory McIlroy chips onto the 15th green during the first round of the British Open Championship at the Royal Liverpool Golf Club in Hoylake. Photo: Toby Melville/Reuters. Philip Reid. Topics: Sport · Golf · Majors · Matteo Manassero · Rory Mcilroy · Shane ...

Rory McIlroy of Northern Ireland acknowledges the crowd after making a par putt on the 17th green at Royal Liverpool in Hoylake. Photograph: Toby Melville / Reuters. Topics: Sport · Golf · Majors · Cabrera Angel · Charley Hoffman · Choi Kj · Darren Clarke ...

Goldman Sachs reported a 5 per cent rise in quarterly profit, spurred by higher revenue from investment banking and a smaller decline in fixed-income trading than many on Wall Street had predicted. The bank's stock rose about 2 per cent to $169.86 before ...