In the northeastern suburbs of Damascus, regime forces killed scores of rebels in an ambush early Sunday.

Police are carrying out a further search for additional victims amid concern there may be more bodies

Zimmerman, then 28, shot and killed the 17-year-old Martin on the evening of 26 February

Dozens of passengers trapped, electrocuted or crushed after express train partially derailed at high speed

First appearance since arrest for attack suspect whose brother died in shoot-out

This grand Grade II-listed property combines historic detail with modern touches. Tina Walsh settles in for the night

America, but with humour and panache

Thousands of supporters and opponents of Egypt's embattled Islamist president, Mohammed Morsi, held rival sit-ins in separate parts of Cairo yesterday on the eve of opposition-led mass protests aimed at forcing him from power.

Thousands of supporters and opponents of Egypt's embattled Islamist president, Mohammed Morsi, held rival sit-ins in separate parts of Cairo yesterday on the eve of opposition-led mass protests aimed at forcing him from power.

64-year-old had to use grunts and taps to lead emergency services to her house

The TeachFirst initiative is narrowing the attainment gap between rich and poor pupils

A pregnant Muslim woman attacked in a Paris street by skinheads, apparently because she was wearing a veil, has miscarried as a result of the assault, her lawyer said.

First new subway line added to the city since 1932

You might well think that Austrian director Ulrich Seidl takes a dim view of human nature. His Dog Days (2001) depicted the Vienna suburbs as hell on earth, while Import/Export (2007) set dim-witted Austrian thugs loose in a decayed Eastern Europe, while a Ukrainian nurse tried to survive in a horrifically inhospitable West. Yet you can detect a wry tenderness in his new trilogy Paradise, although you have to reach the final episode, Hope, for it to blossom into something like fondness for humanity. In the opening chapter Love, Seidl seems to give us human nature at its worst.