The blaze spread through the eight-storey building in the central South Korean city of Jecheon after a car caught fire in the basement. Authorities say 29 were killed and 26 others are injured after the sports centre and public bath went up in flames. Dramatic images show people calling for help and flames shooting from the top of the building. One man jumped from a window (left and top right) to escape the inferno and plunged down onto an air mattress put in place by fire crews.
United Nations members will vote today on a motion rejecting US President Donald Trump's recognition of the city as Israel's capital.
Uber driver Tarek Houchiye has confessed to strangling 30-year-old Rebecca Dykes after picking her up following a night out in the Lebanese capital on Friday night.
The 'low-ranking' soldier was spotted by South Korean soldiers using surveillance equipment as he crossed the land border near Yeoncheon and made his way to a guard post.
The Swedish government's proposed consent law would shift the burden of proof from the rape victim to the alleged attacker, as it requires explicit consent before sexual contact.
Castro was supposed to resign in February but Cuba's National Assembly today voted to push back the election due to disruption caused by a hurricane in September.
The accident occurred off the town of Real, about 43 miles east of Manila, as the boat headed from the port towards the remote island of Polillo in rough weather, the Philippines coastguard service said.
WARNING: GRAPHIC IMAGES: The video has been shot by an animal rights group who went undercover to gain access to three rabbit farms and a slaughter house southwestern France, allegedly used to source fur for fashion brands. It shows hundreds of rabbits being kept in tiny cages with many suffering sores, injuries and birth defects. The rabbits are born in the tiny cages, and never see the light of day before they are slaughtered. The video sees a newborn rabbit, furless and blind, shaking on the floor of the metal cage (left). Footage from the slaughterhouse also raises questions about whether the preferred method of euthanasia gives the animals a humane death (top right)
These orangutans, tigers and bears got into the festive spirit when they wore Santa hats for a zoo Christmas party - but one orangutan in particular stole the show with his cheesy grin and exceptional milk-guzzling skills. The animals at Malabon Zoo in the Philippines were joined by 200 orphans and Roman Catholic nuns for the event on Thursday which starred smiling orangutan Pacquiao, named after Filipino boxer Manny Pacquiao. The zoo's founder Manny Tangco, who pushed Pacquiao around in a trolley as he guzzled milk from a bottle, said: 'Christmas is for animals too.'
Global disasters caused $306bn (£229bn) worth of damage this year. The figure was 63 per cent higher than last year's $188bn (£140bn) and well above the annual average of the previous 10 years.
The vote pits leaders of Catalonia's separatist movement against parties that want to remain in Spain, and opinion polls suggest both sides' leading candidates are neck-and-neck.
Six of K-pop's biggest stars carried the coffin of SHINee lead singer Kim Jong-Hyun, 27, who died in an apparent suicide in Seoul, South Korea, earlier this week.
The newborn elephant calf was part of a herd and was passing though the forests in Nellimala in Ooty in southern India when it fell into a canal and got stuck in mud.
The establishment, known as the Hospital de Bonecas, was founded in 1830 and is described in tourist guides for Portugal's capital as one of the oldest toy infirmaries still in operation.
The shocking scene was captured on CCTV cameras inside a school gym in the Russian capital of Moscow. Footage shows boy, aged between 10 and 11, breaking his spine in the gymnasium.
The clip, which has over a million views, shows the Pattaya zoo worker jabbing the chained beast in its face with a stick as tourists take turns to pose with or sit on top of it for pictures. 'This tiger gets poked all day, hundreds of times a day so it will roar for the picture with tourists,' wrote Edwin Wiek, the founder of Wildlife Friends Foundation Thailand, who filmed the video and posted it to Facebook on Monday. A spokeswoman for the zoo, The Million Years Stone Park and Pattaya Crocodile Farm, said the attendant had been transferred to another job over the incident. 'The owner, he loves animals and he will not allow staff to hurt his animals,' she added.
Newly opened Storstrøm Prison (left) - near the town of Gundslev in Denmark - has been created to feel like a university campus, with a minimalist Scandinavian look modelled on a traditional Danish village. Costing over £100million and taking five years to build, Storstrøm can hold 250 prisoners in its 40 square foot cells (right), which come with a fridge, 22-inch TV, large window and wardrobe. Inmates get a comfortable bed, desk with reading lamp, private bathroom (inset right) and a share in communal kitchens where they can make their own food (inset left).
Experts have painstakingly transformed black and white images from around the world for a new book, Retrographic: History in Colour.
Jeetmal Mehar offered £5,400 to Pathani Mangrio's parents to marry her in Pakistan. Officers raided the marriage broker's house just before the contract was signed.
The Air Berlin pilot named only as Michel R., 60, was given air traffic control permission before carrying out a lap of Dusseldorf Airport in Germany with 200 passengers on board.
Shocking images show the man writhing in agony while covered in blood on the floor in Ufa, Russia as shoppers and the woman's distraught mother denounce him for his brutal act.
The roommate of Eduard Assylov, 37, confessed to 'going berserk' and stabbing him to death and mutilating him in their home in Moscow, Russia, after becoming annoyed with his smoking habit.
Pope Francis used a Christmas greeting to dress down Vatican officials Thursday, denouncing how bureaucrats can become 'corrupted' by ambition and vanity.
This pride of lions clearly subscribe to 'the more the merrier', as six of them were seen climbing into the top of a small tree in Tanzania. The lions and lionesses were seen climbing up into the tree and somehow managed to all fit onto the branches as two looked on longingly from below. The incident took place on the Nyati Plains in Grumeti Reserve, Tanzania, earlier this month, and were captured by senior field guide Adas Shemboko during a tour/.
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