UNICEF also said that at least 160 children were killed and 343 wounded in attacks on schools across Syria last year.

Bert Koenders, who is visiting Ankara, said that he would raise Geerdink’s detention during talks with his Turkish counterpart.

The Uruguayan Foreign Ministry asked for the international recognition of the Republic of Nagorno Karabakh.

Over 320 instances of ceasefire violation by Azeri armed forces were posted on the night of Jan 6 at the line of contact.

There have been weekly protests by the Patriotic Europeans against the Islamisation of the West (Pegida) since October.

Tension between the nuclear-armed rivals has risen since Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi called off peace talks in August.

The story follows a member of a covert ops unit of the Japanese National Public Safety Commission that specializes in fighting tech-related crime.

Portman stars as a woman who is asking her ex-lover Edgerton’s help as her outlaw husband Noah Emmerich is targeted by a gang.

The Liquid Z410 is powered by a quad-core MediaTek MT6732 chipset and offers 4G connectivity without breaking the bank.

The machines are touted as inexpensive alternatives to Apple’s Mac Mini and competitors to Chromebox computers from rival manufacturers.

In 1582, the Gregorian calendar reform restored January 1 as New Year’s day. Although most Catholic countries adopted the Gregorian calendar almost immediately, it was only gradually adopted among Protestant countries. The British, for example, did not adopt the reformed calendar until 1752. Until then, the British Empire —and their American colonies— still celebrated the New Year in March.

“We are making technical preparations to alter the size, pace and composition of our measures in early 2015,” Draghi said.

“If it’s just to meet and talk without making any actual advances then there’s no point,” he said in an interview with France Inter radio.

Lebanese officials say the new restrictions are necessary because their tiny country simply can’t absorb more refugees.

It is the second time Pope Francis has announced the appointment of new cardinals from a wide variety of countries.

Former Greek PM George Papandreou officially formed his new party , further complicating the pre-election battleground.

New Year is the time at which a new calendar year begins and the calendar’s year count is incremented by one. In many cultures, the event is celebrated in some manner. The New Year of the Gregorian calendar, today in worldwide use, falls on January 1 (New Year’s Day), as was the case with both the old Roman calendar and the Julian calendar that succeeded it. The order of months was January to December in the Old Roman calendar during the reign of King Numa Pompilius in about 700 BC, according to Plutarch and Macrobius, and has been in continuous use since that time. In many countries, January 1 is a national holiday.

The Om/One is a round speaker that uses powerful magnets to float several inches above its base and spin in time with the music it is playing.

Users will now find older posts at the top of their feed, but the usual chronological updates resume after some scrolling.

Sirte has become a safe haven for extremist Islamist groups, blamed for the September 2013 attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi.

Flight QZ8501 crashed en route from Surabaya in Indonesia to Singapore Dec 27 with 162 people aboard.

The U.S. named 3 entities, including N. Korea’s military intelligence agency, and sanctioned 10 people with links to weapons sales and proliferation.

Karen Grigoryan and Vardan Mkrtchyan were killed, while the Azerbaijani side suffered losses and retreated to their positions.

The bodies were spotted along with debris floating in the Java Sea off the Indonesian part of Borneo, in one of the search zones for the plane.

People around the world celebrate the start of a new year in different ways. New Year festivals are among the oldest and most universally observed. They generally include rites and ceremonies which are expressive of mortification, purgation, invigoration and jubilation over the renewal of life. In some countries, parties are thrown on New Year’s Eve which last until the early hours of New Year’s Day. It is traditional to greet the New Year at midnight and then celebrate at least the first few minutes in the company of friends and family. Many people make New Year resolutions…a list of decisions about how they will live during the coming year, which may or may not be kept.

A.T.M. Azharul Islam as found guilty of five out of six charges including the murder of hundreds of minority Hindus, rape, abduction and torture.

The Art Slim line will comprise 55 and 65-inch LCD displays, measuring in at just 7.5mm and 8.2mm thick respectively.

The Galaxy Note 4 LTE-A includes advanced LTE capabilities and a next-generation Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 processor.

The former member of The Beatles reveals some info regarding his future activities in a new YouTube video.

The glitz-rockers will play the gold-selling album at the Kiss Kruise V show to commemorate the band’s “golden age.”