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Evidence of post-traumatic stress disorder can be traced back to 1300BC – much earlier than previously thought – say researchers. The team at Anglia Ruskin University analysed translations from ancient Iraq or Mesopotamia. Accounts of soldiers being visited by “ghosts they faced in battle” fitted with a modern diagnosis of …

At least 15 people have been killed and 46 injured in a series of rocket attacks by pro-Russian rebels in Ukraine’s government-held port of Mariupol, police there say. The Grad rockets hit a market in a residential area in the east of the city, the police chief said. A spokesman …

Salvage teams have begun an operation to raise the fuselage of AirAsia flight QZ8501, which crashed into the Java Sea last month killing all 162 on board. However, the initial attempt was unsuccessful as ropes around the fuselage snapped. Another four bodies have been recovered, bringing the total to 69, …

Don’t act so surprised, Your Highness. You weren’t on any mercy mission this time. Several transmissions were beamed to this ship by Rebel spies. I want to know what happened to the plans they sent you. In my experience, there is no such thing as luck. Partially, but it also …

The US is to send 1,500 more non-combat troops to Iraq to boost Iraqi forces fighting Islamic State (IS) militants, the White House says. The Pentagon said the troops would train and assist Iraqi forces. President Barack Obama authorised the deployment following a request from Iraq’s government, the Pentagon added. …

Thousands of people have taken part in a memorial walk on the anniversary of Typhoon Haiyan which ravaged central parts of the Philippines a year ago. Crowds marched through the city of Tacloban as sirens sounded and bells rang at the exact time the storm hit. There were also anti-government …

Former president’s party and Houthi rebels pull out from cabinet after UN slapped sanctions on three leaders. Yemen’s new government has been sworn in amid opposition from the ruling General People’s Congress (GPC) and the Houthi rebels who said that they would not back a confidence vote. President Abd-Rabu Mansour …

Country horrified as parents say they will only accept students are dead if DNA tests confirm the confessions. Furious protesters burned several vehicles and threw firebombs at a southern Mexican state’s headquarters on Saturday after authorities indicated that gang hitmen slaughtered 43 missing students. More than 300 students, many wearing …

Intense artillery fire erupts near Donetsk in what is seen as worst fighting since tenuous September ceasefire. Intense artillery fire has broken out in the pro-Russia separatist bastion of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine, the worst since a barely-observed ceasefire was signed in September. Shelling by heavy artillery continued throughout the …