In a speech at a state dinner in the former British colony, William acknowledged slavery “should never have happened”. 

Results are in for one of the most bitterly contested elections in Indonesia's recent history.

The US official co-author of the contentious memo permitting water-boarding and other interrogation techniques, now seen as torture by many around the world, has conceded operatives might have "crossed the line".

German police said on Monday they had captured a man suspected of planning a bomb attack who had slipped through their grasp during a raid two days ago.

A local leader in Tanzania who had been accused of adultery has been attacked and beheaded by a gang of men, who then cooked some of his body parts, police say.