Persia was the world’s first superpower. It existed about 600 years before Jesus Christ walked the earth and before the United States of America was even a thought.
Thailand's new parliament is set to elect Anutin Charnvirakul as prime minister, keeping the conservative in the top office after his party routed its election rivals with a nationalist campaign.
Hundreds of masked-up students queued to get vaccinated at the UK university campus at the heart of a deadly meningitis outbreak, as the number of cases rose to 20.