Millions of people worldwide join the Women's March in response to the inauguration of Donald Trump as President of the United States

North Korea prompts international condemnation by test firing a ballistic missile across the Sea of Japan

The Assassination of Kim Jong-nam, the half brother of the current North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, is the first in the process of Kim-Jong-un killing all rival family members

The UN warns that the world is facing the largest humanitarian crisis since World War II, with up to 20 million people at risk of starvation and famine in Yemen, Somalia, South Sudan and Nigeria

WannaCry ransomware attack: Computers around the world are hit by a large-scale ransomware cyberattack which goes on to affect at least 150 countries

An ISIL terrorist bombing attack at an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester, England, kills 22 people and injures more than 500 others

A fire at Grenfell Tower in London, England, kills 72 people and injures more than 70 others after spreading rapidly through cladding panels

60 people are killed and 867 more injured when Stephen Paddock opens fire on a crowd in Las Vegas, surpassing the 2016 Orlando nightclub shooting as the deadliest mass shooting in US history perpetrated by a lone gunman

A new species of orangutan is identified in Indonesia, becoming the third known species of orangutan as well as the first great ape to be described for almost a century

Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe is placed under house arrest, as the military take control of the country. He resigns six days later, after 37 years of rule

The International Court of Justice finds Ratko Mladić guilty of genocide committed in Srebrenica during the 1990s Bosnian War, the worst massacre in Europe since World War II. He is sentenced to life in prison

The United States officially recognises Jerusalem as Israel's capital