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Isis fighters fleeing Iraq and Syria are thought to have headed towards Turkey, the route many British travelled to join the group.

Scott Sears became the youngest person to reach the South Pole solo on Christmas Day, but he is still being described as Andy Murray's brother-in-law.

A divorced father won the right to read his children's WhatsApp messages in a court ruling that sets a precedent favouring parental responsibility over privacy laws in Spain.

A new survey has said one in four Brits admit to stealing items while using self-service tills, resulting in an estimated £3.2bn of theft a year.

Vegan chef Anthony Milan Ross has been accused of shooting dead his wife and two children on Christmas Day in Phoenix, Arizona.

Obama took 17% of the vote, ahead of Donald Trump on 14%, with Pope Francis coming in third on 3%.

The Alexandra pub in Wimbledon launched a search for Mariusz, who left a pay packet "stuffed with cash" in the bar on 21 December.

Tramadol, a powerful opiate painkiller, is illegal in Egypt but available on prescription in the UK. Plummer claimed the pills were for her Egyptian boyfriend who suffered back pain, and she was not aware they were illegal in Egypt.

When trading closed on 26 December 2017, the world's richest 500 billionaires owned around $5.3tn of wealth, compared to $4.4tn at the same time in 2016.

Britain's first gold coin, which was scrapped after a minting blunder almost 800 years ago, is tipped to sell for up to $500,000 at auction.

Adam Nicholls and Alexandra Knight both spent Christmas working in children's intensive care wards but spent Boxing Day searching for their missing cat after a callous burglary.

Former President Alberto Fujimori has finally apologised to Peruvians for the wrongs committed under his government in the 1990s.

It's the end of the Christmas period and millions of employees across Britain are already back in work.

A French children's magazine has been withdrawn from newsstands after it listed Israel alongside North Korea as places that weren't considered "real countries".

Technical issues saw thousands have their ticket fees waived on one of the busiest days of travel.

Officials in Melbourne have been left with a hefty clean-up bill after a Christmas party got out of control.

Convicted acid attacker Arthur Collins likely to spend even more time behind bars after admitting to smuggling a phone into prison to call his ex-girlfriend Ferne McCann.

A few desperately sick children have been evacuated to hospitals in Damascus from the besieged rebel-held enclave of Eastern Ghouta, but many more remain.

Overnight Snowstorms across the UK has led to traffic accidents and left thousands of homes without power.

Paedophiles are using YouTube as a shop window to advertise abused children and underage pornography to other predators, it has been claimed.

Obama said it was "hugely liberating" to be able to set his own agenda in the morning and to have the time to talk with his wife, Michelle, now that he is no longer president.

Ilya Averyanov, the factory's ex-owner has barricaded himself inside the building and warned that he would "fight until the very end".

Jo Turner and her husband Craig look forward to spending the holiday season with her three children in Waltham.

Sergeant Aaron Thompson of the Utah Sheriff's Office jumped into the freezing water to save the boy who had fallen through the ice.

Paul and Jasmine Rozier had filed a missing report when their boy had disappeared on Sunday evening (24 December).

2017 has been a tough year by anyone's standards - but these news stories prove that there is always a reason to cling on to hope

The couple was forced to deliver their baby girl, Poppy, who was born healthy, weighing six pounds and eight ounces, and measuring 20.5 inches.

"I have never been that scared in my life. We jumped in the car, drove really fast. It was following us," he said while recalling the event.

Arthur Rathburn, the man behind the operation, pleaded not guilty to defrauding customers by sending them diseased body parts.