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Who said European elections are boring?

IBTimes UK looks at the most memorable quotes from The Smiths' former frontman on his 55th birthday.

27-year-old shot in the head in Okmayedani district after police fired teargas.

Merseyside Police stormed into a home in Dovecot, where up to ten gun shots were reportedly fired.

Lyn Rigby says she doesn't want son to be forgotten on one-year anniversary of his death.

Best photos of the day: 22 May 2014.

Souad Merah who praised gunman who killed four Jews in south-eastern France disappears.

Relatives of missing Brit sailors "have fingers crossed" as fresh search for Cheeki Rafiki yields debris.

Explosives thrown from two vehicles on a busy market street in provincial capital Urumqi.

Isidro Garcia allegedly abducted his victim at 14 and subjected her to sexual abuse for a decade.

The team will operate unmanned, unarmed drones flying out of an airstrip in Chad.

The matadors are recovering in hospital suffering serious injuries after being rammed by the bulls horns.

Anthony Peloe and John Arnold absconded from Thorn Cross prison.

Six youths freed on bail after being arrested in Tehran for performing version of Pharrell Williams' hit.

Police investigating after troll pretending to the ghost of murdered James Bulger causes outcry.

US Department of Justice has said it will reveal a much-contested 2011 drone strike memo.

Unite union threatens to 'close down' London Underground with Bank Holiday Tube strike in working conditions dispute.

Drunk student goes on subway rampage in Taipei, one of Asia's safest cities, killing two men and two women.

19-year-old who lost asylum claim may be flown out on Thursday and fears he will be tortured in Bahraini jail.

Government officials and police were involved in the extrajudicial killings of 298 people

Interpol's security general latest to cancel talk amid calls for president to resign over rape allegations

Hermitage Capital investment fund CEO and human rights activist William Browder satisfied by new US sanctions lawyer's death

The holes he has on both sides of his face are around 36mm wide.

Investin Quay House submits plans to Tower Hamlets council for 228-metre tower in Canary Wharf.

Seasoned actors know they have to do something extra to ensure their film gets noticed.

Tepco releasing groundwater within legal radiation safety limits into ocean.

Number of early marriages among Syrian refugees in Jordan on rise in desperate bid to beat economic hardship.

IBTimes UK investigate how vulnerable Syrian refugee families are preyed on in Turkey

A Syrian refugee tells of his experience during one and a half years in detention in Damascus and Homs