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People have taken to Twitter to share what they intend to give up during Lent

A former soldier who served alongside Prince Harry has called says gay saunas promote homophobia.

Best photos of the day: 5 March 2014

Enfield councillor Chris Joannides expelled for 12 months over binbag family joke

Pastor inserted fingers in victim's vagina on several occasions, even during menstrual periods, to test virginity status.

Texan man's selfie of featuring him and his dogs on the sofa at home has over 32,000 retweets.

Religious Convention holds 'Second Amendment Celebrations' where firearms are offered to competition winners

Russia plans to hit US and EU with retaliatory sanctions if West imposes measures to end Crimea standoff

Jury at Southwark Crown Court finds the 46-year-old not guilty of sexually assaulting a woman

Ad for medical marijuana started airing on Monday on major US networks.

Far-right teenager drew up potential list of targets to attack with guns and pipe bombs

Prime minister David Cameron 'profoundly shocked' by arrest of senior adviser.

Several states in the US, including New Jersey and California, are making moves to ban the practice of "gay conversion" therapy.

Oscar Pistorius breaks down in tears on hearing about injuries Reeva Steenkamp suffered when he blasted her at his home in Pretoria

Ammar Haydar accused of inappropriate behaviour and failure to apprise new employers of dismissal reasons, among other charges

Barry Steenkamp cannot handle stress of being in court for trial of Oscar Pistorius for killing daughter Reeva Steenkamp

Cruel methods used to kill and skin snakes at an Indonesian slaughterhouse.

Sex workers in Phoenix, Arizona, being given choice of diversion therapy or incarceration.

Teenage Twitter user @VersacePopTarts is now suspended from website following Vine upload

Court hears suspect accused of murdering officer wrote poem about how he 'chopped him all over'

Karl Lagerfeld transforms the Grand Palais into the Chanel Shopping Centre.

Mark Radford sold car badges of Rolls Royce, Porsche, Ferrari and BMW without a licence.

Nepalese government introduces new measure to clean up Mount Everest.

June Steenkamp has looked straight in to the eyes of Oscar Pistorius in court as he stands trial for killing Reeva Steenkamp

Peter Johnson, Jonathan Mathew, and Stylianos Contogoulas are charged with manipulating benchmark lending rates

Kent Police hunt suspect in CCTV images

FCO warns against travelling to Pattani, Yala, Narathiwat and Songkhla provinces on Thai-Malaysia border

Twitter hails lecturer and first witness in trial of Oscar Pistorius at Reeva Steenkamp murder trial

His mother Rosdeep Kular has been remanded at Cornton Vale jail in Scotland.