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Influential imam has denied connection with corruption-related detentions. Is a power struggle going on in Turkey?

Penis beakers, schools overrun by goblins, fake legs mistaken by perverts - how will 2014 match it?

N-Dubz singer denies selling £860 of class A drug to undercover Sun reporter Mazher Mahmood.

From a testicle-eating fish to a beer swigging pig, IBTimes UK looks at the best animals stories from the year.

The man who has set himself on fire in Vatican City on Thursday has been taken to the hospital.

Three-year-old boy becomes youngest person in world to get new set of organs.

South Sudan rebels have taken over the town of Bor, capital of Jonglei state, killing at least 19 civilians

Diran, 24, lapses into coma and later dies after overworking at Y & R Indonesia.

Former Chicago Bulls man to coach team for Pyongyang competition in the repressive state.

Eight months after scientists found Pluto's Gate, the guards of hell have emerged.

Britain braced for more bad weather as heavy winds and snow to hit Scotland and Northern Ireland.

Bargain hunter used 470 supermarket coupons to buy £600 of food for poor families.

Police make grim discovery in cemetery in hunt for missing Oxfordshire teenager.

Conflict between Seleka and Anti-Balaka militias claims more lives than UN estimate.

Kerry says strip-search of diplomat should not hurt relationship with India.

Police fear the singer may have abused more children in Germany and the USA while touring with the Lost Prophets.

Advice on how to avoid headache of public transport over Christmas period.

Get ahead of the shopping frenzy by knowing were to shop on 26 December.

Tom Crist puts lotto win into trust fund for charities and his children in memory of deceased wife

Police hunting down 'extremely dangerous' murderer who escaped from custody in Genoa

Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger outlines Edward Snowden's most important revelations.

Arab social media is rife with reports of devil child born in Israel with one eye and no nose

Paedophile singer jailed along with two mothers after admitting offences including attempted rape of baby

'Nightmare before Christmas' poem left women's group appalled.

Eight councillors of a small town in Germany voted not to revoke the honorary citizenship awarded to Adolf Hitler in 1933.

Sweden's 'worst ever' pirate ordered to pay nearly half a million pounds in damages for sharing a single movie.

Paedophile singer said he did not know 'what fuss was about' after admitting attempting to rape baby.

Police watchdog to see if three forces failed to properly investigate Watkins prior to 2012 arrest.

Victory for women's rights in Saudi Arabia as kingdom set to pass law banning child brides