The dying wish of Moors Murderer Ian Brady to have his ashes scattered to Hector Berlioz's classical piece Symphonie Fantastique has been denied by a High Court judge.
Newlyweds Matthew and Carly Lunn posted a pic of them apparently performing a sex act in front of the scared monastery of St Paul in Rhodes, where they had just been married.
Winston Churchill's half-smoked cigar was recently auctioned for £9,000 - but what other unusual items have been up for sale?
West Midlands Police are pleading for help after a gunman fired a pistol into the Classic Fish Bar in Washwood Heath while in pursuit of another man - and nearly hit a child.
Award-winning photojournalist Kevin Frayer spent two weeks in Bangladesh documenting the lives of some of the more than half a million Rohingya Muslims who have fled Myanmar since late August.
The week's best news and sport photos, from California wildfires and Vietnam floods, to the battle for Raqqa, Kenya election protests and Rohingya Muslim refugee crisis.
Sarbast Fatah, 24, has been jailed for seven years for rape after his quick-thinking rape victim recorded her attack on a mobile phone.
Husband and dying wife left devastated after conmen posing as water board officials made off with irreplaceable valuables.
At least 6,000 Kurdish troops are believed to have been deployed to the oil-rich city in response to Baghdad's alleged threats.
Ex-security guard Adama Jammeh, who was sacked from Tesco after accusations of stealing, has spent the night protesting in the supermarket's roof.
Lewes Harby, from Newhaven, Sussex, has been jailed for 18 years after pleading guilty to nine sexual offences against children, including the rape of a 12-year-old.
London rapper Sadik Kamara, known as Trizzy Trapz, faces jail after squirting ammonia in the faces of two women during violent robberies.
Thailand is preparing to bid a grand final farewell for the late king with an elaborate five-day funeral ceremony that will begin on 25 October.
Its a cruel irony that an economy which gets 98% of its revenue from oil faces one of its worst fuel crises following years of conflict.
WWII leader smoked the cigar while he was in Paris in 1947 to receive France's highest military honour, the Medaille Militaire.
Authorities say spectators should wear clothing more in line with "the nature of Saudi society" - which has divided opinions.
Couple John and Jan Pascoe survived a California wildfire by staying in their neighbour's pool for six hours as their house burned.
The US State Department announced its decision to leave Unesco — which would come into effect on 31 December 2018 — because of the UN agency's "continuing anti-Israel bias".
Girl was preyed on by men after she lost her friends following a night out at a club in east London.
Two inmates took advantage of a lunch event held at the Basilica of San Petronio, Bologna, on 1 October to sneak out of the church and flee.
Tensions are soaring in the country following an independence referendum held by the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in September.
Three of the accused have been arrested after the couple registered a police complaint, with the men admitting to the crime.
Fifteen women have been stabbed by sharp objects since the first incident was reported on 25 September.
Michelle Suarez becomes the first transgender person to sit in the senate and is pushing for sweeping reforms of LGBT rights.
Lincolnshire Police say 150 canisters of potentially lethal mustard gas have been cleared from two locations near Woodhall Spa.
The storm that hit Vietnam caused its worst flooding in years, submerging more than 30,000 houses and damaging infrastructure, crops and livestock.
Robert Pruett, 38, was put to death by lethal injection at the state's death chamber in Huntsville on 12 October, after a last-minute appeal to the Supreme Court was rejected.
The tourist was posing at top of the Sussex cliff but landed with one foot off the edge and fell down.
The court found that Timol did not kill himself by jumping from a 10th-floor window, as authorities said at the time in 1971.
Investigators are currently probing the alleged trafficking of the girl, whom the doctor, Ernest Chiu, first met in December 2016.
