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Jenny Swift found hanged in cell just days after pulling out of death pact with three other trans inmates, inquest hears.

A woman in Indiana says she was "scared to death" when a hotel charged her $350 and threatened legal action after she wrote a negative review.

Oskar Gröning, 96, launches appeal against four-year sentence for playing part in mass murder of 300,000 people in a Nazi concentration camp.

Flight attendants working from one of Australia's most popular tourist destinations were taken to hospital with the same symptoms.

"This may qualify as the stupidest thing she's ever said," one Twitter user said.

A self-claimed breathing expert says atheists do not breathe properly and hence cannot experience God.

"Clapper has a half-century of experience in US intelligence. His words must be heeded," one Twitter user wrote.

Kanokporn Junsricha was fined after she admitted to illegally bringing 10kg of dried frogs into the country.

A report has revealed that North Korea has begun testing the loading of the anthrax onto intercontinental ballistic missiles.

We've put together a quiz that will test your knowledge on 2017's tumultuous events. Do you remember the past 12 months as well as you *think* you do?

The US Senate has voted in favour of some of the biggest changes to the tax system in more than 30 years.

The 27-year-old Haines City High School teacher in Haines City, Florida, had voluntarily turned herself into the Winter Haven Police Department on 19 September.

Citizens plumped for Ronald Reagan and Bozo The Clown in the write-in votes for the recently held senate election.

Goochland County Sheriff confirmed that the dogs were euthanized as he detailed the injuries that Bethany Lynn Stephens had suffered following the fatal attack.

Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman says the annual budget is chiefly aimed at improving the living standards of Saudi citizens.

Ruth Kretschmer, 90, and her husband, Bob Kretschmer, 92, died in their home in Medinah just five days after they celebrated their 71st wedding anniversary.

Khai Okojie's mother will file a formal complaint after her son was made to stay back in the classroom as other students performed carols at a nearby church.

Saudi forces intercepted a Houthi missile which was aimed at a royal palace in the residential area of the kingdom's capital.

Reports suggest that the man in charge of the Punggye-ri nuclear base has been executed days after Kim Jong-un allegedly killed his former 'second-in-command'.

The daughter of an elderly couple wrote that she was suddenly told her elderly parents would be put into separate care homes - she wanted them to stay together for Christmas.

Bill Gates, Microsoft co-founder and billionaire, shared a touching and inspirational list of tweets that inspired him in 2017.

The toddler, from the Mbya Guarani people, who live across Brazil and Argentina, was reported to be begging for money along with other children in the city of Posados.

People are celebrating the contributions Muslims have made to good causes with #AVeryMerryMuslimChristmas.

The term describes how the pressure to be 'manly' and 'aggressive' negatively shapes how men behave. Some argue it's the reason for rape and sexual assault.

In a recent UK interview, one defector claimed North Korea has a secret army of soldiers so heavily brainwashed that they could act as suicide bombers for Kim Jong-un.

A sea turtle has been rescued off the US coast after it was found trapped in among several bales of cocaine.

An Australian women has endured 20 hours of surgery in Sydney after she was scalped in a gruesome sheep shearing shed accident in regional New South Wales.

A Chinese student has entered a coma after they were forced to stand outside in the cold as part of a punishment.

Murat Bayaral's intervention, made on a religious TV channel on 16 December, has highlighted the increasing Islamisation of Turkey under President Recep Erdogan.