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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu blasts EU's "double standards" and "hypocrisy" as he embarks on a two-day trip to Paris and Brussels.

Pyongyang had used the term, considered derogatory, at least twice in the past and it did not go down well with the US president.

The UK's Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson had a two-hour meeting with Mohammed Javad Zarif in which he appleaded for Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe to be released on humanitarian grounds.

Tyler Ketz is seen opening a zipper bag full of single dollar notes and tossing it over a balcony at the Mall of America, Minnesota.

Anna McCauley Dempster has agreed to fight an internet troll who said on Facebook that men cannot be beaten by women.

"Will any of them EVER grow up?" one person asked.

A hard working retired couple who have been paying into a life insurance for decades have been told that if they don't die before 17 January next year, they'll receive nothing.

South Korea launched the special brigade on 1 December, two days after North Korea conducted a long-range ICBM test.

"A tweet for every occasion," one Twitter user said.

"Hopefully better days to come," one Twitter user wrote.

Will donation from the late Golden Golden girls actress has helped to fund a new centre for homeless LGBT children in New York.

A "very grateful" former patient has sent NHS staff at Stamford hospital in Lincolnshire an anonymous Christmas card every year since 1960.

After earlier escaping from custody with the help of his supporters, former president of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili was rearrested on 8 December from Ukraine capital Kiev.

With migrants desperate to make their way to Western countries, many sell their organs to pay for the smuggling expenses.

Ex-Fox News anchor Juliet Huddy has claimed President Donald Trump tried to kiss her on the lips around the same time he married First Lady Melania Trump.

Feminist author Gloria Steinem joined in the protest along with sex trade survivors and various women's groups.

The Palestinian Health Ministry has issued a statement saying 25 people, including 6 children, were injured in strikes. Israel says rockets had been fired from the Gaza Strip.

Katheryn Rossetter recounted a series of incidents during the Broadway production of Death of a Salesman in which she claims she was routinely abused by Hoffman.

Representative Trent Franks has been accused of offering staff money to be a surrogate, with one saying she felt ostracised when she turned him down.

The head of the Catholic church suggested that part of the Lord's Prayer was "not a good translation" and suggested it be changed.

25 race horses have been killed after wildfire tore through stalls at a training facility in San Diego. The surviving horses were transported to the Del Mar race track.

London Assembly member Keith Prince was filmed getting into a heat argument with an unnamed woman which quickly became personal.

Max Super Speciality Hospital in New Delhi, India, has lost its license after mistakenly pronouncing a newborn baby boy as dead.

Averil Hart, a 19-year-old student with anorexia, starved to death in a matter of weeks after a series of NHS failures, a scathing report has found.

North Korea's long running film series about how terrible it is everywhere that's not North Korea.

Saudi blogger Raif Badawi may receive royal pardon 5 years after being jailed for 'insulting Islam', his wife Ensaf Haidar was told by MEPs.

Ames took her own life earlier this week following a Twitter war-of-words between her and a number of leading gay porn stars.

It snowed in Houston, Texas for the first time in 8 years. While the snow isn't that rare in the north of the state, the South just enjoyed a rare occasion to have a bit of fun.

Comic Relief video featuring Ed Sheeran was branded "poverty tourism" by the Norwegian NGO that runs the awards.