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"You misspelled #NetNeutrality, you genetically altered butternut squash," one Twitter use fired back.

"Was this Trump's performance review?" one Twitter user questioned.

Before the election, both parties campaigned on the need for tougher immigration controls, quick deportations of asylum-seekers whose requests are denied and a crackdown on radical Islam.

David John Carroll, along with several others, has accused the district government of denying basic human rights.

The group was arrested after a man from the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh alleged they offered him money to convert to Christianity.

Moscow had dismissed hacking allegations as "baseless" while Trump has continued to denounce the ongoing Russia probe as a "witch hunt".

Former president of the United States, Barack Obama surprised children at an after-school club in Washington DC dressed as Santa with a large sack of presents.

A strong earthquake measuring 6.5 on the Richter scale has rocked Indonesia's main island of Java leaving one person dead and sparking fears of a tsunami.

Javier Morales, 28, was arrested on charges of rape, sex abuse, resisting arrest and obstructing for a case in New York City.

Local media in Bali reported that 23-year-old German tourist Alina Kuroczik fell to her death after slipping off the edge of a cliff after urinating.

Translations of Imam Elkasaby's sermons in New Jersey showed him making anti-semitic comments. The president of the centre said Elkasaby would sit down with interfaith scholars.

US House Speaker Paul Ryan has urged Americans to produce more babies to prevent a collapse in the welfare system.

Australian commission publishes report that finds "catastrophic failures" by Catholic Church to address child sex abuse allegations and calls on Vatican to overhaul celibacy rule.

The revelation that the Simpsons predicted the Disney-20th Century Fox deal 19 years ago went viral online.

Sarah Idan, otherwise known as Miss Iraq, has been bombarded by death threats following an Instagram post alongside Adar Gandelsman, Miss Israel.

His post to Instagram seemed to suggest Charles Dickens's novel A Christmas Carol is a book about Christmas hymns.

Linda Wenzel, who was 15 years old when captured fighting for Isis, is facing the death penalty after being arrested in Mosul in July.

Israeli police troopers shot a man wearing what looked like a suicide bomb vest after he stabbed an officer near the Palestinian city of Ramallah in the West Bank.

A 94-year-old woman was handcuffed and thrown in jail after she refused to leave her care home in Lake County, Florida.

Aryton Little, 16, was filmed as he found out he got into Harvard University surrounded by his classmates at TM Landry College Prep in Breaux Bridge, Louisiana.

A 27-year-old New York woman is facing decades in prison for allegedly converting money stolen from banks into bitcoin and using the funds to aid the Islamic State.

IBTimes UK looks back at how the fight to rid Iraq and Syria of the jihadists played out across the year, in 100 powerful photos.

A couple from Dubuque, Iowa, appealed to their Facebook followers to help them reunite with their adopted son. Just 24 hours later they were speaking with him over the phone.

'Ridiculous' Miss France contest organisers Sylvie Tellier and Geneviève de Fontenay mocked for dedicating beauty pageant to denouncing violence against women.

Russian President Vladimir Putin's desire to be seen as a man of action goes back to his early twenties when he reportedly earned extra cash as a stuntman.

Zuma is finishing his second and final term as ANC leader, and whoever follows him will likely be elected South Africa's next president in 2019.

Cory Iverson, 32, was an engineer with a state fire engine strike team based in San Diego and is survived by his pregnant wife and a two-year-old daughter.

Toys are thrown out of the pram based on the notion that Jeremy Corbyn's rise to the summit of the Labour Party is some kind of coup.

A Royal Commission report on Institutional Responses to Child Sex Abuse offered 400 recommendations to the Australian government to curb victimisation of children.