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A good night for the Democrats included one success in Virginia that was celebrated on social media.

"The president will tweet whatever he wants," a White House official has said when asked about a possible Twitter blackout.

Maryam Adam started a course at The Royal Drawing School this year but claims she left after being asked to do life drawing classes.

Kajal, a 23-year-old married woman at the time, was gang-raped after she accepted a car lift by an acquaintance as she was on her way to buy bread for her sick mother.

UK arms sales to Saudi Arabia have increased by almost 500% since start of Yemen War. Saudi-led air strikes have killed over 5,000 civilians, UN says.

For years, Anthony Hall dressed as Santa Claus for various events in Garden City in the state of Missouri.

A man from Utah has found a kidney donor for his wife after he spent two years appealing for help from passing drivers.

Germany's highest court has ordered that a "third gender" be recognised on official documents including birth certificates in a decision met with praise by intersex campaigners.

Looking back at the tumultuous year gone by, Twitter has erupted with memes comparing "Me on election day in 2016 vs Me on election day in 2017".

Chinese President Xi Jinping gave a lavish red-carpet treatment to the visiting leader and billed the trip as a "state-visit plus".

Reddit users shared a gif showing a man rolling down a golf bunker - and claim it shows the Japanese Prime Minister taking a fall while Donald Trump walks by unaware.

Exploring the internet's reaction to Priti Patel after learning her secret Israeli meetings.

Ferrero confirmed the "adjustment" to Nutella's recipe but said its taste and quality remained the same.

Twitter has been the hallmark of the Donald Trump presidency – can you tell the real Trump tweets from the fake ones?

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov revealed preparations are on for a Putin-Trump bilateral on the sidelines of the regional Apec summit in Vietnam.

"Whatever may have been the provocation, our staff were completely out of line and didn't follow laid down procedures," Aditya Ghosh, IndiGo president said in an apology.

Danica Roem, a Democrat, openly discussed her gender identity during her campaign and said she wanted to keep her focus on jobs, schools and mostly on northern Virginia's traffic.

The US president, who is in South Korea as part of his Asia tour, warned Pyongyang that its nuclear programmes are putting North Korea in "grave danger".

Houthis said they were "ready to offer sanctuary to any member of the Al Saud family or any Saudi national that wants to flee oppression and persecution".

One year on from Donald Trump's shock election win, we take a look back at a chaotic year for the US and the world.

An asylum seeker from El Salvador alleges that a female guard at a privately-owned detention centre in Texas, sexually assaulted her repeatedly.

O'naturel opened to the public last week after a smaller opening just for Paris's naturism society.

It's notIt's not all Twitter and firing people, The Donald has actually passed some laws during his opening 12 months.

A French court has ordered the return of a painting by impressionist master Camille Pissarro to the Jewish family looted from them during World War II.

"It is up to every one of us to make sure the next generation inherits an ocean that has more fish than plastic."

A North Korean prison camp survivor has launched a crowd-funding campaign to finance the assassination of dictator.

A former French political advisor recounts the first phone call between Francois Hollande and Trump - and it was a funny affair, at least for the French.

Financier Bill Browder is Vladimir Putin's biggest enemy after passing Magnitsky Act over killing of lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, who exposed mass tax fraud by Russian government

In a call with Iranian Foreign Minister, Johnson offered to visit Iran to discuss the case and said his remarks were "no justifiable basis for further action".