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Baghdadi made the statement in a new audio recording which has been circulated on social media.

Scores of Turkey's financial and government websites hit by DDoS attacks.

On Christmas eve, the Indian artist also sculpted sand statues of Mother Mary and Jesus.

A technical problem or bad weather is believed to have led to the forced landing in the city of Irkutsk.

Celebrations included a special basketball game by the Los Angeles Lakers and a tribute to US troops by Obama.

Army push to liberate town just hours away from Baghdad has air backing from a global coalition led by US.

One of three Chinese vessels armed with cannons raising alarms in East China Sea.

Essam al-Buwaydhani will succeed Zahran Allouch, who was killed in an air strike.

Taliban rejects Moscow's claims that two parties are sharing information regarding Daesh.

From the refugee crisis in Europe to the terror attacks in Paris, a recap of the biggest news stories of 2015.

No casualties were reported from the blaze, spread across 2,200 hectares of land in two Victorian towns.

Unidentified man,believed to suffer from depression, threatened to jump from Istanbul's Bosphorus bridge.

The landslide follows a month after a similar incident killed over 100 in the same region.

Tremors felt across India and Pakistan after 6.3-magnitude earthquake hits north-eastern Afghanistan.

Ursula Gauthier said China's solidarity with France had 'ulterior motives' following the Paris attacks.

Zahran Alloush, chief of Saudi-backed Jaysh al Islam group, among killed in air strike on rebel headquarters.

Islamic State executes fighters for fleeing when attacked by Kurdish Peshmerga forces.

Check out the famous people who were born on Christmas day.

Moscow says Islamists forced to change routes to smuggle oil via border towns over Russian air strikes.

Khorasan, The Graveyard Of The Apostates also shows terror group's guerrilla warfare on the Afghan-Pakistan border.

Report says ¥100m could be paid out to South Korean women forced into sexual slavery during World War II.

BREAKING: Indian prime minister lands in Lahore while on his way back to New Delhi from Afghanistan.

IBTimes UK has gathered the best viral videos from 2015.

Taikang Life, Baosteel, New China Life and National Social Security Fund are among new shareholders.

Archbishop Justin Welby of Canterbury says terror group staging a false apocalypse.

Le Bing, the 21st Century group's CFO, too has been convicted of embezzlement.

Tragedy strikes on Christmas Eve at an industrial gas plant in the Anambra State.

More than a quarter of a million people are expected to turn out to support the traditional Boxing Day hunt

Some 53 US citizens and diplomats held captive in Tehran between 1979-1981 to receive $4.4m payout.