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Amateur photographer Karim Bouchetata takes stunning pictures of snow falling on dunes of Sahara

What 2016 has demonstrated most, however, is that nothing is truly unthinkable anymore

Sevil Shhaideh, 52, has served under a previous leftist-led government as regional development minister

Google did not immediately respond to AFP's requests for comment. Twitter declined to comment

In October Menard put up anti-migrant posters and called for local referendum ahead of the arrival of asylum-seekers

Deaths have dropped 50 per cent since 2002

Questions are also being raised about how the suspect had been able to avoid arrest

Navarro has has concerns over environmental issues related to Chinese imports and theft of US intellectual property

Furious over the lack of cash, mobs attacked six bank branches in Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday

Beijing has been unsettled by Trump's subsequent call with Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen

Delta says removed Adam Saleh and another passenger for 'provocative behaviour'

It was not immediately clear if Helmand MP Mir Wali was in the compound when the attack began

A man is believed to have driven the van towards the building causing an explosion; no one hurt

Coastguard said around 300 people had been saved

Not only it failed to yield expected results, the missile had to be destroyed in air as it had deviated from its path

Modi has not commented on allegations but his law minister has denounced opposition politician Rahul Gandhi

Turkish telecommunications authority BTK may have decided to block the site because of the images of the shooting

The 80-year-old pontiff visits a pharmacy near Holy See on to pick up a pair of the orthopaedic shoes he wears

Netherlands has a large community of citizens with Turkish roots

Officials put forward greater powers to crack down on money laundering and stop the flow of terror funds

Air force says investigation team would be formed to look into crash in town of Butterworth

The accident was due to a brake failure, says police spokesperson

Global banks have been fined for creating cartels and rigging international interest rates between 2005 and 2010

Investigators searched some 10 places including offices of the NPS and the health ministry

Bana al-Abed's Twitter account gave a tragic description of the bombing of Aleppo in Syria

The crossing is open for pedestrians, but only within limited hours for vehicles

We look at 13 pictures from events around the world

German police are searching for a Tunisian man in connection with Berlin Christmas market

Shijiazhuang has seen 10 bouts of serious air pollution so far this winter

Court says fines to be spent on environment protection

'Love can change someone's beliefs'

The solstice marks the astronomical start of winter whereas in the Southern Hemisphere it marks the start of summer

A survey was conducted to determine how willing people are to intervene in an “extreme situation”

Volkswagen AG has agreed to a $1 billion settlement

The battle for control of India's storied Tata Group gets even dirtier as its ousted chairman launches legal action

Miguel Quiroga, was one of 71 people killed when the plane apparently ran out of fuel and crashed in Colombia

One in three people in New York City were born outside the US, city hall statistics show

Home Office quashes rumour about cutting number of students to two-thirds

Relative says Naveed Baloch sought asylum in Germany in February this year

Turkish special forces stormed the gallery and gunfire was heard for some time after

Trump made this case before German police released a Pakistani asylum-seeker for lack of evidence

The market had been packed with customers buying pyrotechnics for traditional end-of-year festivities

The Panama Papers leak in April -an unprecedented data dump -triggered much of the outrage early in 2016

Executions declined to 20 this year, the lowest number since 1991

Turkish Foreign Minister blames exiled cleric for the assassination of Russia's ambassador

The bill required a religion to have at least 50,000 followers to become official and qualify for state subsidies

Last year, there were a reported 327,394 crimes against women in India

Israel and the Palestinians, who are seeking a state of their own, both claim Jerusalem as their capital

Indonesian television footage showed a bomb squad officer wearing a blast-resistant suit

The findings were published in the British journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B