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A general view taken on October 17, 2019 shows the farmhouse in the village of Ruinerwold, in the northern Dutch province of Drenthe, where a father and five adult children were allegedly held against their will for nearly a decade by an Austrian man

New ECB head Christine Lagarde (right) wants Germany Chancellor Angela Merkel (left) to increase public spending to give the sluggish European economy a boost, a move supported by French President Emmanuel Macon (centre)

Talitha Girnus began posting photos of her love for an adopted hedgehog called Mr. Pokee a few years ago and now he is an internet sensation. The hedgehog has garnered up to 1.6 million followers on Instagram.

US Energy Secretary Rick Perry says the pipeline "would increase Russia's leverage over Europe's foreign policy" while President Trump says it makes Germany "a hostage to Russia"

New ECB head Christine Lagarde (right) wants Germany Chancellor Angela Merkel (left) to increase public spending to give the sluggish European economy a boost, a move supported by French President Emmanuel Macon (centre)

Costs related to cutting its workforce helped push Deutsche Bank into the red

The Australian government applied a 15 percent levy for every dollar earned for two categories of working holiday visas linked to seasonal labour

Costs related to cutting its workforce helped push Deutsche Bank into the red

13,000 people have died since the conflict in eastern Ukraine broke out in 2014

Puigdemont, president of the Catalan region of Spain between January 2016 and October 2017, helped organise an independence referendum before fleeing to Belgium

Rescue boats run by aid agencies have saved hundreds of migrants attempting the Mediterranean crossing to Europe in what are often overcrowded, fragile craft

The federal prosecutor's office in Karlsruhe said the two suspects were arrested in February

Indian troops kept a muscular presence but clashes broke out in various parts of Kashmir as an unofficial European Parliament delegation visited

Grossi becomes the first IAEA head from Latin America and is believed to have had the backing of the US

Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, the head of the CDU, has come under fire for her party's loss in the central German state of Thuringia on Sunday.

Nguyen Van Hung paid smugglers $17,000 for a new passport and a flight to Russia before heading on to France and then Britain

Hoecke has been heavily criticised over his radical speeches

Christine Lagarde is to take over from Mario Draghi as head of the European Central Bank on November 1

Ivan Milat, who recently passed away at the age of 74, is considered the most infamous serial killer in Australian history.

Bjoern Hoecke, a hardline nationalist who is local head of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, is tipped to do well in Thuringia regional elections

Bui Thi Nhung was among the mostly young migrants who leave rural Vietnam, hoping to find better lives overseas