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Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Cannabis companies stocks jumped after the panel’s report was released Canada should permit the sale of recreational marijuana to people over age 18, and tax pot products based on potency, a government panel recommends. The more than 80 recommendations come from an expert panel …

Image copyright AP Image caption Rick Perry at Trump Tower Donald Trump is expected to pick ex-Texas Governor Rick Perry as his energy secretary, a department whose name he famously forgot in a TV debate. The nomination puts Mr Perry in charge of a department he proposed abolishing in a …

Image copyright Getty Images A woman suspended after calling First Lady Michelle Obama an “ape in heels” in a Facebook post is set to return to work in West Virginia, local media say. Pamela Ramsey Taylor, who runs a local non-profit group in Clay County, West Virginia resumes work on …

Image copyright Reuters Image caption “Rex Tillerson’s career is the embodiment of the American dream,” Mr Trump said President-elect Donald Trump has confirmed the chief executive of Exxon Mobil, Rex Tillerson, as his choice for US secretary of state. In a statement, Mr Trump praised Mr Tillerson, 64, as among …

Image copyright AFP Image caption Geert Wilders was put on trial after leading a chant for fewer Moroccans in the Netherlands Dutch voters choose a new government in March 2017 and if the polls are right, the right-wing Freedom Party (PVV) of populist leader Geert Wilders is surging ahead of …

Image copyright Carlo Ratti Asociati Image caption Aerial view of the village An abandoned military village in Germany could get a new lease of life as a hippy commune fit for the 21st Century. Patrick Henry Village, near the German city of Heidelberg, was not born to hippy ideals. In …

Media captionSerbia refugees face cruel winter The so-called Balkan Route may have closed officially in March. But people are still making their way along the peninsula towards western Europe – only now without the protection of the authorities which had laid on transport to keep them out of the hands …

Image copyright EPA Image caption Christine Lagarde has been IMF director since 2011 The head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Christine Lagarde, has gone on trial in France over compensation awarded to Bernard Tapie, a well-connected businessman, in 2008, when she was finance minister. She denies wrongdoing. The IMF …

11 December 2016 Last updated at 13:32 GMT The BBC’s Mark Lowen witnesses the toll that a string of deadly attacks – most recently on a football stadium – have taken on Turkish people.

The moment an explosion rocked the Besiktas football stadium in Istanbul was captured on the club’s TV broadcast. Two blasts, believed to be a car bomb and a suicide bomb, have killed at least 38 people and injured many others, reports say.