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At the risk of offending transgender people, Oxford University is urging its students to use gender-neutral pronouns, such as ‘ze.’
A student union’s leaflet being distributed around campus advises against the use of terms which imply that there are only two genders, according to the Times.

Leaders of the European Union meet in Brussels on Thursday for a summit fraught with disputes on how to handle the many crises they face, bar on possibly the biggest rift of all - how to handle Brexit.

The fall of Aleppo will not mean the end of the war in Syria and the fundamental aspect of this war has not changed, U.K. Special Representative for Syria, Gareth Bayley, has told a group of Turkish journalists in Istanbul. 

At the risk of offending transgender people, Oxford University is urging its students to use gender-neutral pronouns, such as 'ze.'

A student union's leaflet being distributed around campus advises against the use of terms which imply that there are only two genders, according to the Times.

Greek and British police said on Monday they had broken up a criminal network that supplied forged travel documents to hundreds of illegal migrants trying to reach Britain and northern European countries.

The gang supplied more than a thousand lost or stolen passports and travel documents that were procured from accomplices in Barcelona, Spain, in the past six months.

Considering that men will soon be able to enjoy oral sex while sipping on their morning cappuccino, they will have plenty a reason to get up – or get it up – in the morning, giving extra incentive to those who aren’t early risers by nature.

Draws will be enough for Turkish clubs Fenerbahçe and Osmanlıspor to advance from their respective groups when they play in the Europa League on Dec. 8.
Group A leader Fenerbahçe travels to Feyenoord, while Group L leader Osmanlıspor hosts FC Zurich at home.

The police officers killed in the Dec. 10 terror attack in central Istanbul were not faceless uniforms but sons, brothers, fathers, U.K. Ambassador to Turkey Richard Moore said in a soulful tweet. 

Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades and Turkish-Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci will hold talks on Tuesday ahead of an international conference in Geneva on January 12 as disagreement remains on the issue of security in an envisioned federal Cyprus.

Amid present-day meltdown in the Middle East, many are looking back to past generations to try to understand the roots of the problems. This search is particularly notable around the centenary of the First World War, when the current strained regional order took shape as a range of nation states emerged from the rubble of the Ottoman Empire.