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"That's it. I'm coming back to İzmir to settle here and nothing you say or write will dissuade me," said a friend after I wrote that "white Turks" should think twice before settling in İzmir. "Besides, shame on you for trying to stop us as you flaunt your new-found Aegean hedonism with selfies in vineyards, beaches, sails, luncheons with girls and exhibitions on your Facebook account."

A police woman from Mexico was suspended for posting a selfie topless while on duty. Nidia Garcia, 34, took a photo of herself in her uniform with her breasts exposed in her patrol car. The image swept across social media and the mother of two was immediately relieved of her duties pending further investigations.

The Istanbul Village Heads Solidarity Association has filed a criminal complaint against Turkish cartoon magazine Leman's management and one of its caricaturists over an "insulting" cover, which depicted a village head - allegedly drawn akin to jailed outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Öcalan - taking a selfie with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an.

Two teenage girls who beat a woman in England to death in her house and then called police for a ride home were sentenced to life in prison on April 7, with a minimum term of 15 years.

There are some very scary photos floating around the internet. This particular one is up near the top as one of the creepiest. Watch the reflection of the woman in the window as the man is taking a selfie. Twitter brought the image to the mainstream media, after it was previously featured on 9gag. Some say it is photoshop, others another woman and the mystery goes on.

While the whole world was holding its breath and hoping for a bloodless outcome of the EgyptAir MS181 plane hijacking in Cyprus, one British passenger on board the plane seemed unfazed from all the hype and was taking a selfie with 59-year old eif Eldin Mustafa!

The remote village of Bogata in Romania has become an internet sensation after US rapper Snoop Dogg, who was on tour in Bogota, Colombia, posted a selfie on Instagram but checked in the Romanian hamlet instead by mistake.

Thousands of followers started to ironically congratulate the US artist on choosing to visit Bogata, Romania.

Social media and selfies are two things that have become interwoven into the everyday fabric in our western culture! Some selfie fanatics go the the extremes to stand out from the rest, even endangering their lives get to take that one selfie on the top of a skyscraper or hanging of a tall bridge.

London is the most popular hashtag on twitter with ‘London’ and ‘travels’ posted over 630,000 times in 2015, 200,000 times more that the next destinations, Paris, New York, Rome and Tokyo. The word ‘London’ in itself was tweeted over 80,000,000 times in 2015 along with the words ‘art’, ‘tarvels’ and ‘fashion’.

After ice bockets and the condom challenge, there’s a new craze taking Chinese social media by storm. It’s the challenge of true womanhood based on the premise that only a “real woman” can hold up a pen using her breasts.