Messi out, Ozil in UEFA Team of the Year

Arsenal's Mesut Ozil is the only current Premier League player to feature in the UEFA.com team of the year, but Barcelona's Lionel Messi has not been named in the side.

Messi lost his FIFA Ballon d'Or award to Cristiano Ronaldo on Monday, and that was followed up by the announcement that he failed to make an XI made up from a poll of UEFA.com readers who were asked to select the best Europe-based players in a 4-4-2 formation.

Paris Saint-Germain striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic has a place in attack alongside Ronaldo, while Borussia

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Michael Jackson Insurance Lawsuit Settled

Michael's estate and Lloyd's of London have settled a lawsuit over a $17.5 million insurance policy. The two parties announced the settlement on Wednesday, January 15 in Los Angeles. The insurer previously claimed that they shouldn't have to pay the policy because they said Jackson or his camp did not reveal the singer's drug use. Jackson's estate then countersued for breach of contract.

"The estate and Lloyd's of London are glad this matter got resolved," Jackson estate's attorney Howard Weitzman said in a statement, as quoted by Los Angeles Times. Details of the settlement were not revealed.

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LAST TIME HE HAD A BATH WAS 60 YEARS AGO

This Iranian man you see above hasn't allegedly had a bath for 60 years. Daily Mail reports that 80 year old Iranian Amou Haji hasn't washed for 60 years because he believes being clean will make him sick, and his favourite food is rotten porcupine.

To relax he likes to sit down and have a smoke, from a pipe packed with animal faeces. Mr Haji says he chose this way of life after going through some emotional setbacks in his youth and since then - perhaps unsurprisingly - he has become a bit isolated.

His home is in Dejgah village in the southern province of Fars in Iran where, once, a group of young men offered to give him a shower - but luckily he managed to escape.

At night he either sleeps in a hole in the ground, which is quite like a grave, or in an open brick shack which concerned locals built for him. 

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