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WICHITA, Kan. -- A ceramic clown that went missing from a closed Wichita amusement park more than a decade ago has been found at the home of a sex offender...

See polar bear cubs at play on their first day out.

Police alerted after one of three now adult children managed to escape apartment in Bromölla where they were kept indoors A Swedish woman who allegedly kept her daughters captive indoors for several years has been arres...

The photo shows a young man, his hair short and his eyes looking at the ground as he walks out of a car. The only thing he's wearing above the waist is a necklace -- unless you count his tattoos and the handcuffs behind ...

One of the Mars One finalists, Sonia Van Meter, reveals what it's like to face leaving Earth forever

A large Los Angeles teaching hospital has told scores of patients they were possibly exposed to a drug-resistant bacterial “superbug” during endoscopy procedures that infected seven patients and may have...

Former NYC mayor says president doesn't love America

A new report shows Elliot Rodger conducted Internet searches for torture devices

Eurozone finance ministers are holding a crunch meeting later to consider Greece's request to extend its EU bailout programme.

China's latest anti-corruption campaign seems to be having a more profound effect than its predecessors but the stakes are high, says Jonathan Fenby.

Eddie Ray Routh, 27, faces an automatic life sentence without parole if convicted

The RAC calls on the Government to stop private car parks from issuing penalties of up to £100, as they may be unenforceable.

Film to debut on HBO on March 29

A force of 20,000-25,000 Iraqi and Kurdish forces will aim to seize the city back from thousands of Islamic State fighters.

A pair of cyclones, one with wind gusts over 200 km/hr, are wreaking havoc along Australia's Queensland coast. Meteorologist Tom Sater has the details.

The BBC's John Simpson reports from the village of Mansouriya, 100km north of Baghdad in Iraq, to see the effects of the Islamic State (IS) occupation.

Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny confirms the country will vote in a referendum on same sex marriage on Friday, 22 May.

The Islamic State has demonstrated its appetite for death and destruction many times over, including this past weekend's lethal rampage in Libya where the militant group released a video showing the purported beheading o...

Between Mars and Jupiter is a planet most people don't know about -- but with a NASA spacecraft heading towards it, that's about to change.

Bol Bol wants to finish the humanitarian work his father, Manute, started, but he also wants to get out of his high school coach's doghouse and into the varsity rotation.

A leading figure of the British left since the 60s, Tariq Ali despairs of Westminster and the 'extreme centre' that dominates politics today. His solution? It's not to trust Ed Miliband - it's to follow the principles la...

Moscow blames Ukraine for proliferation of new highly addictive and deadly narcotic among its youth.