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ISIS jihadis are testing out horrific new methods of execution, according to a horrifying video released Tuesday by the terror group that shows the drowning of five prisoners who are...

BELLVILLE, Texas -- A Texas grand jury has declined to indict a veterinarian who bragged on social media about killing a cat with an arrow. The Austin County district attorney’s...

NASA's Dawn spacecraft has captured a baffling structure rising three miles above the planet's cratered surface.

His tiny whiskers and swishy tail are so sweet it can be hard to resist giving him whatever he wants, but there are certain foods you should never feed your cat. Many human foods can put your little guy at risk for gastr...

Thanks, Dad! The palace shed a little light on the cost of running the official life of Prince William and Princess Kate Tuesday – and it’s Prince Charles who largely foots the bill. The staff, travel and official wa...

On a recent Friday night, a small band of street performers breaks into an impromptu hip hop show near Shibuya crossing, one of the world's busiest intersections.

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With her latest album, The Other Side of Desire, released this week, Rock's Backpages revisits a piece originally published in the NME in 1979 About the crassest tag anyone has tried to hang on Rickie Lee Jones is that s...

Officials: Government will no longer threaten families over ransom payments.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev gets a last chance to make a statement or apologise to victims, who are delivering impact statements.

Two UK students have been sentenced after stealing items from the museum at Auschwitz -- the former Nazi death camp in Poland.

Mother of victim addresses bomber: "I don't know what to say to you."

A 1983 Supreme Court decision has religious schools worried about a possible loss of tax-exempt status for opposing same-sex relationships.

The White House will release on Wednesday a presidential directive and an executive order that will allow the government to communicate and negotiate with terrorist groups holding Americans hostage, a source briefed on t...

A resident of a Colorado mountain town woke from a nap on his deck to find a black bear nibbling his ankle, but later rejected a request by wildlife officials...

After spending time with Ms Merkel, the Queen laid a wreath at a memorial for the victims of war and dictatorship.

Searchers comb woods in search for elusive New York inmates who escaped 2-plus weeks ago

Anne Lakey, who was called "visionary" by the Government, gets eight years in prison after being called a "monster" by a victim.

It was one of those terrible-then-amazing summer afternoons in America's north-east: thunderstorms descended on evening commuters, and then cleared just in time for a strikingly beautiful sunset

Police continue to search for the mother of a baby boy whose body was recovered from the River Taff in Cardiff.

Ferry companies work to clear a backlog of freight traffic after a strike closed the French port of Calais.

Prison worker Joyce "Tillie" Mitchell had sex at least 100 times in a sewing-shop storage closet with one of the convicted killers she helped spring, a former inmate told The...