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Three members of Osama Bin Laden's family and a pilot died from the "effects of fire" when a jet plane crashed, preliminary post-mortem tests find.

A Zimbabwe conservation group says it wants the head of Cecil the lion to be mounted in a case in Hwange National Park, where he was killed last month.

Defenders say convict was a teenager when he killed a boy in 2004 and that he was tortured into confession.

An Indian rapper has gone viral with a music video calling on consumer products giant Unilever to clean up alleged toxic waste from a forested southern hill station. Sofia Ashraf’s...

The creators of hitchBOT the hitchhiking robot that was decapitated in Philadelphia share how the robot will live on in future projects.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- The man accused of killing a Memphis police officer had a few words for the department’s director when he turned himself in, ending a manhunt that dragged...

WASHINGTON -- Sen. Charles Schumer was ready to discuss everything from gun control to drones during a press conference in his Midtown office Monday -- except his position on the...

The last surviving Dambusters pilot, Les Munro, has died in his native New Zealand at the age of 96, the country's Bomber Command Association says.

The ban is on all lion, leopard, elephant, rhinoceros and buffalo "trophies"

Forget umbrellas: The newest symbol of protest in Hong Kong is the bra.

Minnesota Sen. Al Franken released a letter from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Monday which sees the surveillance agency objecting to the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA) on the grounds that it...

A study says homicide rates are down. But 2015 rates--especially for gun violence--are very different.

BERLIN -- A fire and a subsequent explosion at a former air-raid shelter in the northern German city of Hamburg left 38 people injured on Tuesday, authorities said. The city’s...

A big-game trophy collector from Idaho has ignited a firestorm of criticism from animal-rights activists for flaunting online images of herself posed with the carcasses of a giraffe and other...

Most of the Republican Party's presidential field squared off in a New Hampshire candidate forum Monday night for a preview of the 2016 primary season's first debate. The candidates aimed...

Kaduregel-Shefel, translated as peripheral or 'low' football, is a photographic project started by Gad Salner and Vadim Tarasov in an attempt to find the places where a passion for true football still exists. The project...

Former British Prime Minister Edward Heath has been accused of sexually assaulting a 12-year-old boy whom he had picked up while the youngster was hitchhiking, a published report revealed Tuesday.

A teenage boy is arrested after a 67-year-old man is stabbed in Cardiff.

After last month's shooting at a screening of Amy Schumer's comedy Trainwreck, the actor is teaming up with her cousin, the New York senator Chuck Schumer, for a new gun control initiative. John Houser killed two women a...

World's leading economies still paying trillions in subsidies despite pledges to phase them out, new figures show Subsidies for fossil fuels amount to $1,000 (£640) a year for every citizen living in the G20 group of th...

A Sinn Féin minister calls for greater scrutiny of the relationship between MI5 agents and dissident republicans in Northern Ireland

At least 11 people die after a building collapsed near India's western city of Mumbai, police say.