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A 38-year-old woman has been accused of murdering and decapitating her friend before dumping her body in woods in Devon, UK.

The "megadrought" being witnessed by much of the US Southwest has forced rivers and lakes to run almost dry.

Tens of thousands of Russians have fled since Putin sent troops to Ukraine in February and then announced a nationwide military call-up in September.

A 34-year-old UK man has been sentenced to spend five years in jail for sexually abusing animals and sharing videos of the abuse online.

The United Nations General Assembly voted on Monday to reject Russia's call for the 193-member body to hold a secret ballot later this week on whether to condemn Moscow's move to annex four partially occupied regions in Ukraine.

In a tragic incident reported from the US, a 47-year-old man lost his life after his GPS device led him off a washed away bridge.

The staff at a hospital in Australia has come under fire after its nurses reportedly sent a man to the morgue while he was still alive.

Tesla founder Elon Musk may be an overachiever, but there are things that even he does not have control over.

The UN secretary-general, as the leading defender of the world body's values, bluntly denounced the annexations.

Victoriia Maslova abandoned her herbal cosmetics factory in the Ukrainian town of Bucha on the first day of Russia's invasion of the country, fleeing to Poland with her mother and three younger brothers when rockets began hitting a nearby airport.

France has repeatedly been in critics' sights over its lower level of military support to Ukraine compared with allies.

A UK man whose cold sore kiss led to the death of his 2-month-old son brutally attacked his former partner at the latter's house in the town of Bootle.

A woman who was taken from her family when she was only 4 years old has finally been reunited with her family in the UK.

Pink and white coffins adorned with gold and bearing the bodies of the 22 children killed in a gun and knife rampage in Thailand were loaded onto a truck late on Thursday and driven away in the darkness.

A former police officer shot dead at least 37 people, most of them children, when he stormed a nursery in Thailand on Thursday in one of the kingdom's deadliest mass killings.

A US man kidnapped his own baby and used him as a shield to protect himself during a confrontation with police officers.

Conservative party members have been accused of using homophobic slurs at an event organised to celebrate LGBTQ+ diversity in Birmingham on Tuesday.

A lawsuit filed in San Francisco on Tuesday accuses online gaming firm Roblox Corp of enabling a California girl's sexual and financial exploitation by adult men.

A British couple was brutally murdered by a South African gang and their bodies were thrown into a river to be eaten by crocodiles.

Necrophile David Fuller has been charged with 16 further sexual offences.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has often come under fire for his controversial tweets, and this time it is Ukraine's president whom he has managed to displease.

A 27-year-old Russian rapper who was against Vladimir Putin's war in Ukraine took his own life to avoid being drafted into the war.

Nuclear-armed North Korea fired a ballistic missile over Japan for the first time in five years on Tuesday, prompting a warning for residents to take cover and a temporary suspension of train operations in northern Japan.

The investigation began after a 2021 report by The Athletic about abusive behavior and sexual misconduct by former Portland Thorns manager Paul Riley.

Swedish geneticist Svante Paabo won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine on Monday for discoveries that underpin our understanding of how modern day people evolved from extinct ancestors at the dawn of human history.

The International Monetary Fund's (IMF) executive board will consider Ukraine's request for $1.3 billion in additional emergency funding on Friday as Russia's war against the country continues, two sources familiar with the matter said.

The fast-food chain McDonald's recently announced that they will soon be launching Happy Meals for adults.

Female staff working at Australian research stations in Antarctica have had to endure sexual harassment in the workplace.

The police in Colorado, USA, managed to catch a man accused of attempted kidnapping after his parents turned him in.