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EXCLUSIVE: Ben Castle, 26, woke after boozy night to find a huge snake hissing on his balcony.

Online auction website eBay has declined to sell a Mercedes previously owned by Nazi general Herman Goering, on the grounds that it is offensive.

'I would rather be in prison,' Eritrean migrant tells IBTimes UK from the Holot detention centre in the Negev desert.

Police say actor and rapper's grandson accidentally shot room-mate while tinkering with a handgun.

Investigators believe that four different flight plans, three to Australia, were plotted by someone on missing flight.

White House says US will no longer produce or acquire anti-personnel landmines or replace its stockpiles.

Man shot dead in Syria's Aleppo province for alleged extortion at checkpoints.

Shocking CCTV footage shows moment pregnant Mariana Popa was stabbed to death in Redbridge.

Gemelli hospital visit in Rome cancelled for 'sudden indisposition' but Vatican plays down health fears.

Mother-of-two found dead while wearing earphones with burns on ears and chest after faulty phone charger sent high-voltage electrical pulse through her body.

Sixty-year-old Derrel Weaver arrested on suspicion of firearm offences after police manhunt.

Peter Rodger has spoken of his shock after his son Elliot Rodger went on a killing spree.

Archduke Franz Ferdinand's death set chain of events in motion that led to outbreak of war.

Two people jump to their deaths each month at the world famous landmark.

The PM's adviser was charged with three counts of making indecent photographs of children and possession of 59 indecent images of children.

Escobar's hippos have multiplied and are taking over areas in Columbia since they were smuggled into the country in the early 1980s.

Mosaic of Princip to be unveiled by Serb authorities in Andricgrad, the memorial park built by film-maker Emir Kusturica.

Pistorius faces charges of murder, illegally firing a gun in public and possessing ammunition.

Ramadan is seen as a month of purification and self-introspection.

Diksha Pathak and Anjali Srivastava, students from Varanasi, India, have invented 'anti-rape' jeans

Human Rights Council probe will be similar to high-level investigations into North Korea and Syria.

Police confirm Neil Emery and Jason Bratton have been found after escaping from Epsom General Hospital.

Former Holy See envoy to Santo Domingo defrocked after sex abuse trial at Holy See.

Tickets to Arcade Fire, Tom Jones, Black Sabbath and McBusted still being sold for £2.50.

Borhami is well-known in Egypt for issuing controversial fatwas

Milwaukee man charged with hiding corpses after admitting to the murder of two women.

Parliament said it "didn't have the musical expertise it needed" to submit My Lovely Horse as official entry

Drugs death is second fatality as music festival gets underway on Worthy Farm.

Muslims in Britain are embarking a spiritual journey during Ramadan, while others fighting in Iraq look to have taken a wrong turn.