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A school in the north of the state is offering two rifles as prizes as part of an annual fundraiser.

In Young Lee gave an Anglo name instead of causing difficulties with spelling, but ended up with "Steve Chink" on his Taco Bell receipt instead.

A heroic skydiver plunged to his death after saving the life of a student whose equipment failed during a training exercise.

Student officer PC Mohammed Nadeem, who can barely swim himself, "just had to go in" when he saw a distressed man fall off a bridge into freezing water.

Despite the emergence of multi-channel retail, digital disruption and the array of choice on the high street, shoppers in the UK and around the world are still expected to buy clothes according to rigid and outdated size definitions.

Syrian, Afghan and Iraqi refugees injured by pensioner in knife attack outside church in Heilbronn, Denmark.

US Marines learned jungle survival techniques during a recent training exercise in Chonburi province, Thailand.

Survivors from the school and activists have called on Trump to take action on current gun laws in place.

The iconic guitar-maker Gibson that has been used by pop stars as diverse as Bob Marley and Guns N' Roses axeman could face bankruptcy.

Swastikas drawn on Polish embassy in Tel Aviv, Israel, after Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki says Jews were among perpetrators of the Holocaust.

UK residents marching to KFC for a feed of fried chicken are being turned away by locked doors and closure signs.

Linda Wenzel joined Isis aged 15 after being groomed online. Iraqi troops captured her hiding in the rubble of Mosul last summer as they liberated the city.

The vicim's mother had registered a complaint with the police and the suspect has been taken into custody.

A 45-year-old man who wanted money to get drunk with his friends faked his kidnapping with the help of his pals but got caught after his girlfriend informed the police.

Police are on the hunt for three thieves who stole a skeleton from a shopping centre in Adelaide, Australia.

Team USA skier Gus Kenworthy shared a kiss with his boyfriend Matthew Wilkas at the bottom of the hill before his event on Sunday, and it soon went viral.

Microsoft founder Bill Gates said that ultra-wealthy people like him should be made to pay "significantly" higher taxes.

An ATR 72-500, a twin-engine turboprop operated by the Aseman Airlines, came down in a mountainous region in southern Iran on 18 February killing 66 people.

The pair Pyry ("Snowfall") and Lumi ("Snow") in Finnish had been kept under quarantine.

Katie Tudor, a paramedic mentor for West Midlands Ambulance Service, posted the image of the hand-written note on Twitter which read "move your van from outside my house".

It is believed that the unnamed trekker, who was with a group of friends, slipped on ice and snow before falling from Clogwyn Coch.

The British Army is dealing with a manpower crisis despite a record 100,000 would-be recruits applying to join the Armed Forces.

Oxfam released its report into the Haiti scandal but redacted the names of aid workers involved.

Staff at budget hotel chain Travelodge accused the father of a 14-year-old girl of being a paedophile after he and his daughter booked a room to visit his cancer-stricken mum.

Top Gear presenter Matt LeBlanc says the show will not insult the people in the countries they visit, as it has in the past.

A 300-year-old "sex manual" that was banned until the 1960s due to its shocking content featuring magic and myth, is set to be sold in auction next month.

A major Republican donor vowed he would not write another campaign cheque unless candidates pledged to support a ban on assault rifles.

Gerard Batten, Ukip interim leader, defended his belief that Islam is a "death cult", reasserting that it is "factually and historically true."

A murder probe has been launched by officers from the Metropolitan Police after a man was fatally stabbed in Kensington, west London, in the early hours of Sunday (18 February).