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Isaac moving towards New Orleans and expected to make landfall and flood northern Gulf Coast with waves up to 3 metres high.

Clacton police use thermal imaging camera after sightings and soundings of lion near caravan park

The victims were having a late-night party when they were killed.

Death toll of up to 600 would represent bloodiest massacre of 17-month uprising.

Out of six people on the boat, a man and a girl manage to swim ashore while two boys die, a girl is seriously ill and a man is missing.

Gulf Coast states bracing for monster storm seven years after the disaster caused by Hurricane Katrina.

Venezuelan president demands investigation into explosion at world's second largest refinery complex.

Farmer mistakes son in treetop for a monkey trying to steal crops and shoots him.

Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister and Home Minister R Ashok, who is on a two-day tour to Assam and Manipur, met students and professionals in Guwahati on Saturday and urged them to return to Bangalore after the five-day mass exodus of North-East migrants this month.

After passing through Florida Keys, Isaac is expected to move over southeast Gulf of Mexico with a wind speed of 100 miles per hour.

Herbal tea made from common plant could be used to treat breast cancer.

Two proteins that cause some forms of colon cancer have been identified by scientists.

Double-decker sleeper bus rams chemical tanker carrying methanol causing instant flare-up.

Anti-Assad activists say scores of bodies found dumped in a mosque near the capital Damascus.

Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were the first men to gaze down on Earth from the surface of another planet.

Neil Armstrong, the first man to set foot on the Moon, has died following complications from heart surgery.

The inspirational astronaut Neil Armstrong has died following complications after heart surgery.

Artificial molecule called stapled peptide shuts down cancer-promoting molecule Wnt.

David Menashri, President of the Academic Center of Law and Business in Israel and founding director of Iranian Studies at Tel Aviv University, offers his view on Iran.

Obese children show higher incidence of gallstones, says report.

Gas leak causes huge explosion at Amuay factory in northern Venezuela.

Innovative scanning technique can reveal which part of brain causes epileptic seizures.

Police officer photographed carrying a secret document that reveals arrest plan.

Relatives and survivors also request the court to declare Anders Behring Breivik as sane to take responsibility for his crime.

Nine injured and two dead – including gunman - at shoot-out at Empire State Building

Access to more than 300 internet web pages including some published by Telegraph, Times of India and Al-Jazeera blocked.

Shooter among the dead as police investigate claims that gunman was worker who had just been fired from job in New York landmark.

Man protesting about heavy-handed police approach to teenage scuffle handcuffed and electrocuted five times in Tel Aviv water park.

Consumption pattern and dietary behaviour found to be carried into adolescence raising health issues.