A Japanese couple has been arrested for holding their daughter captive for more than 16 years and letting her starve and freeze to death inside a...
The driver of a car has deliberately run over pedestrians outside a train station in the Australian city of Melbourne, injuring at least 19 people, local...
A North Korean soldier has crossed the heavily-guarded demilitarized zone to defect to the South, prompting the exchange of apparent warning shots on both sides of...
A disputed ballot in a key Virginia House of Delegates contest has been awarded to the Republican candidate, creating a tie with his Democratic opponent. The...
The head of the training center at the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) was killed over the weekend when the plane he was on went down...
August Ames, one of the most popular porn stars on the internet, has been found dead in California in an apparent suicide, officials say, just days...
A powerful earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.3 has struck northwest Iran near the border with Iraq, seismologists and residents say. Shaking was felt across...
German nurse Niels Högel, who previously confessed to killing dozens of patients out of boredom and for thrill, is believed to have killed more than 100...
Hugh Hefner, who founded men’s magazine “Playboy” in the 1950s and turned it into one of the world’s most recognizable brands, has died, the company announced...
John Heard, the actor who portrayed father Peter McCallister in the “Home Alone” movies, has been found dead at a hotel in California, local officials say....