James Tennent

Police in Houston say that the 28-year-old Erika Jisela Miranda-Alvarez killed a 33-year-old mother and kidnapped her daughter after allegedly going through a miscarriage.

Despite birthdays of dictator's father and grandfather being celebrated as public holidays, Kim Jong-un's special day not even shown on calendars.

The US Coast Guard said it freed a sea turtle after a patrol found it entangled in amongst packages of cocaine later found to have a street vaue of over $53m.

First Secretary of State Damian Green has resigned his cabinet position after an investigation into allegations he was found to have kept pornography on a parliamentary computer.

A 5-year-old in Chicago was shot in a drive-by shooting in 2016 - less than two years later he accidentally shot himself with his father's gun.

At an annual conference on robot relationships, a cognitive science researcher claimed that humans were unlikely to 'maintain power' in human-robot relationships.

Air India apologised on social media after a user posted a picture appearing to show a cockroach on a plate in the airline's Dehli airport lounge.

Teller County Sheriff, Jason Mikesell put his car put for sale on Craigslist and was offered illegal marijuana in exchange for the sheriff's car.

27-year-old Sierra Tarbutton was sentenced to five years in jail after posting videos to Snapchat showing her firing a gun out of a moving car in Houston, Texas.

The daughter of an elderly couple wrote that she was suddenly told her elderly parents would be put into separate care homes - she wanted them to stay together for Christmas.

In a recent UK interview, one defector claimed North Korea has a secret army of soldiers so heavily brainwashed that they could act as suicide bombers for Kim Jong-un.

A new report from the Telegraph said that members of Justin Gatlin's team had offered undercover reporters performance enhancing drugs. Those involved deny the allegations.

A fire in the early hours of Monday morning in the New York borough of Brooklyn left three children and their mother dead while other family members fight for their lives.

Family planning organisation, Having Kids are offering US House Speaker Paul Ryan $25,000 to get a vasectomy as part of their push for people to have smaller families.

Former president of the United States, Barack Obama surprised children at an after-school club in Washington DC dressed as Santa with a large sack of presents.

33-year-old Alton Nolen was convicted of the gruesome murder of 54-year-old Colleen Hufford at a processing plant from which he had been suspended.

Local media in Bali reported that 23-year-old German tourist Alina Kuroczik fell to her death after slipping off the edge of a cliff after urinating.

Translations of Imam Elkasaby's sermons in New Jersey showed him making anti-semitic comments. The president of the centre said Elkasaby would sit down with interfaith scholars.

Bob Givens, who drew the first official Bugs Bunny design in the 1940 short film A Wild Hare, died in California on Thursday 14 December.

On 14 December 2012, 20 children and 6 adults were killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School. Five years later, school librarian Yvonne Cech and her daughter Ashley tell their story.

Newly released research from the National Institute of Drug Abuse shows US high schoolers prefer marijuana use and vaping devices over cigarette smoking.

Police in Missoula, Montana are investigating after the remains of three children were found in a box in the shed of a house on the city's South 12th Street.

Police in Evansville, Indiana say that Natalie Onay was found passed out behind the wheel of her car after reportedly injecting heroin while the 10-month-old was in the backseat.

Police are looking for a real life hamburglar, who stole a bag of cheeseburgers from a man in Hamden, Connecticut, using a gun, before fleeing the scene.

Adult entertainment website Brazzers released a free Christmas single and (SFW) music video which tells the story of a jealous Mrs. Claus.

Martyn Troup was said to have pushed dirty nappy into his partner's face before laughing at the distressed woman.

Along with a new (safe for work) advert, internet porn giant Pornhub is offering free access to its premium service for the eight days of Hanukkah.

24-year-old Valerie Curbelo was arrested at Sacramento airport after phone footage allegedly shows her shocking rant during a flight from Portland.

LGBT groups hailed a federal court decision denying a stay on an injuction for Trump's transgender military ban, meaning the US military will allow transgender recruits from 2018.