A California teacher has been accused of hiding a teenage boy for two years at her house in Sacramento.
A mother and son in Massachusetts, US, had a near-death experience after they ate highly toxic "death cap" mushrooms foraged from a friend's backyard.
A dengue patient in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh died after allegedly being administered sweet lemon juice instead of blood platelets.
Child sex abuse is epidemic in Britain, affecting millions of victims, and those who work with young people should be prosecuted if they fail to report it, a seven-year public inquiry concluded on Thursday.
Britain told China's Charge d'Affaires in London that the right to peaceful protest must be respected, after he was summoned to explain an incident in which a protester was seen being pulled into the grounds of a Chinese consulate and beaten.
Intense fighting between Russian and Ukrainian forces was taking place around two towns in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine, Bakhmut and Soledar, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Sunday.
Two women were killed and their bodies were cut into small pieces in a suspected case of human sacrifice.
North Korea fired a short-range ballistic missile into the sea off its east coast on Friday, South Korea's military said, the latest in a series of launches by the nuclear-armed country amid heightened tensions.
The first group of such volunteer recruits arrived in July and more than 5,700 have already taken the course.
Police probing a spate of baby deaths at a UK hospital found a note stating "I am evil I did this" at the home of a nurse accused of killing them, a court was told on Wednesday.
A 23-year-old UK man has been disqualified from driving for 12 months after he was caught doing doughnuts with his car while someone was on its roof.
A 47-year-old underworld criminal who was released by the Russian government so he could go and fight in Ukraine was shot dead after he tried to escape the war.
Cats are tiny little creatures and never shy away from trying out the most obscured spaces and corners.
Women across the world have come out in support of women in Iran as they continue their protests against the country's morality police
IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva said Ukraine's financing needs in 2023 will range between $3 billion and $4 billion a month.
Three Saudi tribesmen have been sentenced to death for refusing to leave their homes to make way for the government's ambitious project Neom mega city.
Newly unearthed mediaeval manuscripts have revealed that the 14th-century English writer Geoffrey Chaucer was wrongly accused of rape all these years.
A 38-year-old woman has been accused of murdering and decapitating her friend before dumping her body in woods in Devon, UK.
The "megadrought" being witnessed by much of the US Southwest has forced rivers and lakes to run almost dry.
Tens of thousands of Russians have fled since Putin sent troops to Ukraine in February and then announced a nationwide military call-up in September.
A 34-year-old UK man has been sentenced to spend five years in jail for sexually abusing animals and sharing videos of the abuse online.
The United Nations General Assembly voted on Monday to reject Russia's call for the 193-member body to hold a secret ballot later this week on whether to condemn Moscow's move to annex four partially occupied regions in Ukraine.
In a tragic incident reported from the US, a 47-year-old man lost his life after his GPS device led him off a washed away bridge.
The staff at a hospital in Australia has come under fire after its nurses reportedly sent a man to the morgue while he was still alive.
Tesla founder Elon Musk may be an overachiever, but there are things that even he does not have control over.
The UN secretary-general, as the leading defender of the world body's values, bluntly denounced the annexations.
Victoriia Maslova abandoned her herbal cosmetics factory in the Ukrainian town of Bucha on the first day of Russia's invasion of the country, fleeing to Poland with her mother and three younger brothers when rockets began hitting a nearby airport.
France has repeatedly been in critics' sights over its lower level of military support to Ukraine compared with allies.
A UK man whose cold sore kiss led to the death of his 2-month-old son brutally attacked his former partner at the latter's house in the town of Bootle.
A woman who was taken from her family when she was only 4 years old has finally been reunited with her family in the UK.