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Anissa Weier, one of two Wisconsin girls charged in the 2014 Slender Man stabbing of a classmate, has been sentenced to 25 years in a mental hospital.

She urged people to "remember the missing" during this festive season, saying, "we must never forget them."

London Zoo fire: Aardvark killed and four meerkats missing as more than 70 firefighters and 10 fire engines tackle huge blaze at Adventure Cafe.

India has the world's highest road accident death toll, with more than 110,000 people dying each year.

"Ella began angry lashing out at family members, saying she wants to die and tried to run away from home in the cold" the heartbroken mum wrote in a Facebook post.

Video footage showed primary school teacher Lian lifting his foot close to the face of girl students in an activity room.

The stunning jellyfish-like UFO, actually turned out to be a "contrail from the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket".

Everitt Aaron Jameson, who calls himself a "slave of Allah", was plotting a truck attack in San Francisco at the Pier 39 tourist attraction.

The bodies of Clara, a fitness instructor, along with eight-year-old Karina and Yesenia, 7, were found in the family's Kelowna home in British Columbia.

Mark Nesmith, from Coventry, was stabbed to death by Tyler Smith outside a BP garage in Butts Road, Spon End. Smith, 21, has been jailed for life with a minimum of 22 years.

Pc Adam Cox, 31, was working in Parliamentary and Diplomatic Protection when he used the photo of a Canadian woman, who committed suicide at the age of 21, for an online alter ego.

At an inquest into the death of Natalie Lewis Hoyle said a post-mortem examination gave the medical cause of death as compression of the neck consistent with hanging.

80-year-old Patrick Jiron faces drugs charges after deputies say he and his wife were driving with 60lbs of marijuana in their pickup.

Evan Brewer's body was found encased in a slab of concrete at a house where his mum and stepdad used to live in Wichita, Kansas, on 2 September.

North Korea had said after a recent missile test that fresh united Nations (UN) sanctions would only make the state accelerate its nuclear programme.

A Russian news agency reported initial investigations suggesting the man tripped and fell in a glass table while using a VR headset, leading to his death.

Trump's coastal golf course in Ireland had its application to build a seawall approved by the council. Originally the course had cited climate change as a reason it was necessary.

Ten members of a violent moped smash-and-grab gang have been jailed for a total of 110 years after a £1.2m series of raids on mobile phone shops.

Muskegon County Sheriff made a recording of the victim's statement so deputies could play it to Jeffrey Willis while he was being transported to prison.

Charlene Baxter, a 29-year-old woman who groomed a 13-year-old boy over Facebook before molesting him in a tent on a Dorset beach, has been jailed.

After ten pints of beer a darts fan, Freddie Andrews, decided to take the quick route down a London Underground escalator. He ended up becoming a Christmas internet sensation.

Tributes paid to 30-year-old woman who was murdered during frenzied stabbing at supermarket in Skipton.

Paedophile Alexander Georgievsky faces life in jail after luring Ruslan Korolev, 10, to his flat in Russia before strangling him and dismembering his body.

Passengers advised to check with airlines after runway closed following incident on inbound flight from Frankfurt.

A Russian couple who fled to fight for Islamic State extremists left their daughter an orphan after they both died in combat. She has now been reunited with her grandparents.

Yusuf Sonko was brutally murdered by being shot in the head in a busy Liverpool street on 2 June. His parents are now appealing for information in a heartbreaking letter.

Andrew Soper, a former abbot who molested children at a scandal-hit St Benedict's Catholic school, has been jailed for 18 years.

A witness recorded the scene in Pueblo, Colorado, when a robbery suspect's trousers fell down during an altercation with a staff member. Jeremy Aragon, 26, was later arrested.

Around 230 partygoers were rounded up for drinking and dancing by police in Iran, according to the official Iranian Students' News Agency (ISNA).