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The baby boy is recovering in the neonatal intensive care unit of a hospital in Rio de Janeiro.

Far from dismissing the call as a prank, police showed up at the Mississippi boy's house to tell him that his Christmas won't be stolen.

Sakorn Sachiwa was announced dead in May by police, saying he died of a digestive disease at a rented room in Phra Nakhon district.

Marijuana enthusiasts in Massachusetts have rolled a 100ft-long joint during an exhibition for weed vendors and supporters.

Hong Kong police discovered the body parts while they were visiting the Mong Kok district apartment complex over an unrelated issue.

A routine tour of a Detroit police station in the US state of Michigan led to the discovery of more than 11,000 untested "rape kits" - and 817 serial rapists.

Andrea Barber of Logos Christian Academy in Springfield allegedly began the relationship with the teenager in 2016 when he was just 15.

Former Navy pilot David Fravor saw a 40-foot long flying object hovering 80,000 feet over the sky before plunging to 20,00 feet.

Three men from Sheffield and one from Chesterfield were arrested on suspicion of terror offences during pre-planned operation.

This is for the first time when a law enforcement officer in the US has been convicted of a terror-related crime.

Investigators from the NTSB found that the train had been travelling along the bend at 80mph, despite it being a 30mph zone.

Siblings reported missing after being left along at north London home when mother was admitted to hospital.

According to the MPs the "eye-catching outfits" do not reflect the status of Islam, which is the official religion of Malaysia.

Officials in Saudi Arabia have begun exploring for uranium and thorium local reports have revealed.

Dellen Millard and Mark Smich were sentenced to life in prison and already serving jail time for the murder of Ontario native Tim Bosma, whose body was also incinerated.

This softening of climate change as a concept is part of a government-wide strategy to dismantle the pro-environmental efforts of federal agencies, say reports.

The animatronic figure of current US President Donald Trump shares the stage with those of his predecessors.

China reportedly plans to launch "hyperspectral" and "synthetic aperture radar" satellites, by 2021 to help spy on every object in the contested waters.

The latest accident happened after an Amtrak Cascades train 501 barrelling south on its inaugural run derailed onto Interstate 5 between Tacoma and Olympia.

The man told the rescuers that he was intoxicated and does not remember how he fell into the confined space below the ground.

Following his arrest, Tarek Hesso confessed that he had strangled Dykes to death before dumping her body on the side of the road in Beirut.

The former University of Hartford student had allegedly boasted about poisoning her black roommate Jazzy Rowe on Instagram.

The Royal Navy's £3.1bn aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth has a leak so serious 200 litres pour into the vessel every hour.

Diane Chilcott, 40, and Daniel Pusey, 21, plied girls aged from 13 to 15 with cigarettes and alcohol before driving them to hotels, where they were sexually exploited.

Wendy Thomas, 50, from Cardiff in South Wales, was stopped by border control officers in October 2016 at the Eurotunnel terminal with 3 illegal immigrants in their car.

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.

The former foreign secretary William Hague says that Russia is not Britain's enemy, as his successor is set to hold talks in Moscow.

X-rated glamour model Chloe Hammond was jailed for five years for biting part of a woman's ear off during a road rage attack.

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.