A 64-year-old mistook nail glue for his prescribed eye drops, leaving doctors with no choice but to pry the eye open to get the glue out.
A teenager has been arrested following a series of attacks that left one man dead and two others injured, said Irish police.
Six firefighters in the United States have been charged with a misdemeanor offence following accusations they gang-raped a 17-year-old girl.
Sam Clarke was found dead at a construction site in Canary Wharf after going missing during a New Years Eve night out with friends, it has emerged.
Police in Germany have arrested a woman after they are reported to have discovered two dead babies inside a freezer.
Young adult drugs deaths has brought life expectancy down for the first time since the 1960s, according to data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
A woman who failed to pick up her dog's poo in Carmarthen, Wales, handed herself in to local authorities as footage of the incident was posted online, the council said Wednesday.
States that have legalised the use and sale of marijuana in the United States will create 400,000 new jobs by 2021 and generate $40 billion (£29.5 billion).
A lingerie-themed 21st birthday has ended with every guest being arrested for possession of marijuana after police attended the scene following reports of gun shots.
A man from Adelaide has died after being struck by lightning which was conducted through a camera tripod he was holding at the time.
Video shows woman argue with another woman in a car, who then shoots her in the arm before fleeing the scene.
An apparently drunk man was filmed violently throwing another man into a seat aboard a packed plane because his long hair was mocked.
The Metropolitan Police want to trace three people who appeared to engineer the brazen theft of £1,000 from a woman queuing up at a bank in Barking, East London.
Cocaine users have warned against the rise of super-strength product sold on the dark web for just £40 a gram.
Two people have died while attempting to climb South Africa's Table Mountain. The accident left hundreds stranded at the summit.
A new law directing firms to publish what they pay male and female staff comes into force this week in Germany, in a bid to tackle the country's large gender pay gap.
Another Egyptian pop singer Leila Amer has been arrested for 'inciting debauchery' in racy music video.
Shocking footage has emerged of a mass brawl between mourners at a funeral outside the Craigton Crematorium in Glasgow.
Michelle Marshall was paying tribute to her son on what would have been his 12th birthday when she plummeted into the wet, sandy ground above his grave at Ballyvester Cemetery.
Chris Parker has admitted stealing from Manchester Arena terror attack victims after being hailed as a hero for helping those caught up in the bombing.
Texas authorities horrified to discover boy was forced to live in squalor of a 'meth house'.
A man was ordered to pay his mother almost $1m for the sacrifices she made while raising him. She had made him sign a contract when he was 20 to make sure he'd give her money.
California has legalised the sale of recreational marijuana, and it's no surprise its retail outlets emulate California's most successful brand.
A California mother, Adora Perez, has been arrested for murder after her stillborn baby was found to have traces methamphetamine in its body.
Five men and a woman have been arrested on suspicion of terrorism offences and being members of the proscribed neo-Nazi group National Action.
Dalits held protests in multiple cities after an earlier anniversary rally ended in a death.
An Alaska Airlines plane had to be grounded after a rat was spotted jumping from the jet way at Oakland International Airport and into the aircraft.
The Royal Zoological Society of Scotland (RZSS) said the birth is an "outstanding achievement which will have interest across the world".
The intoxicated passenger allegedly called the two women "faggots, dykes and poofters" and kicked their seats for hours.
An Islamic undertaker, Ahmad Hraichie, made a video warning Muslims about the perils of celebrating New Year's Eve - as he wheels a dead body into a morgue.
