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Lufthansa and Eurowings pilots in Germany are preventing planned deportations of asylum seekers and refugees.

Rosalie Avila's parents found her hanging in her bedroom. They say their daughter, who dreamed of becoming a lawyer, was driven to suicide by bullies at Mesa View Middle School.

Chinese social media users expressed their dismay over a zoo that featured inflatable penguins and farmyard animals.

The Japanese coast guard said it found the decomposed bodies of three men in Yamagata prefecture on 4 December, two days after a battered wooden fishing boat was recovered nearby.

Shaken Thomas Cook holidaymakers said they were "lucky to be alive" after plane engine explodes during take-off.

Footage taken in Saskatchewan, Canada, shows a firefighter sliding onto thin ice to save a dog, which had been stuck for half an hour.

A man who died after being electrocuted when he climbed onto the roof of a train at Manchester Piccadilly railway station was a 23-year-old from the city, police have confirmed.

It's worth mapping key trends that are challenging traditional methods of recruitment.

New York financier Rohina Bhandari named as American tourist killed in shark attack off coast of Costa Rica.

Chilling eyewitness account of Auschwitz survivor, Marcel Nadjari, who was forced to help Nazi death squads has finally been deciphered.

Social ratings will be awarded by people to each other and the resulting score will rank their social standing and impact access to various services, including loans and jobs.

James Packham was on bail for the acid attack when police in Kent nabbed him selling heroin and crack cocaine.

In an Instagram video, Arias was seen working out with weights as the child was strapped on her back with the help of a baby carrier.

People on Twitter are sharing their attempts at reproducing the invisible box challenge, where they have to jump over their own feet. One participant who went viral shares her story.

Police have released images of two young male suspects accused of strangling a teenager and forcing him to apologise for being gay.

A homeless man from Las Vegas has been hailed a "true hero" after rescuing two small children from a potentially deadly blaze.

The investigative journalist had accused Prime Minister Joseph Muscat and his aides of corruption shortly before her death.

Despite claims that radiation from nuclear tests sites in North Korea are affecting people researchers are unable to confirm the same due to lack of data.

The boy's parents dismissed the claim as "he doesn't speak at all", and has "the mental capacity of a one-year-old".

Lawyer Bobby Banson claims Libya's slave market is being used to harvest organs that are then sold to recipients in other countries.

Several prisoners from a single wing took part in recent violence which required specialist riot officers to attend.

Father-of-three Darnell Scott partially disemboweled his brother-in-law by stabbing him at least 25 times in front of horrified bus passengers in Chicago, US, prosecutors said.

Mayor of London argues having more water available to the public is good for health and could cut plastic bottle usage.

Drug dealers are increasingly using Bitcoin ATMs to launder their money and are taking advantage of the cryptocurrency's soaring value at the same time, police say.

Tim Wilson a Liberal MP, turned to the public gallery during a speech on the same-sex marriage debate and proposed his long term partner Ryan Bolger.

The incident came to light only after the video went viral on social media and appeared on news channels.

The execution was carried out by the hitmen from the Viagras cartel and is meant to be a message to the competing Jalisco New Generation Cartel.

The less than 10 seconds video shows the 16-year-old California boy laughing as he lifts the cat with both hands and flings it onto the road.

The families of the 44 crew members of the missing Argentine submarine protested against the government after the search effort was called off.