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Delays, technical failures and shortages are common the world over when developing military technology, if two reports this week are anything to go by.

Japanese officials say seven middle-aged women stashed gold bars in their abdomen and were attempting to avoid paying import tax.

Julian Lee was rescued with the help of some bystanders, airport employees and a pair of scissors.

Cadbury UK has backtracked on its initial ruling of how to pronounce the "creme" in Creme Egg, and is also explaining why its products are halal.

The child was flown to hospital from an address in Tennant Creek, a town in the Northern Territory with a murder rate 50 times the national average.

World Peace and Unification Sanctuary Church will bless couples with legally-purchased assault rifles.

Wandsworth Police were accused of a witch hunt after their Facebook post appealing for help finding Kellie Beasley over fraud and theft offences received comments from the suspect.

A British man has been charged with the murder of his American wife, amid the sinking of the newlyweds' boat after leaving Cuba.

Authorities have launched a manhunt to catch the assailants and the motive behind the attack is still unclear.

"I saw this huge cow with a big hump so I stupidly started singing this song. As I was walking past the cow it suddenly lunged at me and head-butted me," the 25-year-old recalled.

The woman, now 21, has claimed in her lawsuit that Roy Andrews picked her up from school in May 2010 and later took her to a motel and raped her.

Harry Wright was jailed for seven years after pleading guilty to possession of a knife, possession of drugs and causing serious injury by dangerous driving.

The alleged incident took place in a government-aided school in the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu.

The Egyptian woman has decided to end her 40-day marriage and she is reported to have taken the drastic step after her "stingy" husband refused to buy her a meat-wrap.

A man named Edward claimed that in 2004, he travelled to the future and found Los Angeles was not the same.

Students simply can't have enough of the rave parties themed around the famed naturalist.

The hospital had taken several x-rays in which two eggs could be seen nestled in the boy's lower abdomen.

Marcelle Mancuso broke a vertebra after slipping off a bench while doing a very common abdominal exercise aka inverted sit-up in 2016.

National Bureau of Investigation agents had found sex toys, used condoms, sex pills and computers with pornographic materials in a raid in 2013.

The man, identified only as Sonelal, claimed that the reptile had bitten him and in anger he bit off its head.

The Philippines military lauded the efforts of the crew members for their quick-thinking in handling the dreaded Abu Sayyaf militants.

Investigators said the seventh grader suffered a self-inflicted gunshot injury inside the toilet.

A 41-year-old man was jailed for 12 years for killing his elderly mum and leaving her body to 'rot' in her bedroom for weeks as he went about his life.

More than 250 people have been killed in intense bombing from Syrian government forces in eastern Ghouta. At least 50 children were among the dead.

A teenage girl claims she was handcuffed as two NYPD detectives raped her in the back of a police van in Brooklyn in September.

Christopher Nimbley and brothers Jeffrey and Bradley Dillon raped a woman while she was drunk and unresponsive and kept the images on mobile phones.

A female catering company boss is accused of forcing a 15-year-old schoolgirl to participate in a series of sordid sex games over a five month period.

The adoptive parents of Erica Parsons have been charged with first-degree murder five years after she was reported missing and almost seven years since she was last seen.

A Ghanaian asylum seeker known as Eric X was jailed for 11 and a half years after raping a 23-year-old woman on a campsite, near Bonn, Germany in April last year.