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A 29-year-old US woman has been charged with killing her mother's beloved pet dog and then burning his remains as part of a reported ritual sacrifice.

A US-based novelist who once wrote an online essay titled "How to Murder Your Husband," has been sentenced to life in prison for murdering her husband.

The body of a woman who had been missing from her house in Colorado since 2018 was found stuffed in a manhole at her own house.

A 36-year-old Florida man has been convicted of abusing his stepson almost a year after a waitress managed to save the boy from his father.

A North Carolina man has been sentenced to death for murdering his 15-year-old daughter after torturing and sexually assaulting her for 22 hours.

The head of an animal rescue shelter, Caroline Dawn Pennington, was arrested after decomposing carcasses of at least 30 dogs and cats were found at her house.

A convicted murderer who escaped from a prison bus went on to massacre a family of five in Texas.

A nine-year-old girl bravely survived a cougar attack by fighting the animal tooth and nail at a campground in Washington on Friday.

A study by scientists in the US has found that the best time to exercise varies for men and women due to a combination of factors.

The daughter of school teacher Irma Garcia who was killed in last week's mass shooting at a Texas school has written an emotional tribute to her parents.

A 11-yeard old girl named, Kyhara Tay, was killed after a stray bullet hit her while she was on her way home from school in the Bronx, New York on Monday.

The family of a 10-year-old girl, who choked herself to death while performing a Tik Tok challenge, is suing the platform for its "defective product."

A woman accused of killing her three children with the help of her 16-year-old son has admitted to committing the crime, according to Los Angeles police investigators.

A woman in El Salvador has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for aggravated homicide after she suffered an obstetric emergency and lost her unborn baby.

People who do not repay student loan or take on new ones between young adulthood and early middle age are at a higher risk of developing cardiovascular illnesses, according to a study published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.

Amazon Inc. will now be reimbursing its US staff if they have to travel for non-life-threatening medical treatments, including abortions. The company in a message to its employees said that it will be pay up to $4,000 (£3,201) for such travel expenses annually.

Japan's Princess Mako who gave up her royal status to marry her commoner boyfriend Kei Komuro, is now reportedly working at the Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art in New York as a volunteer.

The US State Department has asked non-emergency US government workers to leave the consulate in Shanghai as the city continues to see a surge in Covid-19 cases.

A US-based wind energy firm has been slapped with $8m fine after at least 150 eagles were killed at its wind farms in eight states over the last 10 years.

Former US President Donald Trump's social media app Truth Social which was launched in February, has been termed a "disaster," by experts.

Evan Neumann, a suspect in last year's US Capitol riots has been granted asylum in Belarus. He had sought asylum in the country alleging "political persecution" in the US.

Scientists have developed a new drug called Lynparza which can reduce the risk of women dying from breast cancer by 32%. The trials also showed tghat the drug reduced the chance of recurrence by 42%.

The trade sanctions imposed by western nations along with the European Union on Russia for its invasion of Ukraine have meant that one of the biggest oil and gas exporters is now left with additional stocks of the two resources with nowhere to send them to.

The scientists in France have detected a strain of the coronavirus that appears to have combined mutations from the Omicron and Delta variants of Covid-19. They believe that the mutation may have been circulating since early January in several regions of the country.

The first person in the world to receive a heart transplant from a genetically modified pig passed away two months after the surgery. US-based David Bennett had undergone the surgery on January 7 earlier this year.

A US woman failed to save her father's life despite alerting the police on time of her 74-year-old father's suicide attempt. The man, a resident of Mumbai's Matunga area, had consumed 30 sleeping pills in an attempt to end his life.

A study led by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) in the US, has found that turtles experience a temporary hearing loss due to underwater noise pollution caused by activities such as shipping.

Several people have come forward to help Ukrainians fleeing their war-torn country, one such person is 36-year-old Avi Rosner who has decided to open the doors of his hotel in Florida, US to Ukrainian refugees.

Police have been taking the help of sniffer dogs in solving a crime and catching suspects, but this time it was a goat that helped the police catch a man trying to flee the crime scene on February 13 in the Fieldale area of Georgia.

A US woman not only discovered a secret door in her 70-year-old house but also two boxes full of lover letters kept in the secret attic so no one sees it ever. Anna Prillaman was doing some cleaning work in her house when she made the beautiful discovery.