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In an incident that can only be termed a miracle, a dog managed to survive even after being stuck on top of an RV for at least nine days.

The "megadrought" being witnessed by much of the US Southwest has forced rivers and lakes to run almost dry.

A US man kidnapped his own baby and used him as a shield to protect himself during a confrontation with police officers.

The police in Colorado, USA, managed to catch a man accused of attempted kidnapping after his parents turned him in.

A 42-year-old man, who was caught on video viciously attacking an elderly woman, pleaded guilty to a hate crime.

A 57-year-old man, David Pirtle, has been accused of living with his dead roommate for four years.

A US woman, Victoria Moreno, has been accused of pushing her 3-year-old nephew into Lake Michigan because he was "acting up."

A man hurled racist and homophobic abuse at a fellow passenger onboard an American Airlines flight from Philadelphia to Dallas.

A 49-foot humpback whale, named Fran by researchers, died after being struck by a ship, according to scientists.

A death row inmate serving sentences for two separate murders was found dead at the Tecumseh state prison in Nebraska on Monday.

A vegan woman from Florida, who was convicted in the malnutrition death of her 18-month-old son, has been sentenced to life in prison.

A 61-year-old postal carrier died after being attacked by five dogs in Florida on Sunday.

The drought in the US has uncovered the ugly secrets of Lake Mead with another set of human remains resurfacing within a span of a few weeks.

William H "Marty" Martin, a famous rattlesnake researcher, died after a captive rattlesnake bit him at his house in West Virginia.

A 63-year-old woman died after a loose beach umbrella impaled her in the chest at a beach in South Carolina on Wednesday.

A 30-year-old woman, Mandeep Kaur, who was abused by her husband brutally for eight years, allegedly died by suicide at her house in New York.

An elderly woman was found inside cardboard boxes on the side of a highway after being dumped by her family in Puebla, Mexico.

A 12-year-old girl managed to escape from her kidnapper in a daring feat.

The United Nations' secretary general, António Guterres in a dire warning said that the world is just one misstep away from nuclear annihilation.

The body of the pilot, who is thought to have jumped or fallen off a plane mid-air during an emergency landing, was found behind a house.

A 71-year-old man was mauled to death by seven dogs near his house in Fresno, Texas.

The United States, like many other parts of the world, is in the grip of a heatwave. In fact, it is so hot there that a man was able to make delicious burgers

Two 10-year-old twin brothers saved their father from drowning using CPR they learned from watching their favourite movie, The Sandlot.

A young employee at a Subway restaurant in Atlanta died, while another received critical injuries.

Rachel Holland, a resident of Kent, England, left no stone unturned to look for her son and is still fighting to get justice for her dead son

The new footage that has emerged from the Texas shooting incident shows panic-stricken students trying to flee their school through broken windows.

The Texas shooter, Salvador Ramos, had told a German girl that he had shot his grandmother and will now "shoot up a elementary school."

The US Coast Guard officials were able to rescue a dog that had gone missing after the owner reportedly lost her overboard in Pamlico Sound, North Carolina last Saturday.

A woman named Carol Hover has been trying to unravel the mystery behind the decades old letters she has been receiving at her house in New York.

A new report by the US government's Drought Monitor has revealed that the water levels in California's two biggest reservoirs have dropped to "critically low levels."