An Australian women has endured 20 hours of surgery in Sydney after she was scalped in a gruesome sheep shearing shed accident in regional New South Wales.
A Chinese student has entered a coma after they were forced to stand outside in the cold as part of a punishment.
Murat Bayaral's intervention, made on a religious TV channel on 16 December, has highlighted the increasing Islamisation of Turkey under President Recep Erdogan.
Just 13% of Israeli Jews are willing to have Arabs as neighbours, a new study by The Center for a Share Society has found.
Explaining that there are many reasons responsible for cheating, Australian sexologist Nikki Goldstein concludes: "One reason is often when there is trouble at home."
The training was given to make sure that some units of the US Army are ready in case troops need to be deployed on the ground and invade North Korea.
Pakistan's National Security Adviser Nasser Khan Janjua says a nuclear conflict is only a "mistake away".
The Philippines president says he supports gay marriages and he is even ready to rewrite laws to legalise same-sex unions.
Neurofibromatosis sufferer Reggie Bibbs said driver rode away after seeing his disfigurement after requesting ride to hospital.
"What is it with Trump and his two-handed chipmunk-like style of drinking water?" one Twitter user wrote.
"He's never not an a**hole. Never," Andy Lassner, an executive producer for The Ellen Show, tweeted.
Tokyo's cabinet approves installation of two land-based missile interceptors, which would cover the entire Japanese territory.
Investigators from the NTSB found that the train had been travelling along the bend at 80mph, despite it being a 30mph zone.
According to the MPs the "eye-catching outfits" do not reflect the status of Islam, which is the official religion of Malaysia.
Officials in Saudi Arabia have begun exploring for uranium and thorium local reports have revealed.
This softening of climate change as a concept is part of a government-wide strategy to dismantle the pro-environmental efforts of federal agencies, say reports.
US President Donald Trump has pledged the threats from the reclusive Kim Jong-un regime will be "taken care of".
China reportedly plans to launch "hyperspectral" and "synthetic aperture radar" satellites, by 2021 to help spy on every object in the contested waters.
The latest accident happened after an Amtrak Cascades train 501 barrelling south on its inaugural run derailed onto Interstate 5 between Tacoma and Olympia.
The man told the rescuers that he was intoxicated and does not remember how he fell into the confined space below the ground.
Washington stood isolated at the UN Security Council after it vetoed a resolution, which was supported by 14 states of the 15-member body.
The former foreign secretary William Hague says that Russia is not Britain's enemy, as his successor is set to hold talks in Moscow.
A fire in the early hours of Monday morning in the New York borough of Brooklyn left three children and their mother dead while other family members fight for their lives.
A water-based traditional "healing" ceremony ended in tragedy on Friday (15 December) after a teenager and a 27-year-old man both drowned while taking part.
The immigrants were shackled at the hands and feet throughout the ordeal. Some claimed they were not properly fed, hydrated, or allowed to use the bathroom.
Storm Kai-tak pounds Philippines, leaves over 30 dead and dozens missing in island province of Biliran after triggering severe flooding and landslides.
Daniel Kibblesmith, from The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, took the US president down with a hilarious series of tweets, saying Trump wanted one adult ticket to see Boss Baby.
Donald Trump is set to mark a key reversal in policy from the previous Obama administration by denouncing climate change as a possible threat to the US.
Weird news stories in 2017 included Donald Trump tweeting "covfefe," Theresa May's conference disaster, the bizarre statue of Cristiano Ronaldo and a black bear playing piano.
Mikah, a nine-year-old boy from Ohio, showed how it was better to give than receive after he returned his Xbox to help rough sleepers.
