WORLD

An 8-year-old boy, Joe, who had been missing for more than a week, was found alive in a storm drain near his parents' house in the city of Oldenburg, Germany.

A US exploration team has managed to successfully unearth a ship that had sunk during World War II

At least 22 young people, some of them as young as 13, were found dead inside a popular at a night club in the city of East London, South Africa.

The drought in Italy has become so intense that a World War II-era shipwreck that had submerged in the Po River decades ago has now resurfaced.

Israeli archaeologists have discovered an ancient mosque in the Negev desert near the city of Rahat.

Former Miss Brazil Gleycy Correia died at the age of 27 following a routine tonsil surgery that left her in a coma for two months.

An extremely rare 15ft megamouth shark washed ashore in a village in the Philippines.

A stillborn baby's head was left inside its mother's womb after a botched surgery at a rural health centre (RHC) in Pakistan's Sindh province last week.

A 13-foot-long and 300 kg (661 lb) stingray caught by a fisherman in the Mekong River of Cambodia is the world's largest recorded freshwater fish,

A court in Japan in its latest order has upheld the ban imposed on same-sex marriage in the country stating that the ban does not violate the constitution.

A distressing video from the Indian state of Nagaland shows three men brutally torturing a Great Indian Hornbill.

A 23-year-old woman named Noura Aly Essam, was kidnapped by her own father after she inherited a fortune in her grandfather's will.

A US woman has been denied custody of her 16-year-old daughter and asked to pay child support to the man she claims raped her when she was a teenager.

A virtual public hearing of a corruption case involving Peruvian President Pedro Castillo was interrupted by a video of Brazilian stripper.

Russia has arrested a 33-year-old belly dancer named Yekaterina 'Katya' Zavalishina, in connection with an espionage case.

A 36-year-old woman fell to her death from the balcony of her apartment in Athens while her children were waiting for her in their car downstairs.

Russia has barred as many as 29 UK journalists, including journalists from the BBC, the Guardian, Times and the Independent, from entering the country.

The Taliban have put a fashion model, Ajmal Haqiqi, and his three colleagues in jail for allegedly insulting Islam and the Quran.

A former British soldier, who was discharged from service in March, has died fighting Russian forces in Ukraine, according to a statement from his family.

In a bizarre and shocking incident reported from the Indian state of Odisha, an elephant killed a 70-year-old woman.

A 45-year-old Chinese man has sought a divorce from his wife of 16 years.

Thailand has become the first country in Asia that has decriminalised cannabis and allowed its cultivation and possession.

In a heart-wrenching video from the Indian state of Bihar, an elderly couple could be seen begging for money.

Terrorist organisation Al-Qaeda in Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) has threatened suicide bombings all over India to avenge purported remarks made against Prophet.

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.

Alan Hall, who spent 19 years in jail for a murder that he did not commit has finally been set free.

A 33-year-old British base jumper, Dylan Morris Roberts, died after his parachute failed to open during a jump in the Italian Alps on Friday.

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.

A small but a significant trial of a drug in 18 rectal cancer patients gave a historical outcome.