A girl shown in a video throwing puppies into a fast-flowing river has been traced, police in Bosnia said today. The teenager, wearing a hooded top, caused worldwide outrage when she was shown online apparently killing six newborn puppies by throwing...

Flawed intelligence-gathering and planning led to Israel’s botched and deadly raid on a Gaza-bound protest flotilla, with security forces underestimating the potential for violence, said the official report released Monday. The report, however,...

International health officials and environmental experts are expanding testing for lead poisoning in a remote northwestern region of Nigeria where contamination from unmonitored gold-mining practices has killed at least 163 people, most of them...

An imam in Mali is living in fear after backing a new family law which no longer obliges wives to obey their husbands, angering Muslim groups. He has received threatening phone calls and local Muslim leaders have tried to dismiss him.

Perhaps the brains behind it were anticipating an explosion in pedal-powered traffic. But Britain’s widest cycle lane has only succeeded in baffling motorists - because cars no longer fit in the tiny space left for them. The 6.5ft-wide cycleway...

A boy of nine killed himself after coming home from school. It is claimed he’d been told off earlier in the day. He was found by a member of his family who then called the police. The child is believed to have hanged himself.

Emergency blood supplies are being flown to Mexico in an attempt to save the life of a 21-year-old man who fell seven floors from a hotel balcony.

A letter written by a young Princess Diana in which she admitted trying to marry off her elder sister to her future husband Prince Charles has been sold at auction for 12,000 pounds.

An Australian government adviser on climate change has urged Australians to ditch beef and lamb for kangaroo steaks to help save the planet.

Finland’s prime minister has called for gun laws to be tightened after a school shooting that left 11 people dead.Matti Vanhanen said he believed handguns should no longer be used outside shooting ranges.