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Ohio

Nine killed after plane crash destroys apartment building

11 Nov 2015

13.9k

RIP

Lady Marmalade writer and influential New Orleans musician Allen Toussaint has died

10 Nov 2015

5.1k

Louisiana

"This was not a threatening situation": Anger as police charged with killing boy (6)

9 Nov 2015

17.8k

Myanmar

Aung San Suu Kyi's party claims sweeping election victory - but she's still banned from becoming president

9 Nov 2015

14.0k

what's he building?

A mysterious startup, the Chinese Steve Jobs and a $1 billion electric-car factory

9 Nov 2015

17.1k

Sharm el-Sheikh

Security at the airport that doomed Russian liner took off from had major holes

9 Nov 2015

20.0k

kids these days

Meet the 17-year-old who has two degrees, flies planes, and is deferring his master's to work at NASA

8 Nov 2015

48.6k

Love Me Dollary Do

A guitar bought for €250 sold for €2.2 million last night

8 Nov 2015

17.1k

chilling

Noise heard in last second of doomed Russian plane's cockpit recording

8 Nov 2015

17.2k

Colorado

Students suspended over widespread sexting at high school

7 Nov 2015

24.3k

Louisiana

Two officers arrested after six-year-old boy shot dead

7 Nov 2015

23.8k

tributes

'A heart that shined with love': E.T. screenwriter Melissa Mathison has died

5 Nov 2015

9.8k

Ohio

Boy who disappeared 13 years ago finally found after he applied for college

5 Nov 2015

70.6k

Florida

Man who posted photo of his dead wife on Facebook says he acted in self-defence

4 Nov 2015

39.1k

merced

Five people stabbed in classroom attack at California university

4 Nov 2015

13.3k

firing sporadically

A domestic violence shooter in a San Diego apartment shut down flights at the nearby airport

4 Nov 2015

25.7k

mystery continues

A 'heat flash' was detected by US satellites around the Russian jet before it crashed

3 Nov 2015

32.7k

Suicide

Robin Williams' widow says they were 'living a nightmare' in the months before his death

3 Nov 2015

55.3k

no peking

China has built this plane to go head-to-head with Boeing and Airbus

2 Nov 2015

28.4k

RIP

Die Hard actor and former Senator Fred Thompson dies aged 73

2 Nov 2015

19.4k

sinai

Doomed Russian jet broke apart "in the air" before Egypt crash

1 Nov 2015

36.5k

Massachusetts

Witch wins harassment lawsuit against warlock in Salem

1 Nov 2015

22.4k

gun control

12-year-old boy arrested because he planned to shoot up his school

31 Oct 2015

18.1k

Connecticut

Son charged with murder as parents' remains found months after their disappearance

31 Oct 2015

26.2k

RIP

Al Molinaro, the diner owner from Happy Days, has died

31 Oct 2015

14.5k

times are changing

Condom stocks fall in China but a boost for nappies, strollers and baby formula

30 Oct 2015

10.3k

Forbidden

Polish court denies statutory rape extradition for Oscar-winner Roman Polanski

30 Oct 2015

13.3k

Las Vegas

Woman found frozen to death inside a cryotherapy chamber

28 Oct 2015

53.8k

diamonds are forever

85-year-old jewel thief arrested - 10 years after swearing she'd retired

28 Oct 2015

13.6k

South Carolina

Video shows officer flipping school student out of her seat

27 Oct 2015

41.6k

New Zealand

Parents stunt daughter's growth to make disability 'more manageable'

27 Oct 2015

33.4k

Pace yourself

A lotta eatin' - this is officially the longest baguette in the world

26 Oct 2015

12.5k

Big Ben is in a bad way...

26 Oct 2015

25.4k

halloween screams

Why do we derive so much pleasure from scaring ourselves half-to-death?

25 Oct 2015

11.7k

gunfight

Watch: Helmet cam footage of US Delta Force raid on Islamic State prison

25 Oct 2015

21.9k

mealy-mouthed

Tony Blair (kind of) says sorry for Iraq War and admits it (maybe) led to Islamic State

25 Oct 2015

12.9k

Oklahoma

Four dead and 44 injured after car strikes US homecoming parade crowd

25 Oct 2015

17.5k

democracy at work

Anti-austerity parties won Portugal's election but they've been effectively banned from power

24 Oct 2015

28.7k

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rat reservoirs

'It's like the Burning Man of rats': Have you heard about the rat crisis in New York?

24 Oct 2015

33.1k

The Koreas

Beautiful and heartbreaking: Families reunited for brief moments after 60 years

24 Oct 2015

26.5k