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ELEVEN people have been detained for questioning over an accident on a theme park ride in southern China that left six people dead. They include equipment operators, maintenance workers and employees at the amusement park […] […]

A MAN found dead in his trash-strewn Pennsylvania home had lain there for so long that his starving cats had begun feeding on his corpse. Herbert Walden’s 94-year-old mother Jane was also found dead in […] […]

THE Norfolk coast, in eastern England, has been revealed as the cradle of British civilisation with the discovery of an ancient human settlement from almost a million years ago – the oldest found anywhere in […] […]

CNN has removed its senior editor of Middle East affairs after she posted a message on Twitter expressing admiration for a late cleric who was “one of Hezbollah’s giants”. Octavia Nasr later apologised for her […] […]

WASHINGTON—Alarmed by a spate of near-collisions involving airliners, the government is trying to find out why air traffic controllers and pilots are making so many dangerous errors. In recent months, there have been at least […] […]

Kathi Ludwig was about 3,000 feet from the top of Mount Shasta when a watermelon-sized boulder came out of nowhere, hitting her in the ribs and knocking her off the ground. At first, the slight, […] […]

John Travolta has reportedly asked police to investigate extortion threats made against his family. The actor – whose 16-year-old son Jett died on January 2 after suffering a seizure while on holiday with his family […] […]

NASSAU – Police were yesterday hunting for a pilot who vanished after wrecking a small plane in the Bahamas and investigators in the United States turned their suspicions towards an American teenager on the run […] […]

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. – Lindsay Lohan’s future includes a new fashion line, two new movies, some time in jail and another stint in rehab. The actress was sentenced Tuesday to 90 days in jail and […] […]

The Supreme Court has allowed appeals by two gay asylum seekers who faced persecution if returned home. Both men had been refused asylum in the UK on the grounds that they could avoid ill-treatment by […] […]