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A teenager who was fined for littering when he dropped a deflated balloon in a city centre may fight the case.

Sharmaarke Hassan, 17, was found with a gunshot wound to the head in Gilbeys Yard, Camden, at about 2300 BST on Saturday. The teenager, from Camden, who had drug convictions, died in hospital from his injuries on Wednesday night.

Thousands gathered this weekend in Roswell, N.M., for the annual UFO Festival. A costume contest took place in the city famous for a UFO incident in 1947.

A 49-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murdering a woman who died of neck injuries in Oxfordshire.

A 19-year-old man is in a critical condition in hospital after being stabbed in the stomach in east London.

A man has appeared in court charged with murdering his three-month-old son at their home near Doncaster. Alfie Goddard died at Sheffield Children's Hospital on Monday after being injured in an incident on Friday, South Yorkshire Police said.

Around the time gas shot past $4 a gallon, Nevada brothel owner Bobbi Davis decided she had to do something. So, starting this week, visitors to her Shady Lady Ranch in remote eastern Nevada get $50 of free gas for every $300 they spend on, well, you k

A pub has been damaged by a number of small fires started by an arsonist. Bedfordshire Fire Service was called to the empty pub The Vine in Castle Street, Luton just after 0001 BST on 21 May.

Using his trusty BB gun to help him return to Earth, a 48-year-old gas station owner flew a lawn chair rigged with helium-filled balloons more than 200 miles across the Oregon desert Saturday, landing in a field in Idaho. Kent Couch created a sensation

Using his trusty BB gun to help him return to Earth, 48-year-old gas station owner Kent Couch realized his boyhood dream Saturday of flying a lawn chair rigged with helium-filled party balloons more than 200 miles across the Oregon high desert to land ...

ROME, Italy (AP) -- A fake priest was caught trying to hear confessions in St. Peter's Basilica and was tried by a Vatican tribunal, a Vatican judge said in an interview published Saturday.

GREENDALE, Wisconsin (AP) -- A 91-year-old woman who had crawled under her car to look for her keys ended up stuck beneath an axle for two days until her mail carrier noticed letters piling up, police said.Betty Borowski, of the Milwaukee suburb of Green

For more than a century, it has cast its large and eerie shadow across the paranormal landscape. Although it's reportedly haunted by many spirits, the house itself is probably weirder than any ghost story

Inspiration Stump, located in the woods near Lily Dale, is believed to be a site of psychic energy. Guests and mediums gather here to receive messages from the spirit world.

The Liberty Theatre at the Joint Forces Training Base, called 'a diamond in the rough' before it was refurbished, is home to at least five musical productions a year.

Thousands Worldwide Prepare for the Apocalypse, Expected in 2012

NEW YORK--Who hasn't snickered at "Jaywalking," a "Tonight Show" segment in which host Jay Leno flummoxes unsuspecting young people on the street with such tricky questions as: In what country is Paris located? Or cringed to see Miss America 2007 humil

Glasgow was in shock after two women were found murdered in just 24 hours, says the Daily Record. The Courier says a woman found murdered in a brutal attack at a city park was named by police.

Armed police have detained two men in an operation linked to an explosion in a restaurant in Exeter.

Riding a green lawn chair supported by a rainbow array of more than 150 helium-filled party balloons, Kent Couch took off Saturday in a third bid to fly from central Oregon all the way to Idaho.

A van filled with gas tanks and welding equipment burst into flames on a Florida road. WPLG's Sasha Andrade reports.

Larry David, co-creator of the hit TV show "Seinfeld," made millions of dollars from the show before creating his own hit HBO show, "Curb Your Enthusiasm," where he portrays himself."Curb Your Enthusiasm" focuses on how, despite being rich and famous,

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Police called out to a 999 call about an unexplained object in the night sky solved the mystery straight away for their operator - "it's the Moon, over."

BARABOO -- A 400-pound statue of the Virgin Mary was recovered recently in a Baraboo cemetery after it was stolen from a church in Sauk City -- possibly by members of a satanic cult.