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Police, armed specialists and the military have descended on the Watertown area that adjoins Boston where a shootout, chase and explosions have taken place.

The drama unfolded after a police officer was shot dead earlier ...

Protesters gathering outside the House of Commons at Margaret Thatcher's funeral procession on Wednesday. Many express anger that £10m of public money is being spent on the late former PM's funeral. Other demonstrators tur...

Explosions rock finish of Boston Marathon: 2 killed and at least 23 hurt.

Two people have been killed and 22 inured after two explosions at the finish line of the Boston Marathon, police say.

The blasts shattered the car...

Alain Robert, the French climber nicknamed the spiderman, climbs the Cuban capital's landmark Habana Libre hotel with no safety equipment. With hundreds watching from the streets below, Robert pulled himself up 27 storeys,...

Brazilian footballer makes goal-line clearance ... before goal collapses on him.

Criciuma defender Fabio Ferreira gets full marks for commitment in a match against Chapecoense in the Brazilian Campeonato Catarinense, not ...

Dozens of men take to the stage in a Tokyo park to declare love for their wives in an abnormally open display of affection. The husbands take turns to address their other halves loudly in front of an audience at the event ...

People gather for remembrance ceremonies across the world on Sunday to commemorate Holocaust memorial day. The date marks the 68th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau by Soviet troops in...

Venice floods after unusually high water

Tourists arriving for Venice Carnival are wading through water in St Mark's square on Thursday after unusually high levels cause flooding. Water is spilling over canal walls in th...

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An elk is filmed dodging traffic on one of Moscow's busiest motorways. The animal finds itself on the busy ring road as commuters drive to work on Wednesday morning. The elk slides and falls on the slippery...

Footage broadcast by an Algerian television station of what it claims is the activity of militants during a rescue operation to free foreign hostages seized at the In Amenas oil field last week. The video, which cannot be ...

A British woman has been sentenced to death after attempting to smuggle £1.6m-worth of cocaine into Bali.

Lindsay Sandiford, a 56-year-old grandmother, originally from Redcar in Teesside, was arrested for drug trafficking...

A catnapper is caught on CCTV camera, hastily shoving a kitten into her handbag and stealing the animal from a pet shop in Cardiff. The kitten, named Little Boy, was taken from Albany Pets, in Cardiff, south Wales but was ...

Emergency rescue crews use ropes and ladders to pull an elk from a swimming pool at a house in Linkoping, 125 miles south of the Swedish capital Stockholm. The metal cover for the pool was believed to have given way when t...

A three-year-old kangaroo bounds through Melbourne airport car park on Monday. The area was closed to the public as police tried repeatedly to capture the animal, who was showing signs of distress. Wildlife officers eventu...

Super sexy teenage girls making mirror self-shot pictures in bikini or even topless!

Are these real girls? Or are they photo models? Some of them seem to be auditioning for a job as a porno actress...

Adam Riemann, a British dirt bike rider, films his descent down one of the world's most dangerous trails in the Himalayas. Reimann, who travelled 4,500km across India and Nepal whilst making a film with his father, documen...

Video filmed by a Melbourne bus passenger shows two men verbally abusing a woman who is reported to have been singing in French. One man tells her to 'speak English or die', and a second man threatens to cut her with a kni...

World record set for how many girls fir in one Mini Cooper Car.

The Seaside Heights boardwalk sustained at least $7 million in damage from Sandy. A famous roller coaster was wiped out among other amusement park rides.

A part of a boardwalk floats through flooded streets in Rockaway Park, Queens, and power lines are knocked down on top of trees, sparking fires, Monday night.

Video of a massive explosion at a Con Edison substation on 14th Street and Avenue C in Manhattan just after 9 p.m. Most of Manhattan below 39th Street was without power Monday night.

Sunday's big match in the Cyprus league was suspended 10 minutes into the second half after a flare was thrown by away supporters, landing next to players and exploding. The incident took place in the match between second ...

A Norwegian basejumper has a lucky escape after the high bar he launched off snapped, sending him over the edge of a 1,200m cliff. Surgeon Richard Henriksen had meant to somersault off the high bar, but the apparatus broke...

Cellphone video of chaos at the 'Apple Factory' Foxconn.

A brawl involving as many as 2,000 workers forced Foxconn to close its Taiyuan plant in northern China late on Sunday, and left a number of people needing hospital ...

Naked bathers brave the cold North sea at Druridge Bay in Northumberland in an attempt to break the world record for the most nude bathers in the sea at one time. The attempt, which raised £2,000 for the mental health char...

Up to 2,000 people are evacuated from their homes after strong winds fuelled the rapid spread of a forest fire outside Valencia in eastern Spain. Firefighters have been working on the ground and aeroplanes and helicopters ...

Police in Turin say they have arrested a man who was going by the name 'Andrea Sirlo' while flying as a fake airline pilot. 'Sirlo' tricked his way into the cockpit of at least one jet, wearing a homemade pilot's uniform a...

As Apple launches its new iPhone 5 in the UK, the Guardian's technology editor, Charles Arthur, gives an in-depth review of the new smartphone and its capabilities. New features on the iPhone 5 include turn-by-turn navigat...

Thrill-seekers at Buena Park, an amusement park in California, are seen suspended 300ft in the air. They were left hanging around for more than three hours after the ride malfunctioned. One woman who was stuck on the ride ...

Documentary filmmakers Stephen Nugent and Antony Butts join activists onboard the Arctic Sunrise as Greenpeace plans and executes its protest at Gazprom's Prirazlomnoye oil field last month. Six campaigners boarded the Rus...