A dog believed to be the oldest in the world has died at the grand old age of 30 on a farm in Australia. Maggie the Kelpie lived on a dairy farm in Australia, and had a wonderful life pottering around in the sunshine, sleeping in the shade and sniffing around the yard. She didn’t have a birth certificate but …

Like a duel between rival street gangs, two Chinese construction firms have taken their feud to the streets. Half a dozen bulldozers and front-end loaders got into a battle royale on a Chinese street on April 17th, using their buckets and blades as weapons to push and claw at one another. A video captured at the scene showed the clash …

ABC News reporter Steve Campion even took his mike with him into the water to help a man from his sinking car, all captured on video. Reporter Steve Champion earned his surname when, while setting up for a live television report, he and his camera operator saw a man unwittingly drive his compact car into a deeply flooded area of …

Yosef Haim Ben-David, 30, convicted for gruesome July 2014 murder of east Jerusalem Arab teenager ‎Muhammad Abu Khdeir‎ that helped spark Gaza war later that summer. Prosecutors said Yosef Haim Ben-David was the mastermind behind the killing of 16-year-old Mohammed Abu Khudair, who was bludgeoned, strangled and burned alive in a gruesome killing the shocked the world.

While extensive research has been conducted on the hygienic results of neonatal circumcision, significantly less study has focused on how circumcision affects penile sensitivity and sexual function. The study, published in The Journal of Urology, got incredibly specific: The investigators examined whether the tip of the penis was less sensitive in circumcised men as well as whether the foreskin was …

Drenching rain, which brought flash floods to much of eastern and southern Texas on Sunday and Monday, deluged Houston, killing at least five and leading to scores of water rescues. Two bodies were found in a vehicle which was spotted on traffic cameras driving around barricades as the driver attempted to navigate a flooded underpass in the city. Another person, …

A structural collapse at a Toronto construction site sent at least seven people to hospital and injured several others Monday afternoon at a major intersection north of the downtown core. Police flocked to a construction site in the city’s Forest Hill neighbourhood around 2:30 p.m. after the accident at a building currently being turned into a new public transit stop. …

The Taliban have claimed responsibility for a huge explosion in the Afghan capital Kabul on Tuesday morning. Several people have died and more than 200 wounded after a suicide attacker detonated a car bomb. Gunfire was ongoing between security forces and the militants at midday Kabul time (0830 BST), according to Reuters witnesses at the scene.

In 1977, the alien-hunting astronomer Jerry Ehman spotted a signal from deep space which was so unusual that he scribbled the word “Wow” in the margin of his notebook. Now an American researcher has uncovered evidence which could finally demolish claims that this mysterious burst of radio waves was produced by an extraterrestrial civilisation. Antonio Paris, a professor of astronomy …

A new study has revealed that certain dinosaur species were in decline millions of years before the meteorite that’s credited for wiping most of them out smashed into Earth. Until now, most experts have believed dinosaurs were flourishing just before disaster struck in the form of a huge asteroid or comet that smashed into the Earth. New research suggests more …

Veteran actress Doris Roberts, best known for her role as the mother of Ray Romano’s character on the hit sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond, died Sunday in her sleep of natural causes, her son said Monday evening. She was 90. “Doris Roberts had an energy and a spirit that amazed me. She never stopped,” Romano, who plays the title character in …