A married couple in China celebrated their joint one hundredth birthdays together this week. Both Shi Sifan and his wife Liu Yaogu were born on December 28, 1912.
New York prosecutors say a woman charged with murdering a man who was pushed in front of a subway train told them she did so in revenge for the 9/11 attacks.
After checking his birth date in the online database by using his pocket device, Sheng confirmed that the suspicious man was a fugitive who might have been carrying weapons with him. However, another passenger, apparently aware of the situation at hand, extended his left foot to trip the running fugitive. This gave the chasing police officers time to catch up.
Police in Maine say a woman has joined her husband on the client list of a Zumba dance instructor charged with using her studio as a front for prostitution.
Thousands of Americans have signed a petition calling for Piers Morgan to be deported after he criticised the country's gun laws on national television.
Nearly a thousand people, including members of a banned Christian group, have been arrested in China for allegedly spreading end of the world rumours, a state-owned newspaper is reporting.
Two days after a 23-year-old paramedical student was gang-raped and brutally assaulted in a moving bus, Delhi Police today claimed to have solved the case with the arrest of four people and said it will seek a fast-track trial for speedy punishment.
A chilling security camera photo shows a gunman approaching a Los Angeles man from behind on a midtown Manhattan block and reaching into his pocket for a pistol moments before he shot the man in the back of the head, police said Tuesday.
'Man's best friend' doesn't go far enough for Buddy, a German shepherd who remembered his training and saved his owner's life by calling 911 when the man had a seizure.
Mario Monti, Italy's prime minister, has announced his intention to resign after the party of Silvio Berlusconi, the former prime minister, withdrew its support from the government.
Prosecutors in the Netherlands have charged three teenaged football players after the death of a linesman during a youth football competition. Richard Nieuwenhuizen, 41, died on Monday after an incident following an Under-17 match in Almere, near Amsterdam on Sunday. He was officiating for the Buitenboys team, in which his son was playing.