In the dead of winter, a group of students set out on a trek into the Ural Mountains. Their frozen bodies — with inexplicable injuries — were discovered in locations that compounded the puzzle of how they died. The Dyatlov Pass mystery spawned dozens of conspiracy theories, which have endured for 60 years.
A suspect has been taken into custody after injuring six officers in a shootout in the US city of Philadelphia.
The remains of a giant penguin the size of a human have been discovered in New Zealand. It lived in the Paleocene Epoch, between 66 and 56 million years ago.
Authorities in Indonesia want to hand Komodo Island back to the dragons. They want to close it to mass tourism, and expel the inhabitants who have lived alongside the earth's largest lizards for generations.
It's the rarest form of a rare condition — conjoined twins, fused at the head.
Ukraine's simmering war with Russian-backed fighters has an inevitable civilian cost — people are caught in crossfire or step on mines. But a surprising number die in a more unexpected way — collapsing in the queues at the front line.
For a short time in the early 1990s, Amar Kanim was famous. His scarred face and desperate story featured on newspaper front pages around the world. He was known as the little boy who had lost everything in a napalm attack.
Tynemouth has produced some well known British surfers, including four-time British surf champion Gabe Davies and Nigel Veitch, the original North East pro surfer. The special thing about Tynemouth is the mix of people, of all abilities, using the same beach.
When Haven Shepherd was a baby her father detonated a suicide bomb intended to kill the whole family. This is the story of her extraordinary survival and her dreams for the future.
He tried to fake his way to fame and got caught red-handed. Or did he?
How the Islamic State group destroyed a mosque but revealed a 3,000-year old palace.
Abdullah's father spent six years deactivating deadly landmines in Iraq — saving thousands of lives in the process.
The Chernobyl nuclear disaster of 1986 left a ring of ghost villages as residents fled, fearing radiation poisoning. But now people are choosing to live in the crumbling houses on the edge of the exclusion zone.
I've been on a diet since I was 12. I was fat, with a round face and soft, thick thighs which spread and spilled over the sides of chairs when I sat down. From the moment I became fully aware of it, my body — like most fat bodies at the time — was a problem.
A decade ago the global financial crisis saw plunging markets and collapsing banks. The human cost was profound — 10 years of low wages, public sector cuts and hard times. Here's why it still matters.
A barefoot farmer is making his way through a forest. The rusty machete he holds isn't for cutting down vines or chopping away stubborn branches — it is a defense against thieves.
The Indonesian capital of Jakarta is home to 10 million people but it is also one of the fastest-sinking cities in the world. If this goes unchecked, parts of the megacity could be entirely submerged by 2050, say researchers. Is it too late?
I've had this since I was eight years old, and I was always told I'd have two years to live.
The Cannabis Act passed its final hurdle on Tuesday in a 52-29 vote in the Senate. The bill controls and regulates how the drug can be grown, distributed and sold.
Lev Yashin revolutionized his position and became a hero of the Soviet Union.