Los Angeles police are investigating a pre-dawn attack that destroyed Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame less than two weeks before the election.
The United Nations refugee agency said on Wednesday that at least 3,800 migrants have died in the Mediterranean Sea so far this year in an attempt to reach Europe, making 2016 the deadliest year on record.
An orangutan that goes by the name "Puan", which means "Mrs" in the Malay language, has been awarded a Guinness World Record for being the oldest living Sumatran orangutan in the world.
Racial stereotypes and police killings of black men are subject to the author's scathing eye
The founder of Scandinavia's first female-led mosque is a soft-spoken "imama" who has riled conservatives with her views on marriage but others say her project is not progressive enough.
The vaquita, a diminutive Mexican porpoise feared near-extinct, made a big splash at a world whaling meeting on Tuesday with pleas to arrest illegal fishing to prevent its extermination.
One of princess Aalia Sultana Babi's most prized possessions is a fossilised dinosaur egg she found an unsuspecting villager using to grind spices on her ancestral lands, an area billed as "India's Jurassic Park".
A yearlong training program to help parents communicate with their very young autistic children reduced symptoms of the disorder up to six years later, according to a follow-up analysis released on Wednesday.
Police say boy and gir were thrown clear after raft overturned and killed four adults
In New Zealand there are twice as many cows as people, but it's the hobbits that are really making hay.
An elite unit of the Iraqi army paused its weeklong advance on Mosul as it approached the city's eastern edge on Tuesday, waiting for other US-backed forces to close in on the Islamic State group's last major urban stronghold in Iraq.
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