A 2008 file photo of Robert F Kennedy Jr and his then wife Mary Richardson Kennedy.

Kennedy found dead

Tragedy has again struck America's Kennedy family with the ex-wife of Robert F Kennedy Junior found dead.

Highway killer warnings

8:52am Drivers urged to use caution in a US state when approached by vehicles with flashing lights after two murders possibly carried out by person posing as a police officer.

Emily 'stood no chance' - lawyer

English court hears Emily Longley murder accused Elliot Turner described as remorseless, controlling, possessive and vicious.

Killed man's mum gets payout

17 min ago The mother of a homeless man who died after he was beaten and repeatedly shocked with a stun gun by police in the US has reached a NZ$1.3m settlement.

Groom made odd phone call

The husband of a bride found stabbed to death in a bath called his new sister-in-law and said he left his wife bleeding after a "bad fight."

Aussie teenage runaways found

Found To be alone, two teens switched off their phones, stripped their Facebook pages and ran away.

Arrow shot wallaby euthanased

The RSPCA has euthanased a baby wallaby shot through the neck with an arrow and found dying in suburban Brisbane.

He shouldn't be alive

Anti-gay professor quits

'I'm for Mitt Romney', says Bush

Mitt Romney George W Bush finally weighed on the presidential race with four short words.

Gay US prosecutor blocked

A US statehouse has rejected the judicial nomination of a prosecutor—just because he is gay.

39 injured in political bombing

American government critic dies

Bum jabs damage lungs claim

An exotic dancer claims buttock enhancement jabs were carried out on a dining room table and the injection sites were closed with Krazy Glue.

Mladic taunts survivors

SURVIVORS TAUNTED: Former Bosnian Serb army commander Ratko Mladic attends his trial at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia at The Hague. War crimes accused Ratko Mladic made a throat-slitting gesture to a woman who lost her son, husband and brothers in the Srebenica massacre at the start of his trial.

Anti-Putin protest shut down

Russian riot police have broken up an Occupy-style protest against President Vladimir Putin, forcing dozens of people out of a central Moscow park.

DSK countersues maid

Mladic finally faces justice

Greece gets caretaker PM

A senior judge has been sworn in to head Greece's caretaker government for a month as it lurches through a political crisis that threatens its membership in the 17-nation eurozone.

'Mossad agent' hanged for killing

Majid Jamali Fashi Iran has reportedly hanged a man whom it convicted of killing one of its nuclear scientists in 2010.

Observers caught in violence

The UN's observer mission in Syria has been caught up in a burst of violence captured on video, with a roadside bomb damaging its cars.

Rapper draws death bounty

Syria peace plan 'unravelling'

Assad warns against 'sowing chaos'

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has warned that countries trying to "sow chaos" in Syria could be infected with it themselves.

1 critical, 5 stable after crash

RESCUED: Air hostess Roshni Saiju is brought taken to hospital for treatment after being rescued from a plane crash site near Jomsom in Nepal. Police say an Indian man who was among six people who survived a deadly plane crash this week in northern Nepal is in critical condition. The five other survivors are stable and recovering in a hospital

Bicycle bomb kills nine in Afghanistan

Explosives planted on a bicycle have killed nine people in the relatively peaceful Faryab province of northern Afghanistan, police say.

Plane carrying 21 crashes in Nepal

Welcome to the jungle

Crashed jet's black box found

A week after a new Russian passenger jet slammed into a jagged, mist-shrouded cliff on a dormant Indonesian volcano, the aircraft's ''black box'' has been found.

Kiwi reveals Zimbabwe prison hell

Robin Hammond Sharing a single toilet with 250 wretched, lice-ridden prisoners, Robin Hammond tried not to think about his French fiancee.

Top Kony commander captured

Uganda is a step closer to catching notorious war crimes accused Joseph Kony after capturing one of the top five members of his Lord's Resistance Army.

Warcrimes sentence must be 'fair'

Somali pirates hijack oil tanker

EU gunships attack pirate bases

European helicopter gunships have attacked a pirate base on the Somali coast, destroying five speedboats, in the first such airborne strike on land by the anti-piracy force.

Volcano grows at astounding rate

Undersea volcano at Monowai seamount Scientists find astounding destruction and growth at underwater volcano north of New Zealand.

Miss Fiji dumped after race row

A 16-year-old Fiji beauty queen, harshly criticised for not being indigenous enough, has lost her crown.

Top NZ cop to Tonga

Former Cook Islands PM dies

Fraud accused Vanuatu official in court

A senior Vanuatuan official has appeared briefly in court over fraud allegations.

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