A manhunt continues for an “armed and dangerous” murder suspect who escpaed from a US prison using bedsheets. Michael Burham, who has a “military background”, escaped from the prison near a forest in Warren, Pennsylvania. He was reported missing from the prison
A woman and two children have died following a horrendous house fire that has also left a man fighting for his life in hospital. More than 30 firefighters from across Cambridgeshire were called to the blaze in the two-storey maisonette on Sackville
South African police have launched a manhunt for convicted rapist and murderer Thabo Bester who escaped from a privately-run maximum security prison in the Free State province under bizarre circumstances. Bester, known as the “Facebook rapist,” was found guilty in 2012 of
The leader of a watchdog group that monitors Christian persecution in China said he’s seeing echoes of the Chinese Community Party “playbook” in the U.S., and he’s worried it’ll get worse. Bob Fu, president of the U.S.-based non-governmental organization ChinaAid, said he’s
Comment on this story Comment Christine Iturrino got home from the supermarket in Myrtle Beach, S.C. and was about to bring her groceries into her house when she suddenly and unexpectedly saw Joel, her pet cockatiel. He flew out of her open
Iran protests: Scenes of civil unrest against government How does a child sense that their country is unsafe? For Iranian-born Shabnam Kamoii, 44, — known as Shab — the first signs were at school. “It felt like 90 percent of the teachers
A criminal mastermind serving a life sentence for a gruesome crime was found guilty of a daring and elaborate escape. With two other inmates, he climbed through the prison’s plumbing pipes to the roof before rappelling five storeys with a rope fashioned
Comment on this story Comment Amina Luqman-Dawson’s book “Freewater” won the John Newbery Medal for Children’s Literature on Monday. The award is considered the highest honor for a children’s book in the United States. Set in the early 1800s, the novel follows
A tiger that escaped from a private farm in South Africa and attacked a man and killed two dogs and a pig while on the loose for days was euthanized on Wednesday. Sheba, an 8-year-old female tiger, was shot in the early
Police are searching for a leopard after it escaped from its zoo enclosure in a situation officials have described as “serious”. Dallas Zoo in the US has closed as workers and police officers hunt for the rare clouded leopard. In social media