FORT COLLINS, Colorado – The man who orchestrated a hoax that his child had been carried away on a balloon, a story that riveted television news audiences, turned himself in Monday to begin a 90-day jail sentence.Richard Heene…

A woman in England who ran over and killed a cyclist was found not guilty of causing death by dangerous driving after claiming that she may have fainted at the wheel of her car.Tracy Johnson, 35, hit mother of three, Sharon Corless,…

Israeli security forces arrested a foreign activist in a raid in the West Bank town of Ramallah overnight, her lawyer said.

BRITAIN – For most people they are a minor annoyance which disappear after a few seconds of holding the breath or attempting to drink water from the far side of a glass.But the bout of hiccups endured by Christopher Sands lasted…

WICHITA, Kansas – The trial of the man charged with killing one of the nation’s few late-term abortion doctors will begin with lawyers trying to pick unbiased jurors in a widely publicised case.Fifty-one-year-old Roeder, of Kansas…

Police in the United States are investigating what they believe is the first murder fuelled in part by messages posted on social networking site Twitter.And for the first time ever, reports the Daily Mail , 140-word maximum Twitter…

ANCHORAGE, Alaska – Sarah Palin, former Alaska governor and 2008 Republican vice presidential candidate, will take her conservative message to Fox News as a regular commentator, the cable channel announced yesterday.”I am thrilled…

The Government has committed to improving diplomatic relations with Commodore Frank Bainimarama’s interim Fiji Government.Foreign Minister Murray McCully announced the National-led Government would improve relations after talks…

Around Britain, the placid calm of urban ponds and watercourses is being disturbed by a rapacious new menace ? legions of abandoned pet terrapins.It begins with the unexplained absence of frogspawn. Then comes the slow but steady…

WARSAW, Poland – Snow, ice and cold caused train cancellations in Poland, grounded scores of planes at Madrid’s airport and disrupted natural gas production in Norway Monday, but much of Europe began to return to normal after days…