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USstocks have plunged after Senators revealed they have not agreed a deal to bail-out America's ailing auto industry.

Dutch coffee shops - famous for decades for selling cannabis legally - are under threat from a new zero-tolerance policy to drugs.

A vet in Australia thought he was seeing double when a cat in labour gave birth to a two-headed kitten.

An Australian mayor who begged unattractive women to move to his hometown to counter a lack of eligible women has been crowned 'sexist of the year'.

Somali pirates who hijacked the Saudi-owned Sirius Star supertanker are demanding $25m (£17m) in ransom to be paid within 10 days.

So I'm standing in the middle of the world's biggest fireworks display, Kylie Minogue has just finished performing on stage, and earlier on some of those famous types strolled down a red carpet.

Turkey's social services agency wants Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York, to be charged over her involvement in a British TV programme on Turkish orphanages.

Amanda Knox's parents are appealing for cash and air miles to help her fight charges over the slaying of British student Meredith Kercher.

A grenade attack at the office of Thailand's prime minister has killed a member of an anti-government group and wounded 29 other people.

An American rapper who shot a man twice has been jailed for 20 years after admitting to the crime in a song.