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US murderer recaptured after manhunt
UPDATE: A CONVICTED killer who tore a hole in two fences with his hands to escape from a US prison, abducted a woman and fled the state has been recaptured.
No fakin', it's a bacon wedding
A BACON-themed wedding may seem like a ham-fisted idea to some, but two couples say there are rasher ways to tie the knot.
Coke's real taste of controversy
COCA-Cola's Super Bowl ad - featuring a gay family and "America the Beautiful" being sung in eight different languages - has provoked uproar.
Tech firms reveal spy 'requests'
GOOGLE, Microsoft, Facebook and Yahoo have spilled the beans on US spy agency demands to hand over emails and photos.
Man tells how he got plague from his cat
A US man who caught the plague from his cat has revealed what it was like to lose all his fingers and toes to the devastating disease. GRAPHIC IMAGES
Steroid use higher in bi, gay teen boys
GAY and bisexual teen boys in the US use illicit steroids at a rate almost six times higher than do straight kids.
Man 'killed by stranger begging for help'
A GOOD Samaritan was shot and killed in his home after he let in a stranger begging for help.
Couple dies having sex in car
THE bodies of a couple, believed to be having sex in a car, have been found in a garage after they succumbed to carbon monoxide poisoning.
Tragic Hoffman's lonely last months
ACTOR Philip Seymour Hoffman had split from his long-term partner just before his death and was living alone in a rented apartment close to their former home.
Mountain lion mauls homeless man
A HOMELESS man has been repeatedly bitten and clawed by a mountain lion, but is expected to survive after emergency surgery.
Chilling hoax, then Hoffman died
IN a weird and horrible coincidence, Philip Seymour Hoffman was declared dead in a viral hoax just two days before his life ended.
Despite security, school shootings go on
INCREASED safety measures have failed to reduce the number of US school shootings, with at least 11 attacks this academic year alone.
Woman 'tasered misbehaving kids'
A WOMAN has been charged with child abuse after allegations she was shocking children in her care with a stun gun if they misbehaved.
Groundhog delivers chilling forecast
FOLLOWING the brutal "polar vortex", Punxsutawney Phil has forecast six more weeks of what already has felt like a long winter in the US.
Woman accused of dismembering son
A WOMAN has been accused of killing her adult son, whose dismembered remains were found dumped in rubbish bags.
California cuts off water amid drought
AMID an epic drought, California has announced they won't send water from its vast reservoir system to local agencies, threatening farms.
Woman guilty in butt-injection death
A WOMAN has been found guilty of manslaughter after helping another woman get silicone buttocks injections that prosecutors say killed her.
Wife tried to kill husband with poo
A WOMAN has been charged with attempting to murder her husband by putting poo into his IV drip as he recovered from heart surgery.
Man to be buried astride Harley
A MOTORCYCLE enthusiast's family is fulfilling his dying wish - to be buried astride his beloved Harley-Davidson. But it hasn't been easy.
Woman eats 363 wings in 30 minutes
A WOMAN skinny enough to fit into an itsy bitsy bikini has stuffed her face with 363 chicken wings in 30 minutes. Now that's what you call a gutsy effort.
Docs convinced gunman posed no threat
DOCTORS who examined a US veteran weeks before he went on a killing rampage at a navy yard gave him a clean bill of mental health.
Ex-mayor Bloomberg gets UN climate job
THE United Nations has named former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg as a special envoy for cities and climate change.
Labrador top dog for 23rd year straight
IT'S puppy love for the record books: The Labrador retriever was the most popular dog breed in the US last year for a 23rd year in a row.
Rodman offers to take prisoner's place
FORMER basketball star Dennis Rodman has offered to take the place of an American missionary being held in prison in North Korea.
Mum 'offers teen sex to Super Bowl fans'
'A MOTHER has been arrested after she traveled over a thousand miles to pimp out her 15-year-old daughter for sex with Super Bowl fans.
Watch this year's best Super Bowl ads
SCARLETT Johansson does sexy for SodaStream and David Beckham strips off. Watch this year's top 10 Super Bowl ads before Sunday.
Zimmerman set for celeb boxing match
GEORGE Zimmerman has agreed to step in the ring for a celebrity boxing match - and he's seeking challengers.
Man sucked into wood chipper survives
IN A moment reminiscent of a famously gruesome movie scene a man was sucked into a wood chipper, but miraculously survived.
Kids' school meals binned over fees
ABOUT 40 children had their school lunches seized and thrown away because their parents had not paid their school fees.
Mass gastro hits second cruise ship
JUST a day after a cruise was forced to cut short its trip when hundreds fell ill, a second ship has been hit by an outbreak.
Gunman goes on deadly Utah rampage
A POLICE sergeant was gunned down and a deputy shot in the head when a routine stop to help an apparently stranded motorist turned deadly.
Scarf stuck in escalator kills woman
A WOMAN has died after being strangled when her scarf got caught in an escalator in a Montreal subway stop.
'Ahmazing thrill' killer seeks new plea
A MISSOURI woman who as a teenager wrote that killing a young neighbour girl was an "ahmazing" thrill is asking a judge to overturn her guilty plea.
US seeks death for Boston Bomber
US prosecutors say they will seek the death penalty against Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in the Boston Marathon bombing last April.
Mum, eight kids die in house fire
A MOTHER and eight of her children were killed when fire swept through their rural home in the US state of Kentucky overnight.
Fat cat 'Meatball' can't fit in kennel
AN ARIZONA animal shelter has a rather large cat on its hands - "Meatball", a 16kg cat who is too fat to fit in his kennel.
'Killer's voice heard on 911 call'
AN INMATE in the US made several 911 calls prior to his death with his killer's voice picked up on one of the recordings.
Beauty queen 'loses title over porno'
THE runner-up in the Miss Colorado Teen USA pageant in 2012 has been stripped of her title because she allegedly made a porno.
Firefighters refuse to help dying man
THREE times people people went to a US firehouse seeking help for a man who was dying but they were told to call 911 instead.
Doc walks 10km for life-saving surgery
A DOCTOR has walked 10km in the snow after getting stuck in traffic gridlock in order to perform life-saving brain surgery.
3 boys shot dead in Thailand's south
5:40PM THAI police say a family had returned from a local mosque and was about to enter their house when gunmen shot three children dead.
China police get man accused of killing 6
5:24PM CHINESE police catch a man accused of killing two men he thought were having affairs with his wife, along with the men's wives, two boys and an old man.
Abuse charge for educator in YouTube case
4:55PM A US school administrator subject of a YouTube video seen nearly a million times could get life in prison on child abuse charges.
Google must move 'mystery' barge in SF
4:36PM PERMIT issues mean Google must move a floating, four-story building in the middle of San Francisco Bay following numerous complaints.
Another big winter storm hits US east
3:50PM SNOW is nearing 20cm in Philadelphia and New York as yet another round of freezing winter weather grips parts of the United States.
No role in lane closures: US governor
3:50PM DURING an hour-long radio call-in, possible 2016 US presidential candidate Chris Christie has reiterated that he had no role in contentious lane closures.
More than 400 dead dolphins in north Peru
3:33PM PERUVIAN authorities say autopsy results are expected in two weeks on more than 400 dolphins found dead on the country's northern beaches.
US murderer recaptured after manhunt
3:18PM MICHAEL David Elliot, who escaped while serving life sentences at a US prison for the 1993 murders of four people, has been recaptured.
Police 'scared' fans at Hillsborough
12:23PM A NEW investigation into the Hillsborough tragedy, which killed 96 Liverpool fans in 1989, has uncovered a mass of doctored statements given by UK police.
A croc may be on the loose in the UK
12:23PM POLICE in southwest England are on the alert after a bus driver reported spotting a 1.8m crocodile under a bridge in Bristol.
US skydiving survivor walks again
12:23PM A 16-YEAR-OLD girl who plummeted more than 900m when her parachute failed to open correctly will be in hospital a while longer but should recover fully.
Strong 6.1 quake off eastern Indonesia
11:40AM THE US Geological Survey says a magnitude-6.1 earthquake has hit 318 kilometres east of Dili, East Timor.
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