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A prolific serial tortureslayer dubbed The Dating Game Killer died Saturday while awaiting execution in California, authorities said. Rodney James Alcala was 77.

The two oldest sex workers have served more than 3.35 lakh men over the years.

The focus may be on the big name Americans and Australians but this could be the Games where Russian swimmers could make their biggest splash in the men's events in 25 years.

A woman convicted in the 1987 kidnapping and death of a northern Illinois businessman has been granted a resentencing hearing by the states appellate court.

Texas is beginning to arrest migrants on trespassing charges along the U.S.Mexico border as part of Republican Gov. Greg Abbott's actions that he says are needed to slow the number of border crossings, jailing at least 10 people so far with more on the wa...

The judge presiding over an upcoming trial of two associates of Rudy Giuliani and a third man on charges they made illegal campaign contributions said Thursday hed be shocked if Giulianis recently confiscated phones aid a selective prosecution claim he's...

State police Thursday released the 911 call where a distraught lawyer reported that he found his wife and son shot to death at their South Carolina home six weeks after the still unsolved killings.

Terming Islamophobia a "global problem", the lawmakers, in their letter written on Wednesday, called for a comprehensive strategy for establishing US leadership in combating it worldwide.

Water levels reached historic highs in 53 rivers during China's summer last year, as authorities warned the Three Gorges Dam is facing largest flood peak since it began operating in 2003.

Just like the Zapatista rebels before them, the indigenous people of Chiapas state in southern Mexico have taken up arms, though this time they said it was to beat back the organized crime gangs plaguing their communities.

Australia's Victoria state reported a slight rise in locally acquired cases of COVID19 on Thursday after nearly a week of a hard lockdown imposed to contain an outbreak of the highly infectious Delta virus strain.

President Joe Biden aimed to rev up support for his economic agenda with a visit to Cincinnati Wednesday, where he visited a union training center ahead of a CNN town hall.

A proposed U.N. Security Council statement would call on Turkey and breakaway Turkish Cypriots to reverse a decision to reopen a residential section of an abandoned suburb and avoid any unilateral actions that could raise tensions on the divided Mediterra...

A white woman who was charged with a hate crime after being caught on video spitting on a Black woman during a protest in Connecticut was allowed to enter a special probation program Wednesday that could leave her with no criminal record.

The death toll from recent riots in South Africa has risen to 276, and police are investigating 168 cases for murder, a cabinet minister said on Wednesday.

More than half of Australia's 25 million population came under hard COVID19 lockdowns on Wednesday as the highly infectious Delta variant of the coronavirus spread across three of the country's major cities.