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A major engine malfunction aboard a British Airways flight bound for Oslo caused the plane to start spewing fire and smoke as it headed back to Heathrow Airport to make an emergency landing.

Former French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing admitted earlier this week that while in office he was attacked by a panda.

A new study has found that Americans are absolutely terrible— I mean way, way off— when it comes to estimating how many calories are in their fast "food" meals. It's probably better that way.

A pizza delivery guy in Saint Petersburg, Russia, was caught on an elevator security cam selectively removing pizza toppings off a customer's pie with his bare hands, and then shoving them in his mouth.

A suicidal man in South Korea jumped to his death on Friday, falling on a five-year-old girl as she was walking with her parents, killing her.

The two men responsible for the grisly stabbing death of a British army recruiter were being followed by the British domestic security service, MI5, for over eight years before Wednesday's events.

Edison, New Jersey police officer Michael A. Dotro was arrested and charged with five counts of attempted murder and one count of aggravated arson on Thursday for allegedly firebombing the home of a captain from his own police department.

The Interstate 5 bridge spanning the Skagit River in Washington state collapsed Thursday evening, dumping two cars into the water. Three people were injured.