The dismembered body of an Emmy-winning filmmaker who disappeared this month was found at a New York beach. While it has not been officially identified, law enforcement sources told NBC News that the remains appear to be Ross McDonnell's. The 44-year-old Irish filmmaker was last seen on 4 November leaving...
Mysterious respiratory virus spreading among dogs in US
A mystery illness is spreading among dogs in some parts of the US, baffling vets who can't work out what is causing it. Cases of the disease - which can be fatal - started appearing in Oregon, in the Pacific northwest, in August. The state has now recorded more than...
Three dead and three missing after landslide smashes into Alaska homes
Three people have been killed and three are missing after a deadly landslide barrelled down a rain-soaked mountainside and smashed into homes in Alaska. The slide - estimated to be 450 ft wide - happened at around 9pm on Monday during a storm near Wrangell, an island community of 2,000...
Frank Borman: NASA astronaut dies aged 95
Astronaut Frank Borman, who commanded NASA's first Apollo mission to the moon, has died aged 95. Borman commanded Apollo 8's historic Christmas 1968 flight, which saw the spacecraft circle the moon 10 times - paving the way for the following year's lunar landing. He died on Tuesday 7 November in...
World’s first whole-eye transplant hailed as breakthrough – but sight not yet restored
Surgeons have performed the world's first ever whole-eye transplant, a feat hailed as a breakthrough despite the patient not yet regaining his sight. Doctors "never expected it to work at all", patient Aaron James said, but the eye has shown signs of health, such as functioning blood vessels and a...
Racial bias in AI: Officers questioned father in watch theft probe after he was wrongly identified by facial recognition technology
Three years ago in Detroit, Robert Williams arrived home from work to find the police waiting at his front door, ready to arrest him for a crime he hadn't committed. Facial recognition technology used by officers had mistaken Williams for a suspect who had stolen thousands of dollars worth of...
Man cleared of sexually assaulting child after 35 years in prison
A man who spent 35 years behind bars in the US after being wrongly convicted of sexually assaulting an 11-year-old girl has been freed from prison thanks to a DNA breakthrough. Louis Wright, now aged 65, had lived near the child's home in Albion, Michigan, at the time of the...
Five US service members killed after aircraft suffers ‘mishap’ during training mission
Five US service members have been killed on a routine training mission after the military aircraft carrying them suffered a "mishap" and crashed into the sea. The military personnel were taking part in a routine air refueling mission in the eastern Mediterranean Sea on Friday as part of their training,...
Brian Jeffrey Raymond: Former CIA officer admits federal sex abuse charges
A former CIA officer accused of drugging and sexually assaulting at least two dozen women during various overseas postings has pleaded guilty to federal sex abuse charges. Brian Jeffrey Raymond kept nearly 500 videos and photographs he took of naked, unconscious women, including many in which he can be seen...
US Congress’s only Palestinian-American Rashida Tlaib censured over Israel comments
The only Palestinian-American politician in the US Congress has been censured after her fellow representatives voted to condemn her rhetoric about Israel. The House of Representatives voted by 234 votes to 188 to censure Rashida Tlaib - a punishment just one step below expulsion. Ms Tlaib, a Democrat from Michigan,...