A 12-year-old boy driving a stolen forklift truck led police in the US on an hour-long chase - and hit about 10 parked cars during the pursuit. The truck, equipped with a forklift and weighing up to 35,000 pounds, was stolen from outside a middle school in Ann Arbor, Michigan,...
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...
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...
Makaylia Jolley: Mother, 21, ‘will die in prison’ after slamming baby girl on concrete and killing her
A mother who admitted repeatedly "slamming" her baby girl onto concrete has been sentenced to life in prison for her murder, without the chance of parole. Makaylia Jolley, 21, from Mississippi, took her two-month-old daughter Khalysie "by the ankles, slammed her into the pavement multiple times, and then left her",...
Republican presidential rivals lock horns as absent Donald Trump mocks ‘unwatchable’ debate
Donald Trump's rivals for the Republican presidential nomination have taken to the stage in Florida as they try to dislodge the frontrunner from his commanding lead in opinion polls. Local Governor Ron DeSantis and former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley both criticized the former president for skipping a third event. Meanwhile,...
Chinese regulators propose two-hour phone limit per day for under 18s
Chinese regulators have proposed rules that would limit under 18s to a maximum of two hours a day on their smartphones. The country's cyberspace regulator said it wanted providers of smart devices to introduce a so-called 'minor mode' which would bar users under the age of 18 from accessing the...
Yacht that Princess Diana spent last summer on with Dodi Al-Fayed sinks to bottom of Mediterranean
A motor yacht used by Princess Diana and her boyfriend Dodi Al-Fayed on their final summer holiday in the South of France before they died in a Paris car crash has sunk. The 19m (62ft) Cujo went down 21 miles (35 km) off Beaulieu-sur-Mer after sending out a mayday call...