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Russia's Mars moon prober, the unmanned Phobos-Grunt, is expected to fall in the Indian Ocean north of Madagascar between Jan. 14 and 16, according to the Russian space agency Roscosmos.

The U.S. military started Wednesday verifying the origin and authenticity of a video clip showing its marines urinating on three slain Taliban fighters.

Police in Germany are investigating a grade school teacher at a private school in the northern city of Lubeck for teaching his young students how to make pipe bombs and detonating it in front of them to demonstrate its force.

An English mother-of-six has been cured of cancer after coughing up a tumour growing from her throat in October.

A co-owner of a fitness gym in Sydney, Australia died Tuesday while tubing in the Laotian town of Vang Vieng, where the pastime popular among foreign backpackers is done by sliding from a zip line and then jumping into a river.

Two female pilots of a British Airways jet felt dizzy in midflight and were forced to quickly return to London's Heathrow airport for an emergency landing on Dec. 20, according to air accident investigators' report.

Hundreds of thousands of Catholics joined the feast and annual procession for a black statue of Jesus Christ in central Manila on Monday despite an alleged plot by Muslim terrorists to explode a bomb along the route of the devotees.

American plastic surgeon Dr. McKay McKinnon successfully removed an 82-kilogramme tumour on a Vietnamese man's leg in Ho Chi Minh City on Thursday and then removed another large-sized tumour on a woman's face in a separate operation the following day.

A Slovenian biologist-environmentalist-photographer-pilot has started a round-the-world solo flight Sunday using an ultra-light plane that consumes small amount of clean unleaded fuel with the aim of promoting the protection of the environment.

A 22-year-old woman from Australia fell 111 metres into a river during a failed bungee jump in Zimbabwe on New Year's Eve, but she survived to tell her death-defying experience.

A goalkeeper made a spectacular goal from his end to the opponent's net with a single kick during a windy match in England's top soccer league on Wednesday.

Young Pirates, the youth wing of Swedish political party Pirate Party, has registered as a religion and church allowing its 3,000 members to freely practice their faith: file-sharing.

Europe's tallest active volcano, Mount Etna, erupted for the first time this year on Thursday sending ash cloud 5,000 metres into the air. The eruption also sent lava flowing into the deserted Valle del Bove area.

An American surgeon, known for removing big tumors, will operate on a Vietnamese man Thursday to remove a one metre long, 90 kilogramme tumour in his right leg.

American scientists have cracked the mystery of honeybees moving like zombies before dying. The behavior and deaths are now linked to the collapse of honeybee colonies in the U.S. since 2006 that is threatening crop production.

A 52-year-old from Torrensville was arrested Tuesday night for possessing a taser disguised as a mobile phone.

A man and his dog got lost while hiking at the Gambrill State Park in Maryland on New Year's Eve but were rescued by park police with the help of his iPhone, whose flashlight was used to signal his location.

Sanitary inspectors have found that water at the new government building of Hong Kong is contaminated with Legionella bacteria that cause pneumonia-like Legionnaires' disease.

A black twin and a white twin have been born to a German and Nigerian couple in Leipzig, Germany.

A 100-year-old American woman who was reunited with her daughter six years ago after 77 years of separation has been making up for lost time by visiting her grandchildren and great grandchildren.

Israel's military will soon warn citizens in real time and in multiple languages of incoming missiles that are not intercepted via SMS.

An Iraq War veteran who shot dead a Mount Rainier park ranger on New Year's Day was found frozen to death on Monday ending a 200-men search that included a SWAT team, K-9s and helicopters.

Former Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser and his Cabinet had agreed with former U.S. President Ronald Reagan's proposal to test fire an intercontinental ballistic missile called MX from California to the Tasman Sea in 1981, according to secret files released by the National Archives of Australia on Sunday. The test firing never pushed through.

Iran test-fired a new missile that can hit radar-evading missiles during a naval drill in the Strait of Hormuz on Sunday. It also announced the successful test of locally-made nuclear fuel rods for powering nuclear reactors.

One of three former followers of the doomsday cult that caused the sarin gas attacks in Tokyo's subway trains and stations in 1995 has surrendered to police after 17 years on the run to escape prosecution from kidnapping and murder of another member's brother.

The U.S. Army is developing a helicopter drone equipped with a 1.8 gigapixel camera that can provide high resolution ground images or video from an altitude of 20,000 feet and over an area of 65 square miles.

Football fans will be treated to a match that will literally give them the highs when Euro 12 opens on June 8, 2012. Ukrainian mountaineers will perform the ceremonial opening game on Mount Everest as their country co-hosts the month-long tournament with Poland.

Victoria and NSW police have arrested a father and his son suspected of stealing $6.5 million worth of cash and valuables from a safety deposit box centre and from affluent homes in Melbourne's northeastern suburbs.

A five-metre saltwater crocodile has grabbed a lawnmower from a zoo staff mowing the grass in its enclosure at the Australian Reptile Park at Somersby, north of Sydney.