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An Illinois mother drove to Tennessee where she dropped her mentally disabled teenage daughter in a bar and refused to take her back when authorities contacted her.

Australia has declared early 25 million acres (10 million hectares) of the southern Tanami Desert in the Northern Territory -- home to some of the country's most endangered species -- a conservation zone.

The days of boxy body protection will eventually be over for the United States? female warriors, as the nation?s armed forces are developing a new style of form-fitting body armor similar to the busty bronze get-up worn by ?Xena: Warrior Princess,? that curves at the chest and hips.

DNA taken from a chain used in an Occupy Wall Street protest has been linked to the unsolved murder of Sarah Fox, a 21-year-old Julliard student who was killed in New York City in May 2004. But just how significant will the development be in determining who murdered Sarah Fox in Inwood Hill Park?

A man attacked by three tigers at Copenhagen Zoo was found dead in a den with a bite to his throat on Wednesday morning, Reuters reported.

A train derailment in Columbus, Ohio, early Wednesday morning set off an explosion that could be seen 10 miles away and led to the evacuation of anyone within a mile of the derailment.

Jane McGarry, a former news anchor at KXAS-TV in Dallas-Fort Worth, has officially resigned from her long held position at the NBC station after pleading no contest to Driving While Intoxicated.

After a two year battle attracting animal activists from all over the world by his owner Carolina Barnes, a seven-year-old dog named Lennox was put to sleep on Wednesday having been deemed as a threat to public safety by the Belfast city council despite an online petition to save the dog. View the slideshow to see photos of Lennox.

Police have confirmed that one of the UK's richest women, Eva Rausing, was found dead in her London home this week. Reports are that her husband was arrested in connection.

Tonee Walker, the 22-year-old Buxom Bandit who held up a gas station in Australia, has turned herself in to police. Walker gained the Buxom Bandit nickname by taking down the gas station while wearing a low-cut top and showing off her larger-than-life breasts.

Kourtney Reppert, a 26-year-old blonde buxom model based in Los Angeles, is turning her cyberstalking horror story into a positive one after being the victim of vicious threats by a man named Luis Plascencia on the Internet, who sent her over 400 emails asking her to stop modeling in photos.

Police in Illinois said a two-foot-long python was found around a baby sleeping in his crib, wrapped itself around one-year-old William Winans' foot and then bit him last week.

A Detroit woman, Adaisha Miller, was killed at a party after she was accidentally shot from an off-duty policeman's gun while she hugged him.

LinkedIn (NYSE: LNKD), the leading professional social networking site, lost as much as 6 percent of its value Monday on a report that Facebook (Nasdaq: FB), the No. 1 social networking site will start direct competition.

Three people were gored during the running of the bulls through the streets of Pamplona in northern Spain on Monday.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai has ordered that security forces in the country find the Taliban who executed a woman in public.

A man's body was found in a truck in the middle of a North Austin street Monday morning in a death the Austin Police Department is labeling suspicious.

Walt Disney characters dancing on a lighted stage in a moment of national celebration -- as well as a brand-new theme song -- mark a cultural change for North Korea under the leadership of Kim Jong Un.

Academy Award-winning actor Ernest Borgnine, 95, best known for his roles as gruff but lovable characters, died of renal failure at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles on Sunday.

The pacu fish is responsible for two 2011 deaths after eating the testicles of fishermen in Papua New Guinea.

Beachgoers on Cape Cod in Massachusetts endured a close call with a great white shark on Saturday, as the man-eating machine was spotted shadowing a kayaker about 100 to 150 yards from shore. The shark prompted officials to close the beach for the rest of the day, reopening it on Sunday.

At least 150 people have died after massive floods hit the Russian city of Krymsk, and suspicions have erupted over the exact cause of the flooding.

When Texas A&M University alumnus Lt. Col. Roy Tisdale was fatally wounded by friendly fire at Fort Bragg, N.C., the infamous Westboro Baptist Church made arrangements to picket the Iraq War veteran's funeral. Meanwhile, members of the Texas A&M community made their own arrangements.

The heatwave that's ravaged the Midwest is moving east, bringing with it wildfire smoke and record breaking temperatures.

The autopsy report on Mary Richardson Kennedy revealed the estranged wife of Robert Kennedy Jr. had traces of three antidepressant medications in her system when she died.

The Samsung Galaxy S3 quite literally came under fire earlier this month, when a woman in Ireland claimed her phone spontaneously burst into flames. But after an investigation into the incident, Samsung says the phone did not cause the fire.

David and Elena Barnes are Connecticut parents who are coming under fire from both the media and Internet commenters for letting their 5-year-old daughter Anaia swim with sharks while the family was on vacation in the Bahamas.

A horse became an unwilling unicorn after he was found with a piece of wood wedged into his skull, NBC's Today.com reported. The horse's owner, Tommasina Ashley, was in shock when she found out that her 30-year-old horse, Danny, had been impaled by a nine-inch piece of wood.

A teenager who ate mushrooms shot himself in the head so he would wake up from the nightmare he was living, he told police.