Pritha Paul

Winter solstice in the United States and the rest of Northern Hemisphere will occur on Dec. 21, 5:23 p.m. EST, according to National Weather Service.

Qiu Hengqing, 30, was publicly shamed after he live streamed himself torturing three toy poodles.

César Alexis Blanco, 20, was not given last rites as the family believed God will bring the dead man back to life.

Samuel Rodriguez of College Point, Queens, 39, was charged with second-degree unlawful surveillance, for hiding a cell phone inside the paper towel dispenser in the toilet.

“I just spoke to him [John McCain] and if you stand in the middle of the interstate in dark clothes he will meet here there momentarily,” a Twitter user wrote.

Annamaria McPadden, 36, was ordered to carry out 50 hours of unpaid work within four months for behaving in a threatening or abusive manner toward 63-year-old Janette Griffin.

The court heard that Julian Bradbury left his West Highland terriers, Ted and Poppy, inside a hot car for nearly an hour and 20 minutes, on July 11.

Stephanie Peterson, 27, of Voluisia County, pleaded guilty in October to lewd and lascivious battery sex act with a child and electronic transmission of material harmful to minors.

Karl Gettings, 56, of Newport, Wales, was sentenced to 18 years in prison with an extended license of six years.

The clip showed an oceanic whitetip shark approaching the group of divers and suddenly biting onto the leg of one of them.

“A bright object, hovered, made a loop, and fell in the sky above the ocean in San Francisco. What was that?” a Twitter user wrote.

The unnamed employee and the person who took the photo resigned before they could be terminated by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation.

Investigators found Mariusz Sz, from the small village of Parszczyce in northern Poland, sexually assaulted his wife between 2006 and 2010.

Yuan Dongfang said the idea of holding a special “wedding ceremony” for his daughter, Yaxin, came to him when he was comforting his crying daughter at the hospital.

The man playing Father Frost, the Russian version of Santa Claus, was seen laughing and enthusiastically running after kids at the party before suddenly freezing and falling backward.

As the Trump Foundation shuts down, the mystery of a missing portrait of Donald Trump, which he purchased for $20,000 in 2007, remains unsolved.

Although Wendy George was never pregnant, she approached more than a dozen couples, requesting money with the understanding that they will get to adopt her baby once she gave birth.

A look at all the movies produced by Marvel Studios this year, ranked from best to worst in accordance with Rotten Tomatoes ratings.

The baby was alive when it was found by an unidentified man who was passing by the compartment for construction waste.

The horrific incident was captured in a video, which showed 15-year-old Bogdan Firson spreading out his arms before jumping from a 14-story-building.

Maliyah Palmer was fatally shot in the head by her brother, who happened to find a 9-mm handgun in a dresser drawer in his parents' bedroom.

The officers were responding to a call of shots fired around 6 p.m. local time (7 p.m. EST) near 103rd Street and Dauphin, Chicago, when they were hit by the train.

The Pope had a pre-birthday celebration at the Paul VI hall before the Sunday Angelus, where he hosted sick children from the free health clinic inside the Vatican.

Mary Turner Thomson, from Edinburgh, recently opened up about how she was conned into believing that her husband, William Allen Jordan was a CIA agent and that she had a seemingly perfect marriage.

An unidentified 33-year-old man from Revesby, New South Wales, Australia, was seen encouraging his four-year-old daughter to fire a .45 caliber pistol that she was holding.

On a closer look, it seemed like Miller's bald spot had been filled with a spray-on color or a badly placed toupee.

Law enforcement officers were alerted to the stolen ambulance driving southbound on the 15 Freeway in Lake Elsinore around 3:30 p.m. local time (6:30 p.m. EST).

Karen Hutchinson reportedly gave her own camera to an 18-year-old student and allowed her to take naked photographs of her 17-year-old classmate for an art project on the female form.

The blaze engulfed a single story building on the Queens Boulevard Near 45th Street, where a number of commercial shops were housed.