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A gunman has killed at least 13 people, injured up to 26 others and taken up to 41 people hostage in Binghamton, New York state.

Gordon Brown is to offer to send extra British troops to Afghanistan to provide security during the country’s upcoming presidential election, officials have said. 

The temporary increase in military personnel would depend on other Nato members being prepared to deploy extra soldiers, officials added.

Despite a request from the current chairman, ex-RBS chief Sir Fred Goodwin is not contemplating giving back any of his pension, Sky sources have said.

A good Samaritan said he walked in on an unthinkable scene inside a Gardner laundry room when he saw a mom trying to strangle her bloodied 2-year-old with an electrical cord while yelling, “I have to kill you.”

A western Pennsylvania mother has been charged with giving her 13-year-old daughter drugs and alcohol so the woman’s boyfriend could get the girl pregnant, police said Thursday.

Angry residents of a Buckinghamshire village blocked the driver of a Google Street View car when he started taking photographs of their homes.

Police were called to Broughton, near Milton Keynes, after residents staged the protest accusing Google of invading their privacy and “facilitating crime”.

A Malawian court has ruled that US pop star Madonna has failed in her bid to adopt a second child from the country.

“I must have to decline to grant the application to Madonna,” judge Esmie Chondo said in a ruling following a closed-door hearing on Friday.

The world’s most powerful laser, which can simulate the energy force of a hydrogen bomb and the sun, has been built in the US.

Built in California and measuring the size of a football pitch, the National Ignition Facility (NIF) is the culmination of more than 10 years of work, at a cost of nearly £2.5bn.