An electricity bill for more than $284bn (£212bn) left a woman in the US state of Pennsylvania stunned… until she found out the amount was wrong. Mary Horomanski from Erie […]

One Chicago woman is proving that it doesn’t take a whole lot to be a big blessing this Christmas season. Jessie Tendayi bought thousands of toys for sick children with […]

A baby girl has been attacked in her room by a raccoon in the US city of Philadelphia, her family says. Four-month-old Jourini Black suffered claw marks to the face […]

One of two US girls convicted of a 2014 stabbing to honour the horror character Slender Man has been sentenced to 25 years in a mental hospital. Anissa Weier, 16, […]

Characters from the children’s television programme Sesame Street are going to be used to help teach children displaced by war in Syria. The Sesame Workshop and the International Rescue Committee […]

“Greedy” fat cats at a Russian institution have caused a stir on social media, after incriminating pictures emerged online. But in the lionesses’ defence, the row isn’t really their fault. […]

A Kenyan court has awarded a schoolgirl four million Kenyan shillings ($40,000; £30,000) after she was strip-searched by police looking for drugs in 2015. Half-naked pictures of the young woman, […]

A Japanese court has ruled a father legally responsible for a child who was born after his ex-partner impregnated herself with a frozen embryo without his knowledge. The man conceded […]