Tuesday 21 May 2013
US police said a man is suspected of stamping his girlfriend's puppy to death because she would not answer her phone.
Colorado Springs police arrested Christopher Blackstone (25) after his girlfriend discovered her dog wrapped in a rubbish bag in a bin outside her apartment.
The legalisation of gay marriage is poised to be approved by MPs after surviving a Tory backbench bid to derail it.
A tornado of rare power, that may be among the largest and most destructive in US history, has roared through an Oklahoma City suburb, killing at least 51 people, flattening neighbourhoods with winds up to 200mph and destroying at least one school.
Lando Hite, an exercise rider and caretaker at the Celestial Acres horse training facility, said his experience of living in Oklahoma’s “Tornado Alley” had likely saved his life: when the storm seemed to go quiet, he said, he knew that danger was imminent.
Sir Alex Ferguson was on Monday night named the LMA's Premier League manager of the year.
Jonny Wilkinson has vowed to do everything he can to be fit and ready to answer an injury SOS from the British and Irish Lions if the call was to come this summer.
Paul O'Connell has spoken in glowing terms of his successor as British and Irish Lions captain, Sam Warburton, describing the Wales flanker as "wise beyond his years".
Amanda Abbington - the long-term partner of Hollywood star Martin Freeman - has called it "mean" and upsetting that her bankruptcy woes went public.
Ray Manzarek, the keyboardist who was a founding member of The Doors, has died. He was 74.
Seth MacFarlane is too busy to host the Oscars in 2014, he said.
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