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A baby was born during a traffic jam caused by a fatal accident that claimed another person's life in Washington D.C.

Virgin Group founder Sir Richard Branson is known for his many exploits in the travel and tourism industry. From space tourism to new ventures in the railway sector, the British entrepreneur has a deep-set passion for high-end adventurous vehicles.

A green sea turtle that was badly injured was sent back into the wild off Florida's coast on Wednesday.

They are elegant, they are glamorous and they are the top 10 international best dressed women for the year 2011.

Researchers from University of Utah suggest that the human evolution millions of years ago might have been with the help of savannas, rolling grassland of Africa.

A woman from Clinton, Connecticut was accused of having sex with a 14-year-old boy she was babysitting, after she got him drunk.

Vampire bats can locate hot-spots or blood vessels in their prey using infrared vein sensors on their lips, a new research claims.

Earth once had two moons a small second moon until the two moons got smashed into each other to create a big lunar body.

The Justice Department charged 72 members of an online child pornography ring. Members were encouraged to have sex with children ages 12 and under and turn in material.

Timothy Lee Gentry, 33, of Burlington, Ky., was sentenced to 25 years in prison on May 10. Michael Biggs, 32, of Orlando, Fla., was sentenced to 20 years in prison on May 31, 2011. While Michael Childs, 49, of Huntsville, Ala., was sentenced to 30 years in prison in June and Charles Christian, 49, of Tilton, Ill., will spend more than 22 years in prison, according a press release from the U.S. Department of Justice.

Police will not confirm or deny a search warrant is in connection with a missing Indiana University Student

Redmond O'Neal, the son of actors Farrah Fawcett and Ryan O'Neal, was arrested again on Tuesday after police said they found heroin and marijuana inside his car.

A Los Angeles man who may have served time in jail for setting fire to restaurants and bars in Japan while stationed there as a U.S. Marine is suspected in a spree of arson attacks in California, authorities said on Tuesday.

The 1m-wide spherical tank was found in Lake Nacogdoches, near the Texas town of the same name where much of the debris initially fell. The tank was part of the ill-fated orbiter's electrical power system and contained liquid hydrogen or oxygen.

Casey Anthony's defense attorneys are fighting a judge's order requiring her to return to Florida and serve a year of probation for a check fraud conviction. Anthony's attorneys said that she would be in "great peril" if she were to return.

The Sydney teenage girl named Madeleine Pulver has been reported to be safe and freed from the bomb device attached to her for 10 hours. A bomb collar device was attached onto her by an unidentified man who broke into her family's mansion. He forcibly locked the collar around her neck then fled the scene, allow the teenager to call police.

A male peacock was on the loose in New York City.

There is newfound media interest in the D.B. Cooper case as the FBI follow a "promising" lead to solve the 40-year mystery of the hijacker's true identity once and for all.

An 18 year old girl was forced to wear an elaborate and sophisticated bomb device around her neck after an assailant broke into the teenager's home. Police spent the next 10 hours working to free the Australian teen from the live device preventing detonation and perhaps saving hundreds of lives in the wealthy Sydney town.

Marla Cooper, the alleged niece of hijacker D.B. Cooper, said when she was 8 years old she heard her two uncles planning something suspicious while at her grandmother's house in Oregon.

Rapid City police officer James Ryan McCandless was the son of retired Midland County Undersheriff James McCandless.

Marla Cooper spoke told ABC News she is sure that her uncle Lynn Doyle Cooper is the one who pulled off the notorious 1971 hijacking by threatening to blow up a commercial jetliner before leaping from the airplane with a parachute and $200,000 in ransom.

The mayor of Vilnius is taking a hard line against illegal parking. Lithuanian Mayor Crushes Illegally Parked Car with a Tank

Earlier this week, a judge ordered Anthony to return to Orlando to serve a year of probation for check fraud, which she pleaded guilty to in an earlier case. The Florida mom's lawyers have already filed a motion to quash that order, and has argued that the judge cannot amend his sentence more than 60 days after it was signed in January 2010.

As of 8 a.m. on Wednesday, Emily was located at about 145 miles southeast of Santo Domingo, the capital of the Dominican Republic with maximum sustained winds of 50 miles per hour, or 85 kilometers per hour. Emily is still on a westward movement at a speed of 14 miles per hour, according to the National Weather Service.

Casey Anthony's location is finally revealed.

Here are some of the most rare and spectacular pictures of the genetically modified glowing animals.

An Oregon woman, who spent three nights at the Mount Hood National Forest after falling off a cliff, said she ate berries and bugs, drank water from a creek and tried to scoot to safety on her bottom as she could not walk.

Researchers and scientists working in Uganda said on Tuesday that they have unearthed a 20 million-year-old well-preserved fossil skull of an ancient primate in the Karamoja region northeast of Kampala, Uganda.