ISLAMIC State militants claim they shot down a passenger plane, contradicting reports the jet suffered technical problems.

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FOUR people have been left dead after a shooter opened fire in a series of apparently random killings in the US.

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BREKKIE WRAP: A SON and his girlfriend are set to be charged after the remains of his parents were found after they went missing in July.

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ONE of the world’s most mysterious sea creatures has been caught on camera for the first time — see the footage here.

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ROMANIA’S prime minister has decreed three days of mourning starting immediately for the victims of a nightclub fire and stampede.

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AT LEAST 25 people are feared dead after an explosion at a busy nightclub during a Halloween party.

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WHEN the body of Syrian boy Aylan Kurdi washed up on a Turkish beach it made international headlines. Since then, dozens of other children have died trying to sail into Europe.

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AN eight-month-old boy has become the latest victim of a wave of violence that erupted a month ago in Jerusalem and shifted to the West Bank.

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A JUDGE has ruled against an appeal that would have allowed a transgender woman to serve a sentence in the community instead of in an all-men’s prison.

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THE girlfriend of an Australian man still missing in the Canadian whale watching boat tragedy tried desperately to save him.

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