Bizarre conspiracy theories which claim the horrifying Woolwich machete attack was a hoax have began to circulate.

In what is certainly a doctored version of a now widely circulated ITV video showing one of the bloodied suspects addressing a camera, the man now appears with "clean" hands....

Images of a woman appearing to pray for and comfort the Woolwich machete attack victim have emerged.

The woman, believed to be in her fifties, was witnessed approaching the suspects, asking for permission to go to the dying man.

“Let me comfort him,” she reportedly pleaded....

Pope Francis has delivered a homily in which he states atheists who do good are redeemed through Jesus.

Speaking at the Wednesday morning Mass in his Rome residence, he told the story of a Catholic who asked a priest if even...

UPDATE: Since this story went to press, several political journalists have said the Government is set to overrule advice to military personnel not to wear uniforms in public. However as yet, there has been no official announcement of this nature.

There are reports military personnel have been advised not...

Frances Bean Cobain has branded Kendall Jenner a “fucking idiot” in a Twitter spat.

Cobain, who is the daughter of late Nirvana frontman Kurt and Hole singer Courtney Love, took umbrage at the teenage model's somewhat vague...

The man killed in a suspected terror attack in Woolwich on Wednesday was a member of the armed forces, Scotland Yard has confirmed.

Police said on Thursday morning the victim had yet to be formally identified, in line with his family’s wishes his identity will not be released...

An FBI agent has shot and killed a man who had been interviewed in connection with the Boston Marathon bombings.

The FBI identified the man as Ibragim Todashev and claimed the 27-year-old was shot when he allegedly attacked an officer, NBC news reports.

Todashev...

A Femen activist has been arrested after carrying out a topless protest in Paris’s Notre Dame Cathedral.

With the words “May facists rest in hell”, the woman – referred to on the Femen Facebook page as “the angel of death” was...

A 43-year-old man has cut off his own penis in a residential street in Cornwall.

The naked man used a kitchen knife as he performed the amputation in front of horrified onlookers, The Falmouth Packet reports.

A spokesman for South Western Ambulance Service told the newspaper...

A 33-year-old Polish man has had a total face transplant just weeks after an accident which also saw his jaws crushed by stone cutting machinery.

Doctors at the Cancer Centre and Institute of Oncology in Gliwice, Poland, announced the results of the surgery on Wednesday.

The...

The Duchess of Cambridge is under fire once more – this time suffering a mauling at the hands of a prominent human rights activist.

Joan Smith devotes an entire chapter of her new book The Public Woman to the pregnant 31-year-old.

Smith, who...

A chronic shortage of toilet paper in Venezuela is to end after the country's National Assembly backed plans to import 39 million rolls.

Lawmakers voted to approve a $79m credit which will also go towards the purchase of toothpaste and soap, the BBC...

This video gives the phrase “living on the edge” new meaning – as a train squeaks tightly through a Vietnamese neighbourhood.

The footage of the locomotive passing just inches from front doors and windows in Hanoi was posted to YouTube by user captianarmstrong (aka Adam Armstrong) in...

Are you an egomaniac? Do you want nothing more than to immortalise your fine self in the form of a doll clone?

Well you’re in luck – because a factory in Japan will do just that for you.

The Clone Factory in Tokyo's Akihabara district will...

A man who set up a camera in an attempt to capture what he suspected was paranormal activity occurring in his home ended up filming his girlfriend having sex with his 16-year-old son.

Tasmania’s Supreme Court heard the 28-year-old woman – who cannot be named...

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A 66-year-old whose face was chewed off by a naked man under the influence of drugs is smiling again, a year after the horrifying attack.

Ronald Poppo lost his nose, both eyes and 80%...

Reports are swirling that Pope Francis was filmed performing an exorcism after Sunday’s Pentecost Mass.

Footage of the Pope placing his hands on the head of a child sitting in a wheelchair was captured by Catholic satellite channel TV2000.

The Pope is seen in...

A base jumper’s miraculous survival after falling 1,000ft to the ground has been caught on film.

Matthew Gough was base jumping in Lake Garda, Italy, when his parachute opened backwards and became twisted after he leapt from a cliff – sending him plummeting to the ground.

A High Court judge is deciding whether a married 37-year-old woman with bipolar disorder has the mental capacity to ask for an abortion.

The woman, who is 23 weeks into her planned pregnancy, was detained in a specialist unit under the terms of...

Touching footage of a survivor of the Oklahoma tornado being reunited with the dog she thought she had lost has emerged.

Barbara Garcia was being interviewed by CBS news amidst the wreckage of her home, following the storms which have killed 91 people so far....