All news by author: Rachel Hagan

Lawyers acting for Erin Patterson, accused of killing three people with poisonous mushrooms, were spotted outside her home to hand deliver her legal instructions after she seemingly vanished

The Penny shop in Austria has been closed since Tuesday after the store manager spotted an enormous four-inch black and red spider that he fears to be a highly venomous Brazilian Wandering Spider

Dramatic footage shows fiery plumes of smoke filling the air as baffled locals stare at the huge smoking wreckage that dropped in the Taizi Temple village in China

Kar Hao Teoh was on holiday with his wife and son when they took a wrong turn after driving into Cape Town's Nyanga township close to the city's international airport last week

Simon Patterson believed his ex-wife Erin Patterson had tried to poison him before she killed three of his family members by giving them deadly mushrooms at a lunch in Australia

Lauren Anne Dickason, 42, is charged with murdering her two-year-old twins Maya and Karla and their six-year-old sister Liane in September 2021 at their house in New Zealand after she admitted to the horror

Frightened residents said the unidentified man runs around everywhere while dressed from head to toe white as terrified locals have compared him to Art the Clown

The group of striking taxi drivers allegedly demanded that the British doctor pay a toll but he refused, enraging the taxi drivers who then opened fire and killed the driver with passengers in the car

Due to extreme climate change, ticks are out earlier this year and also staying around longer than usual - which may mean that more people than usual are prone to catching Lyme

Popular holiday spots have been hit with a wave of new cases from the Culex Modestus tropical mosquito, which is a known carrier of the West Nile virus that's caused three deaths this summer

WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT: An Australian mother is now suing for more than $1 million (£513k) after the incident in 2020 left her daughter bleeding for weeks, requiring two rounds of surgery

Friends and family of Aidan Roche are desperately hoping for more clues as the Swiss police and mountain rescue service have ceased their efforts after "exhausting every option" with no new evidence

Arthur Emanuel Bitencourt was photographed posing with his thumbs up in the picture taken at an excavation site, but just moments later the Brazilian boy was fighting for his life

Revered monk Luang Phor Pian died on November 16, in 2017, in Bangkok, Thailand, and when his body was exhumed two months after his death he had hardly decayed at all

Giulia Pozzebon was hiking with a friend on Monte Limidario, which straddles the Italian-Swiss border when they were hit by bad weather

The 'biblical' event on beaches across the Romagna Riviera, on the southern coast of Italy, caused tonnes of tourists to cut their stay short after the pesky insects swarmed the beaches and hotels

The Turkish port of Derince has been rocked by a huge explosion, with local authorities confirming at least 12 people have been injured and photos on social media showing a massive plume of smoke over the water

Miche Zephany Sheldon, 26, was snatched by Lavona Solomon who was then arrested after a DNA test in 2015 revealed she and her husband, Michael, were not Miche’s biological parents

The tragedy occurred in the popular resort town of Cap d’Agde on France's southern coast after suspected strong winds swung the ride at Luna Park causing two teenagers to plunge below

Vincenzo La Porta, 60, is thought to have close ties to the Camorra organised crime gang in Naples and has been on the run for over a decade before he was finally captured in Greece

One disease many people fear is Typhoid - which during the Victorian era was incredibly common and remains so in parts of the world where there is poor sanitation

Yorkshireman Aidan Roche, 29, was last seen on 22 June on the Eiger Trail in the Grindelwald area of the Bernese Alps, just two days before he was due to come home

Hurtling through space is an asteroid so large, it has led to speculation it is completely jam-packed with precious metals worth £8,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 - making everyone on Earth billionaires

WARNING DISTURBING: Dipuo Kokolsi was washing dishes in a kitchen when the pit bulls broke free and mauled her face — ripping off her lips and nose — before her neighbour rushed to save her

Iryna Bilotserkovets, a model and TV presenter, has appeared on the cover of Playboy magazine wearing an eyepatch and a metal bikini after surviving an attempt on her life