The Harry Potter books are, without a shadow of a doubt, one of the most influential forms of literature in the modern era.

A harrowing search for a missing California teenager ended when FBI agents rescued the girl and shot and killed her apparent kidnapper at a campsite deep in the Idaho wilderness.

A child’s body found in a burning house in Southern California is an eight-year-old boy whose mother was killed and whose sister is believed to have been abducted by a family friend, police have revealed.