A man killed his wife aboard an Alaska cruise and told an acquaintance who walked into the couple's blood-splattered room that he did it because she laughed at him, the FBI has said.

ENGLAND: The owner of a top-rated bistro smelled a rat when a customer pulled a rodent from his pocket and shouted out in alarm in an attempt to get a free meal.

There are nice ways of being woken from a deep slumber, and then there is a car-sized boulder crashing into the side of your house.

A man has been jailed for a year and a day for threatening to shoot dead Barack Obama while he was running for the US presidency.