A south Texas man who bludgeoned and slashed to death a 12-year-old boy, mutilated the corpse and said he drank the blood of his victim is set to be executed on Wednesday (April 6) at the state’s death chamber in Huntsville.
Oil prices sank Wednesday after an unexpected rise in US commercial crude stockpiles reinforced worries about the prolonged global oversupply.
A tanker carrying crude oil from Iraqi Kurdistan region is near the US Port of Galveston in Texas, despite Baghdad has threatened to sue anyone that buys Kurdish oil.
The US Department of Energy has said it would be unable to meet a deadline to remove drums of nuclear waste from its Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico due to "safety concerns" tied to the radiological materials.
Syria's Foreign Ministry has said that a US decision to close its Washington embassy and two consulates is illegal and arbitrary.
Malaysia on Sunday launched a terror probe into the disappearance of a passenger jet carrying 239 people, investigating suspect passengers who boarded with stolen passports, as relatives begged for news of their loved ones.
Austin Coulson from Texas, the US, has driven into the Guinness World Records book after creating the smallest car, which is 63 centimeters high and just under 1.3 meters long.
Hill Taylor, a 23 years old from the University of Texas is nicknamed “Dolphin Man” for his ability to swim underwater for long periods of time.
A large explosion at a chemical plant in the United States has drawn emergency response, and authorities say more than two dozen people could have been injured in the blast.
Massive explosion in a fertilizer plant rocked U.S. city of Texas.
Several people have been killed and dozens more injured by a huge explosion at a fertilizer plant in that United States that witnesses said was "like a tornado."