Girl, 8, pulls 1,500-year-old sword from lake in Sweden

An eight-year-old girl has pulled a pre-Viking sword from a lake in Sweden thought to be around 1,500 years old. Like something out of an Arthurian legend, Swedish-American Saga Vanecek came across the extraordinary relic on a family summer holiday in Tånnö, Småland.

Brave young mum shot dead shielding baby daughter.

A 'heroic' young mum died shielding her baby daughter as a gunman fired more than 12 bullets into her chest, arm and legs, it is reported. Brave Dawn Boyd, who had just turned 22, was visiting a pal when a car pulled up and bullets suddenly started flying at her and several others.

Mum horrified to discover what son has done with cash family had saved.

It's common knowledge that if you're a parent of a young child, you don't leave important things lying around for them to get their hands on. Or at least you'd think it was. But the parents of a two-year-old boy from Utah had to learn this lesson the hard way after an envelope of cash containing $1060 (about £800) they'd been saving went missing.

Lavish palace once on sale for £125 million with NO reserve.

An extraordinary palace which once had a £125 MILLION asking price is to be auctioned off with NO reserve. Playa Vista Isle has 11 bedrooms, 22 bathrooms, a 3,000 bottle wine cellar and garage with space for 20 cars.

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