Puppeteer behind Sesame Street's most widely loved character resigns over alleged relationships with teenagers

A gang of art thieves armed with circular saws, ladders, and a generator have stolen a series of ancient rock engravings from a remote set of volcanic cliffs in California's Sierra Nevada mountains.

City that was home to the Summer of Love reins in its hippie tradition by  banning public nudity

The woman whose affair with David Petraeus led to the CIA director's resignation has told friends that she is "devastated" by the scandal and "deeply regrets the damage that's been done to her family and everyone else's".

Ousted CIA head appears to contradict earlier testimony that YouTube video was the catalyst

She first hit the news as the apparently innocent victim of abusive emails from the lover of David Petraeus. But the more we've found out about the other, other woman, the greater the mystery

With his tinted hair and tribal tattoos, John McAfee has always stood out like a sore thumb among the yacht-owning multi-millionaires who choose to live out their teatime years in the picturesque Caribbean tax haven of Belize.

Republicans demand General attends inquiry on Benghazi killings as he handles affair fallout

The man behind the Sesame Street puppet Elmo is taking a leave of absence from the programme to fight what he calls "false and defamatory" allegations that he had an improper relationship with a 16-year-old boy.

Departure of director who had extra-marital relationship is questioned by politicians as agency battles fall-out over Libya debacle