The friend said that Broadwell, pictured left on Monday morning, deeply regrets the damage that has been done to her family and others. The author, who was writing a biography of former general David Petraeus (top right) when they started an extra-marital affair, has been staying with her brother in Washington D.C. ever since news of the relationship broke more than a week ago. But she moved back to her home in Charlotte, North Carolina on Sunday, accompanied by her husband Scott (bottom right) and their two children.

Miami man Matthew Milewski, pictured, is facing felony charges and could spend up to five years in prison for beating a four-month old Beagle, Molly, seen left, to death within a day of adopting it. The high-frequency trader denies the charges, claiming he was only aggressively training the dog, as 'dogs don't become extremely obedient with rainbows and sugarplums.'

A new documentary claims that O.J. Simpson's ex-wife Nicole Brown, centre, was the victim of a known serial killer and not her famous football star ex. Glen Rogers, left, was convicted of killing two women in 1995, and the latest theory is that his killing spree began months before with Brown-Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman. The Investigation Discovery documentary claims that Rogers had boasted that he befriended Nicole shortly after he moved to Los Angeles from Ohio.

Jonathan Trappe, 38, took off just like the 78-year-old character Carl Frederickson in the hit movie. Trappe, from Raleigh, North Carolina, stepped into the cartoon themed home before soaring above the Leon International Balloon festival in Mexico yesterday

The CNN anchor was speaking to camera in the midst of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict on Sunday night when a rocket exploded just a few blocks from where he was standing, causing the journalist to duck for cover. So far, 96 Palestinians and three Israelis have died since the conflict began last Wednesday.

Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton were greeted by cheering crowds when they touched down in Myanmar in south-east Asia on Monday morning. Their historic visit to the long-isolated nation featured a meeting with Aung San Suu Kyi, the iconic pro-democracy leader who was placed under house arrest by a brutal military regime for nearly two decades. Obama also met president Thein Sein, whose unexpected reforms have led to a transition from dictatorship to democracy.

Most people probably wouldn't want to live in a garbage truck, but then again most garbage trucks don't have the amenities this one does. Unicat Amerigo - which bills its models as the 'ultimate family Expedition Vehicle' - are so huge that despite being built as exploration vehicles they're often mistaken for garbage trucks in photos.

Delaware police are searching for two men they suspect shot and killed a college student last week.
Peter DiSabatino, 20, (pictured), an undergrad at the University of Delaware, was shot and killed outside his off-campus apartment Monday night, New Castle County police said. Police say the two mean were wearing hooded sweatshirts, one gray and one black.

Photographs show the pair heading to the Cinepolis movie theatre in the coastal town of Del Mar, California to watch the new Twilight film, after Romney previously admitted he was a fan of the franchise. They then headed for dinner at Sammy's, a pizza restaurant across the street, where they posed for photographs with fans.

For decades the sprawling compound, run by thefeared East German State Security, was never noted on East German maps. The area was simply left blank. Between 1951 and 1989, thousands of political prisoners, including many notable figures who opposed the communist government and its policies, were detained at Hohenschönhausen where they were subjected to extreme interrogation techniques.

Brought up as an Orthodox Christian by her mother, Aminat Kurbanova looked a picture of happiness at her wedding nine years ago (main photo) - marrying the man with whom she had fallen in love at drama school. However she converted to Islam in 2007 (inset) and three months ago walked into the house of a top Muslim cleric in Dagestan, Russia, wearing a 3lb bomb and blew herself up - killing eight people including her.

San Francisco, home of the Haight Ashbury area that was the heart of the '60s hippie movement, is considering a ban on public nudity. Complaints about a group of devoted nudists who gather almost daily in a Castro District park and sometimes rove the streets sparked the proposed ban, a city official said.

Family and friends of Lenel Moore, 87, cheered, applauded and wept on Saturday as Moore, one of the first African Americans to serve in the U.S. Marine Corps, received the Congressional Gold Medal in Ashtabula. 'If I had to do it over again, I would,' said Mr Moore, wiping away his own tears after receiving the medal from the members of the 3rd Battalion, 25th Marines from suburban Cleveland.

As San Francisco's Momentum Machines prepares its new restaurant chain it's figured out all the details: decor, ingredients, location. The only thing they don't have to worry about is chefs. That's because they plan to start the world's first fast food chain where all the cooking is done entirely by robots.

WNBA legend Chamique Holdsclaw, pictured left, in custody, appeared before a Fulton County judge in handcuffs and a dark navy prison suit after allegedly attacking her ex-girlfriend's Range Rover. It is claimed the basketball star poured gasoline over the car belonging to Jennifer Lacy, pictured top right, before later hitting the vehicle with a baseball bat, pictured bottom right, and then shooting a gun into the car in Atlanta last week. Holdsclaw has now been released on $100,000 bail on the condition she wears an ankle tag to monitor her whereabouts.

Plastic mini-me dolls manufactured to resemble iconic characters from film and TV invariably look nothing like the iconic characters from film and TV. At least, not until Noel Cruz has taken his paintbrush to them, that is. The Filipino portrait artist - known in the doll community as a 'repaint artist' - is known for his ability to turn even the most basic Mattel or Hasbro figurine into an incredibly realistic version of the celebrity on which it is modelled. Featured in Cruz's catalogue are Twilight stars Edward Cullen and Bella Swan, as well as vampires Laurent, James and Victoria.

Simon Woodroffe's prototype comprises of hidden rooms including a bedroom which descends from the roof and a sunken sitting room. They are operated via 12 mechanical moving parts and are designed to create four 80sq m rooms in one single 80sq m apartment. The property boasts a master bedroom suite, second bedroom, cinema, dining room, office, full-size kitchen, breakfast room, bathroom, party room and even a wine cellar.

The 61-year-old Harwell Dekatron (or WITCH) computer has been rebooted at The National Museum of Computing, based at Bletchley Park, Buckinghamshire. Weighing an incredible 2.5 tonnes, it is as heavy as 20,000 iPhones and could fill an entire room.

National Geographic's weekly collection of moving photos shows a wide range of natural beauty from around the globe. One of the most striking images is that of a sleeping male lion whose light white fur stands in stark contrast to the green South African fields.

Jacob Eisenstein at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta and his colleagues examined millions of tweets sent from locations in the U.S. between December 2009 and May 2011 to find out where commonly used slang words were originating. This map shows the areas where American slang terms tend to come from, and the paths they take across the country as they grow in popularity.

Now named 'Abe,' the squinty-eyed grey kitten's cries had been heard from around the statue at Clermont President's Hall of Fame in Florida for a number of days before its rescue. But by the time firemen with the Minneola Fire Department got to it on Sunday afternoon, its cries were heard drastically more faint.

A security guard died in the massive blaze at Himalaya House in the heart of the Indian capital early on Monday morning. Plumes of smoke darkened the sky and flames licked from windows, eyewitnesses said.