Prince George’s County homicide detectives charged an Oxon Hill man Tuesday in the slaying of Alexandria activist Lenny Harris — taking an important step, they hope, toward unraveling the mystery that began when Harris suddenly vanished in September only to turn up dead at the bottom of a well in Fort Washington last week. Read full article > >

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Man charged in Va. activist Lenny Harris’s death

French police are looking for the person who left 20kg of gold bars on a Paris train, after the mystery ingots go unclaimed.

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Mystery gold found on Paris train

On the trail of the mystery monster Mokele-mbembe

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The Loch Ness Monster of Congo

Word has it that the Belgian cartoon artist Herge was thrilled at the prospect of having his most famous creation, Tintin, brought to life by Steven Spielberg. Tintin, of course, is the young red-haired journalist who has charmed generations of readers with his mystery-solving exploits since Herge introduced him in 1929, especially in Europe, where millions of kids have avidly followed Tintin and his terrier, Snowy, in newspapers and comic books. Read full article > >

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Ann Hornaday reviews ‘The Adventures of Tintin’

At parties and gatherings all around town, there are people you wonder about. It’s the guy who walks into the reception, hair slicked back, very Euro, tanned just enough to suggest a recent stay in Barbados. The woman with the shiny hair who air-kisses half the people in the room. Who are they? Clearly the mystery guests must be important. The question arises because of the apparent uncloaking of Albrecht Gero Muth, known, at least by some Georgetown neighbors, as the much-younger husband of 91-year-old Viola Drath. And now, far less amusingly, known as the man accused by police of killing her. Read full article > >

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For social opportunists, Washington scene offers fertile climate for reinvention

Flight data recorders recovered from the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean nearly two years after the mystery crash of Air France flight 447 are readable, French air accident investigators said Monday.

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Mystery jet crash data recovered

Two years after it fell out of the sky, the main part of the wreckage has been located at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. But will the mystery of the crash ever be solved?

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Magazine Preview: What Happened to Air France Flight 447?

WASHINGTON — Army Secretary John McHugh said Thursday that the unexplained deaths of 12 infants in housing at a North Carolina Army post is an incredibly frustrating situation, but investigators are running out of options to better understand the mystery.

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Army secretary says investigators struggle to explain infant deaths at Ft. Bragg

The man who can’t stop breaking records, the mystery of the piano on a beach, and the amazing “bottom up” beer. It’s the week’s weird and wonderful video stories in Newsbeat’s Odd Box with Dominic Byrne.

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A pint in seconds – it’s Odd Box

Scientists solve the mystery of the seahorse’s strange and beautiful shape with slow-motion footage showing how it helps them to feed.

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Seahorses’ body shape explained

The victim of a 1987 New York baby-snatching case is reunited with her mother after solving the mystery of her abduction herself.

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US woman solves own baby kidnap

Footballer John Hartson and former Wales captain Mark Taylor are named as the mystery guest runners for the traditional Nos Galan race in the Cynon Valley.

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Hartson, Taylor are race runners

Footballer John Hartson and former Wales captain Mark Taylor are named as the mystery guest runners for the traditional Nos Galan race in the Cynon Valley.

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Hartson, Taylor are race runners

Washington – A diplomatic cable from last February released by Wikileaks provides a detailed account of how Russian specialists on the Iranian ballistic missile programme refuted the U.S. suggestion that Iran has missiles that could target European capitals or intends to develop such a capability. In fact, the Russians challenged the very existence of the mystery missile the U.S. claims Iran acquired from North Korea. But readers of the two leading U.S. newspapers never learned those key facts about the document. read more

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Russians Refuted US Claim of Iranian Missile Threat to Europe

The same man had managed more than 110 burglaries or attempted break-ins of houses and cars in Fairfax County’s most exclusive neighborhoods in less than three months. Residents were scared, and police had few leads.

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Suspicious car may unlock mystery of heists