CRIME

A 36-year-old Florida man has been convicted of abusing his stepson almost a year after a waitress managed to save the boy from his father.

Alan Hall, who spent 19 years in jail for a murder that he did not commit has finally been set free.

A 26-year-old man from the Indian state of West Bengal, allegedly chopped off his wife's right hand.

Paris 2015 attacks trial hears closing arguments

A North Carolina man has been sentenced to death for murdering his 15-year-old daughter after torturing and sexually assaulting her for 22 hours.

A British woman on a vacation to India has accused a local masseuse of raping her in front of her partner near a famous beach in Goa.

Brazilian police investigating the disappearance of a British journalist and an indigenous expert in the Amazon rainforest have questioned a possible suspect among several fishermen known to have clashed with authorities earlier over fishing rights.

Death of three sisters spotlights India dowry violence

British geologist, Jim Fitton, has been sentenced to 15 years in prison by a court in Iraq for trying to smuggle artefacts out of the country.

Brazilian authorities have launched a search operation for British Journalist Don Philip and Brazilian indigenous expert Bruno Araújo Pereira.

The head of an animal rescue shelter, Caroline Dawn Pennington, was arrested after decomposing carcasses of at least 30 dogs and cats were found at her house.

A man who fell into River Thames after being tasered by police officers, died during treatment at a hospital.

A convicted murderer who escaped from a prison bus went on to massacre a family of five in Texas.

The police launched a probe after a man was found on fire at a park in east London on Thursday.

Trey Ganem has taken it upon himself to reach out to the families of the children killed in Uvalde.

A UK court has found ten teenagers guilty of murdering an 18-year-old boy when the latter was on his way back from a funfair in October 2021.

In a horrific incident reported from Pakistan, a woman was allegedly gangraped aboard a moving train by three men last week.

The German carmaker is facing legal action in Brazil over allegations of rampant human-rights violations at a large farm it ran in the Amazon rainforest basin in the 1970s and '80s

Days after a shooter wreaked havoc at Robb Elementary School in Texas, another shooting incident has taken place in the United States.

A New York couple accused of laundering $4.5 billion in cryptocurrency tied to the 2016 hack of digital currency exchange Bitfinex are still negotiating a possible plea deal while reviewing more than 1.1 gigabytes of evidence in the case, prosecutors said.

The new footage that has emerged from the Texas shooting incident shows panic-stricken students trying to flee their school through broken windows.

The daughter of school teacher Irma Garcia who was killed in last week's mass shooting at a Texas school has written an emotional tribute to her parents.

The Texas shooter, Salvador Ramos, had told a German girl that he had shot his grandmother and will now "shoot up a elementary school."

A German court has sentenced a woman to life in prison for posing as a doctor and causing the death of three patients as a result of treatment errors.

Imran Ahmad Khan, a former Tory MP for Wakefield, has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for sexually assaulting a 15-year-old boy in 2008.

Two Pakistani-origin Spanish sisters were allegedly murdered by their in-laws after they refused to help their husbands move to Spain.

A senior Conservative MP has been accused of spiking the drinks of four men, including two MPs, with date-rape drugs.

A Muslim school teacher in the Indian state of Assam was arrested for allegedly carrying beef to school in her lunch box.

A KFC worker in Tennessee went beyond the call of his duty to help save a woman after she slipped a note in his hands at the food joint asking for help, on Sunday.