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Londoner Ian Barker, 61, was sentenced to 10 years behind bars for abusing two lads under his care in the Scouts' Islington branch between 1979 and 1981.

In a world first, a baby has been born from an automatically flash-frozen egg, heralding a new era in IVF technology. The baby was born in Italy.

Two American doctors have stunned the medical world by claiming that a person overdosed from cannabis.

American 19-year-old Giselle claims she sold her virginity through the website Cinderella Escorts. An Arab businessman won, narrowly beating a US actor and Russian oligarch.

The family of Irma Saenz, 51, described her as "kind-hearted, strong, independent woman" in a moving tribute after the botched cosmetic operation.

Lamora Williams is charged with two counts of murder and one count of cruelty to children in the first degree.

Brave Amber Brackney says her single parent dad is now her "hero" after he chased the gang away with his pistol when they broke into the family's Florida home.

Randall Saito has been incarcerated for 36 years in Hawaii and described by a prosecutor as fitting "all the criteria of a classic serial killer".

Russia is embarrassed after publishing an image it claimed was "irrefutable evidence" of US collaboration with Isis, which turned out to be a screenshot taken from a video game.

A Melbourne child is in a critical condition after secretly climbing back into his mother's car after the school drop-off, then getting trapped under the fierce Australian sun.

KrioRus, a Russian cryogenics firm believes it has found a legal loophole to freeze people before they die – thereby making it easier to bring them back to life in the future.

Staff at Spar shops in Cardiff have been trained to use handheld breathalysers so they can root out drunk customers and refuse to serve them more booze.

Tracie Casler was 29 when she had sex with the teenage boy at her Pensacola home during the celebrations last year, a report filed by the local sheriff's office claims.

Almost half of NHS doctors from the EU and EEA are considering relocating. Brexit has made the NHS less attractive to foreign staff, the BMA claim.

Dr Felicity Fitzgerald had just completed a PhD thesis on infectious diseases after spending seven months in Sierra Leone responding to a deadly outbreak of the virus in 2014.

Sergi Santos claims the industry is booming as Christmas approaches and he even has a theory about why his Samantha dolls are so popular at this time of year.

Two Americans died after their boat flipped in alligator-infested waters.They were among a group of four men driving in an airboat along St. Johns River in Cocoa, Florida.

The French government is considering statutory rape laws after a court controversially deemed that an 11-year-old girl had "consented" to having sex with a 28-year-old man.

Officers in North Yorkshire found a huge stash of cannabis, which remains illegal in the UK, during the early hours of Sunday morning.

The moped gang got away with thousands of pounds worth of Apple iPads, laptops and watches from the Regent Street store in central London.

Female lawyers allege that detainees masturbated at them, threatened them with sexual violence and physically attacked them at courts and in prisons in Illinois.

A disgruntled Russian post office worker will not be winning employee of the month after she pepper sprayed a group of customers at the end of a long day in Nizhny Novgorod.

Troubled Jeffrey Barry has been jailed for life with a minimum of 23 years after murdering refugee Kamil Ahmed, who lived in the same mental health accommodation in Bristol.

Curtis Van Dam was employed by Sioux Center Christian School, but is now behind bars facing a flood of sexual assault allegations made by pupils.

Father of two Imran Qureshi, 44, squeezed a 21-year-old nurse's breast and told her "it's what friends do" during a shift at a hospital in Manchester, a medical tribunal heard.

Reddit pulled the plug on the incel – or "involuntarily celibate" – subreddit because of rape-glorifying content and general trend of misogyny.

Scientists from the European Union accidentally caught the frilled shark - Chlamydoselachus anguineus – often referred to as a "living fossil".

Osman al-Alsaied was rushed to hospital after one of his buddies blasted some celebratory gunshots – but forgot to aim upwards.

The woman, Lee Yong Soo, was enslaved by the Japanese Army during World War II when she was just 16-years-old. She is one of around 30 living "comfort women" who served the Japanese.