Brazil police kill elderly tourist during favela gunfight with Rio drugs gang
Police in Brazil accidentally killed an elderly Spanish tourist during a shootout with a drugs gang in Rochina, a Rio de Janeiro favela.
George Bush told Barack Obama a hilarious joke and the internet thinks it was about Trump
George Bush and Barack Obama shared a joke at a fundraiser in Texas on 21 October and there are good reasons to think it might have been at Donald Trump's expense.
Isis White Widow Sally Jones tried to recruit UK pizza chef to 'assassinate Queen Elizabeth II'
British Isis recruiter Sally Jones, also known as the White Widow, allegedly tried to recruit a British pizza chef to assassinate the Queen with a home-made bomb in 2015.
Sex robot inventor says he will soon have 'children' with his creations
The inventor of one of the world's first sex robots, Sergi Santos, claims he is not far away from being able to have a 'baby' with one of his intelligent dolls.
'Gap Year Paedophile' Richard Huckle bragged about child abuse on Facebook years before arrest
One of Britain's most prolific child sex abusers revealed himself to be a paedophile but no action was taken
Inside the the murky world of alligator hunting
Charlie LeDoux is the Louisiana Alligator Man, taking guests out on his 5,000 acres of wetlands to hunt alligators each September season.
'Racist' nursing textbook claims 'blacks feel pain is inevitable' and 'Jews are demanding'
Pearson has apologised and withdrawn a nursing textbook from circulation after it was revealed to contain a slew of prejudicial material.
Top Islamic school bans selfies
One of India's top Islamic schools, the Darul Uloom Deoband, has banned Muslims from posting pictures of themselves on social media.
Police teach cocky teen a lesson after he shoots fireworks at a terrified wheelchair user
A young thug was taught a humiliating lesson after he was caught shooting fireworks at a wheelchair user in Tameside, Manchester.
Sweden owes £10,000 to a Syrian falsely accused of an Isis terror attack – but he's gone missing
A court in Sweden has awarded a man almost £10,000 after he was imprisoned for four months, wrongly suspected of being an Isis terrorist – but they cannot find him anywhere.
Video shows convicted sex offender rescued by police as angry mob target his home
Shaun Parrott, 44, escaped jail earlier this week after trying to groom a child for sex, so some of his neighbours in Leasowe decided to take the law into their own hands.
Transgender child molester assaulted friend's daughter, 10, in the family bathroom
Miguel Martinez assaulted a friend's 10-year-old daughter during a house party at the family's home and now faces a possible 70 year jail term.
Fearless mum in citizen's arrest of 'sexual predator' who raped her schoolgirl daughter
Fortune Aragua, 25, raped the 13-year-old who was wearing her school uniform - but didn't bank on her mother's courage.
Barbados drug smuggler had £115k of cocaine hidden under his shirt at UK airport
UK Border Force and the National Crime Agency rumbled Andrew McCollin's operation at Manchester Airport.
Cannabis addict skewers lover's windpipe in freak accident during weed money row
Robert James Hart went into a fury when his girlfriend refused to feed is drug habit. He threw items at her from the kitchen sink and a knife struck her neck by "accident".
The Church of Scientology is opening a new multi-million pound 'Ideal Org' in Birmingham
Church of Scientology will open latest "Ideal Org" in Moseley, Birmingham, on Saturday 21 October. Protesters set to greet David Miscavige and his followers at Pitmaston House.
English aristocrat loses priceless emerald and diamond necklace in Morrisons supermarket
An English aristocrat has lost a priceless family heirloom while on a shopping trip to a budget supermarket.
Brutal pictures from a bloody dog and wild boar fighting tournament in Indonesia
The dogs fight wild boars in a bamboo arena in a practice known locally as "adu bagong". The animals fight to the death on Java island.
Ex-con 'beat girlfriend's baby to death and stole her laptop while she was at hospital'
David Earl Vickers, 31, from Florida, has been charged with second degree murder, child abuse and grand theft after the murder of Luca Sholey, his girlfriend's son.
Lesbian accidentally kills best friend while playing with a shotgun before threesome
Tiffani Sutcliffe shot flatmate Rhys Williamson after he interrupted the early stages of a menage-a trois-involving Sutcliffe, her girlfriend and Anthony Clegg in New Zealand.
Metropolitan Police detective admits stealing £80,000 from Heathrow passengers
Michael Harrington carried out 16 thefts at Heathrow airport. He pleaded guilty at Southwark Crown Court.
Paranoid schizophrenic chopped off refugee's penis thinking he was a terrorist paedophile
Jeffrey Barry was found guilty of murdering refugee Kamil Ahmed at Bristol Crown Court. The schizophrenic chopped off the Kurd's penis and left it next to his corpse.
Fentanyl and heroin deaths fall after marijuana is legalised in the US
The introduction of legal weed in Colorado coincided with the first fall in opioid deaths for 14 years, claims research published in the American Journal of Public Health.
Kim Jong-un resumes work on the 'worst building in human history' in North Korean capital
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has ordered workman to finish building the Ryugyong Hotel in Pyongyang. It is better known as the "worst building in the history of mankind".
Cambridge graduate blackmailed victims into abusing themselves - then shared sick pics on dark web
Geophysicist Richard Falder admitted 137 offences including encouraging the rape of a child in the UK's first 'hurtcore' trial.
Man with 'I'm a pornstar and I f**k teen sluts' tattoo on his face accused of sex crimes
Christopher Wilson, 37, is accused of grabbing a woman's genitals near the University of Cincinnati campus.
Sean Hughes dead: Watch his funniest jokes from stand-up performances and Never Mind the Buzzcocks
The Irish star of Never Mind the Buzzcocks has died aged 51 and has been fondly remembered by fellow stand-ups.
Kim Kardashian placenta eating trend is 'cannibalism', says top gynaecologist
A leading gynaecologist has rubbished the theory that placenta eating has medical benefits and even claimed the practice 'borders on cannibalism'. Watch out Kim Kardashian!
Police issue image of mystery man who fell from top floor of London Hilton and died three years ago
The Metropolitan Police have published an E-fit of a man who fell to his death from the top of the Park Lane Hilton in March 2014.
Serial child molester 'sexually assaulted in jail'
Dad-of-four Paul Orritt, who picked girls up from a town centre and plied them with alcohol before touching them inappropriately, says he has been sexually assaulted in jail.