Paul Wright

A woman has been arrested after police say 97-year-old dementia sufferer Dimitra Pavlopoulou was abducted from a nursing home in Melbourne, Australia by a stranger.

Alabama authorities are investigating a possible arson case after a fire destroyed the home of Tina Johnson.

The daughter of iconic children's author Roald Dahl has been arrested in the US after allegedly running up a £3,970 bill and fleeing without paying.

Will Young has appealed for help in tracking down a bus driver who he said called him a "poofter" during a homophobic altercation in London.

Sam Clarke was found dead at a construction site in Canary Wharf after going missing during a New Years Eve night out with friends, it has emerged.

Chris Parker has admitted stealing from Manchester Arena terror attack victims after being hailed as a hero for helping those caught up in the bombing.

Texas authorities horrified to discover boy was forced to live in squalor of a 'meth house'.

Five men and a woman have been arrested on suspicion of terrorism offences and being members of the proscribed neo-Nazi group National Action.

An Alaska Airlines plane had to be grounded after a rat was spotted jumping from the jet way at Oakland International Airport and into the aircraft.

A mosque in Fort Smith, Arkansas which had a Swastika sprayed on its building alongside the words "go home" has paid off the culprit's fines so he can be spared prison.

Chance Nichols, 7, narrowly escaped with his life after wrecking a stolen car at 100mph in Wagon County, Oklahoma, to see his mother.

A horrified mother and father watched their toddler son die on New Years Eve after he was crushed by a man who fell from a building in a suspected suicide.

A man has died after falling at a construction site near JP Morgan's offices in Bank Street, Canary Wharf, east London.

Police in Houston, Texas, say Kenneth Wayne Lockings Jr. murdered his girlfriend Aracely Jernigan by nearly decapitating her with a samurai sword.

The Church of Sweden is urging its clergy to avoid using the masculine words "Lord" and "He" when referring to God in some prayers in a bid to become more gender neutral.

Iraqi courts are sending alleged Islamic State fighters to death in rapid-fire trials lasting less than 20 minutes, according to reports.

Two people were attacked with corrosive substances within a half-mile radius of Canary Wharf in east London on Wednesday evening (27 December), police have said.

British plasterer Gregory Tomkins live-streamed his own suicide on Christmas Day on the "Apple Inc Insults" chat room where people go to insult one another.

India's parliament took a major step towards banning the "triple talaq" instant divorce practice on 28 December when the lower house passed a bill making it illegal.

A 36-year-old woman has been left with life-changing burns to her leg and face after being victim to an acid attack in Canary Wharf, east London.

Zbigniew Reket, a Polish sailor, and his cat have been found in a rudderless lifeboat in the Indian Ocean where he claims they had been drifting for seven months.

A private jet said to be owned by the billionaire Tory grandee Lord Ashcroft crashed into an office block in Malta after reportedly being blown off the runway by strong winds.

Japanese police say they have arrested a couple whose 33-year-old daughter, Airi Kakimoto, froze to death in a tiny room where she had been confined for more than a decade.

Vegan chef Anthony Milan Ross has been accused of shooting dead his wife and two children on Christmas Day in Phoenix, Arizona.

A French children's magazine has been withdrawn from newsstands after it listed Israel alongside North Korea as places that weren't considered "real countries".

Convicted acid attacker Arthur Collins likely to spend even more time behind bars after admitting to smuggling a phone into prison to call his ex-girlfriend Ferne McCann.

Paedophiles are using YouTube as a shop window to advertise abused children and underage pornography to other predators, it has been claimed.

Charlene Baxter, a 29-year-old woman who groomed a 13-year-old boy over Facebook before molesting him in a tent on a Dorset beach, has been jailed.

Paedophile Alexander Georgievsky faces life in jail after luring Ruslan Korolev, 10, to his flat in Russia before strangling him and dismembering his body.