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A 16-year-old girl has suffered terrible burns after her father set her on fire when she tried to protect her mother from his drunken attack.

A school teacher is under investigation for racist comments made on a student's skin colour in front of her classmates.

A couple from Manchester targeted children, including a friend's 5-year-old, to "spice up" their sex life.

Police are investigating the cause behind the caravan fire which killed one boy and critically injured another.

A 10-year-old boy was stabbed in the neck by a stranger outside his home. Police have launched a hunt for the assailant.

A married man videotaped and photographed his acts of sexual assault on victims he had drugged.

A mother made sure that the paedophile reading assistant who molested her seven-year-old son received a custodial sentence instead of a community order.

A 21-year-old woman who left her three-year-old alone to die in a locked apartment for a week has been given a 13-year prison sentence.

The mother who let her child freeze to death on the balcony claims that she left him there to get some fresh air as he was teething.

A construction worker had to get two larger eels removed from his intestine after he swallowed them alive to cure constipation and an enlarged prostate.

Specialist cleaners had to clear trash out of a hoarder's home before the police could remove his entombed body.

An ex-Drexel University professor squandered away thousands of dollars of grant money on strip club visits and personal expenses.

A children's film director and animator has been arrested for raping a woman who killed herself after the incident.

17-year-old Keane Mulready-Woods has been confirmed as the murder victim whose body parts were found in two separate locations.

The juvenile prank of knocking on a door and running away ended up sending a teenager to the hospital after an angered resident mowed down the pranksters with a car.

A group of British tourists was sent to the hospital shortly after arriving in Thailand when they met a horrific road accident.

An employee of a guest house was found guilty of sexually assaulting two female guests by letting himself into their rooms.

Mob justice led to the burning of a man who had supposedly raped and murdered a 6-year-old girl in Mexico.

Authorities fear that the serial animal abuser who mutilated and killed horses 26 years ago has returned and might soon target people.

A stray dog entered a hospital's operating theatre and mauled a newborn baby minutes after his birth.

The father and uncle of a 6-year-old girl tackled and restrained a man who kept trying to snatch the girl from her mother's arms.

A 21-year-old mother gave her 3-year-old daughter a slow death by abandoning her in a locked apartment while she went on a week-long party spree.

A 21-year-old British backpacker fell to her death at Sydney's Diamond Bay Reserve after she and her friends climbed over the safety fence to get closer to the edge of the cliff.

By following what he had seen in a YouTube video, a 9-year-old boy saved the life of his grandmother who had a seizure in the bath.

Two brothers and a man from Kent have been arrested for the abuse of a horse, a deer, and several dogs.

Trump was initially reluctant about giving his view on the royal crisis.

Infected breast implants ended up costing 28-year-old more money as well as her breast tissue.

A man passed away after being in a coma for four years due to mercury poisoning.

The search for the remains of great white shark attack victim, Gary Johnson, led to the discovery of the remains of a 21-year-old footballer who had been swept out to sea in Western Australia.