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There's a booming market growing in popularity with now another opportunity on offer to grab a slice of Australian motoring history.
Shane Curry was found curled up with the lifeless body of Nevaeh Goddard with a sword and kitchen knife in the room, police said
BBC Africa Eye focuses on the horrors of the lives of sex workers in the West African state.
A man has been jailed after raping a 14-year-old girl in an alleyway in Rotherham 21 years ago. Waleed Ali, 42, was sentenced to five years in prison after jurors found him guilty of raping a girl under 16 at Sheffield Crown Court on Friday, the National Crime Agency (NCA) said. Ali, of Scunthorpe in Lincolnshire, was arrested and interviewed in September 2021 after a woman told Operation Stovewood officers she had been attacked when she was 14 years old and had not reported it before.
The troubled former star of Deal or No Deal has been arrested, just hours after he was revived following an overdose on drugs.
On October 13, 1989, Jimmie Wade Martin went for a drink at his neighborhood bar in Bonne Terre, Missouri. His bloodied body was later found nearby, but no assailant was ever convicted. So years later, his twin daughters began investigating the case themselves.
Twelve members of a gang are sentenced for flooding a town with Class A drugs.
A man says he was "beaten up by police" after giving a homeless person some change.
Brave bystanders jumped into action after a shot was allegedly fired in a road rage incident, while an investigation remains ongoing.
Ryan Wesley Routh has been identified as the suspect captured in a black Nissan SUV on the I-95 after Secret Service agents foiled what appears to be a second assassination attempt on Donald Trump in two months
Authorities closely followed hundreds of convicted and suspected child sex offenders through airports and warned other countries of their travel plans.
EXCLUSIVE: ‘I don’t know what he was thinking,’ Tina Cooper tells The Independent of her former employer Ryan Wesley Routh, who is accused of attempting to assassinate Donald Trump. She’d worked for Routh in 2002 when he’d been arrested after a three-hour long police standoff
With cost-of-living pressures mounting, thieves are turning to unusual heists in public places.
The doctor lost his medical license but, after a criminal investigation did not lead to charges, former patients got together to sue him.
Mark Maxted launched a "savage" attack on a former school friend he was staying with.
The Prime Minister has been accused of “pathetic and childish” behaviour when it comes to the nation’s housing crisis.
Torrential rain from Storm Boris has swelled rivers across central and eastern Europe, with one person confirmed to have drowned in Poland.
The group were arrested on Friday after Border Force officers intercepted the vessel.
KHARKIV, Ukraine—Stuck in a crowded prison cell in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, 45-year-old Viktor faces a choice. He can stay where he is, serving out his sentence in the knowledge that a Russian bomb could hit the jail any day, or he can swap his cell for the dangers of the front lines, as a volunteer defending his country.“Better to go fight with weapons, than sit here,” he tells the Daily Beast.In a tactic borrowed from Vladimir Putin’s playbook, Ukraine has started releasing prisoners for
A man allegedly sexually assaulted a woman on the same day he was released from prison under the government's early release scheme. The former inmate appeared at a magistrate's court on Thursday charged with sexual assault. "While we cannot comment on the details of any single case, those who break their licence conditions or commit further crimes will be punished."
