Crime

A man who sparked violent protests after burning the Quran has been shot dead in Sweden, according to local media reports.

Retail crime is "out of control" and shoplifters are carrying out increasingly brazen and violent acts of theft because they do not fear any consequences, an industry body has told the BBC.

A 13-year-old boy has suddenly died at school in South Wales - as police launch an urgent investigation.

Tracy Turner, 51, an operating theatre assistant at Cardiff’s University Hospital of Wales is accused of a string of charges including a plot to kidnap, rape and murder a young child.

A Europol-coordinated crackdown exposes a sophisticated smuggling ring luring victims with false job promises, only to trap them in debt bondage and sexual exploitation.

Retail crime is "spiralling out of control", with shoplifting at record levels and staff threatened and abused at triple the rates of a few years ago, a report has found.

A mum holding her baby slipped £2,000 worth of drugs down an inmate’s trousers while giving him a hug. Rebecca Gray was caught passing over the drugs parcel worth £2,000 at HMP Berwyn in Wrexham.

A young woman appeared in court today to plead guilty to harassment in the first case of its kind - after sending videos of herself farting.

A sexual predator student drugged and raped ten unconscious women then took photos to keep as souvenirs, a court heard.

Adam Swellings, then 19, has been released on licence after a parole board said he had made "poor decisions" when he killed dad-of-three Garry Newlove back in 2007.

Isabelly Oliveira Assuncao, three, drowned when she climbed onto a side and fell into a top loaded washing machine while under the care of her stepmother in Parana, Brazil.

An Indiana man who was pardoned by US President Donald Trump over the US Capitol riot was killed by police during a traffic stop days later.

Urfan Sharif, who killed his 10-year-old daughter Sara Sharif after subjecting her to years of "horrific" abuse, has been moved to a prison dubbed ‘Monster Mansion’.

Balaclava-clad hare coursers terrorised villagers and fire crews after driving their 4x4s through fields in a rampage across rural Cambridgeshire at the weekend.

A nurse who ‘completely paralysed’ a total stranger with a deadly drug has been found guilty of attempted murder.

A former sports coach at a £57,000-a-year public school murdered his wife at their family home to cash in on her life insurance after he began seeing another woman, a court heard today.

British engineering firm Smiths Group (SMIN.L), is managing a cybersecurity incident that involved unauthorised access to its systems, the company said on Tuesday...

A driver has been arrested for the second time after two girls were killed after a Land Rover crashed into a school in Wimbledon.

Police said a 52-year-old man was pronounced dead at a Greater Manchester bus station and that several roads have been closed around the area while an investigation is carried out.

The 60-year-old Brit was one of three people who got into difficulties at Los Gigantes natural swimming pool in the west of Tenerife - and sadly could not be saved.

The European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Bucharest (Romania) has filed an indictment against two defendants – an individual and one company – for fraud and forgery related to two agricultural projects in Giurgiu County...

On January 27, the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Riga (Latvia) has filed an indictment against the suspected ringleader of the criminal syndicate targeted by the Admiral 2.0 investigation.

Jos Leijdekkers, reportedly the son-in-law of African country’s president, was sentenced to 24 years in prison