In a gruesome incident reported from Karachi, Pakistan, a man allegedly suffocated his wife to death before boiling her body in a cauldron.
A former CIA software engineer was convicted on Wednesday of leaking classified information to WikiLeaks from the spy agency, in one of the biggest such thefts in CIA history.
A 40-year-old man named Stephen Woodall attacked a senior citizen and bit his face because the latter allegedly did not show respect to the Queen.
The police launched a manhunt for a woman who slashed her friend's face for allegedly flirting with her boyfriend during a night out in Newport, Wales.
A 25-year-old man killed a woman by slitting her throat after she rejected his sexual advances at the latter's apartment complex in east Delhi, India.
The former leader had been delivering a stump speech at an event ahead of Sunday's upper house elections when the apparent sound of gunshots was heard
A 49-year-old man from Irbid, Jordan has been accused of beating his two daughters to death with a stick.
Iran's Revolutionary Guards have detained several foreigners, including Britain's second most senior envoy in Tehran, for alleged acts of spying such as taking soil samples in restricted areas, state television reported on Wednesday.
The police in Germany have sought the general's public help to identify a possible murder victim by her teeth.
A 20-year-old man from Louisiana has been accused of shooting his pregnant girlfriend dead before throwing her 2-year-old son off a bridge and killing him.
A court in Russia has sentenced a paedophile to 19 years in prison for sexually abusing a 7-year-old boy and holding him hostage for 52 days.
A leading Premier League footballer has been arrested on suspicion of rape after a woman in her 20s filed a complaint against the said player last week.
Police officials said the shooting began at 10:14 am, when the parade was approximately three-quarters of the way through.
The manager of a famous bar in Nice, France has been arrested after police found a decomposing body in one of the concrete walls of the bar.
William Goler, the head of an incest clan living in an isolated part of Canada, allowed his family members to have sex with the children.
A woman from Serbia allegedly killed her husband and hid his head in a barrel inside the family barn.
Three people were killed and several more were wounded in a shooting at a shopping centre in Copenhagen on Sunday, Danish police said, adding they had arrested a 22-year-old Danish man and charged him with manslaughter.
Assange is wanted to face trial for allegedly violating the US Espionage Act by publishing military and diplomatic files in 2010, related to the Afghanistan and Iraq wars.
Multiplatinum R&B singer R. Kelly will be sentenced on Wednesday for exploiting his stardom and wealth over decades to lure women and underage girls into his orbit for sex.
Ghislaine Maxwell will learn her fate Tuesday when a US judge sentences the former socialite for helping late disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse girls.
Former Nazi camp guard, 101, gets five-year jail sentence
A young employee at a Subway restaurant in Atlanta died, while another received critical injuries.
A woman and her six-year-old daughter were allegedly gangraped in a moving car in the Indian state of Uttarakhand.
A 31-year-old woman, Azuradee France, has been charged with murder after police discovered the body of her blind three-year-old son stuffed inside a freezer.
A UK couple kept as many as 42 people as their "slaves" at their three-bedroom home in Bristol and forced them to do nearly £1 million worth of work for free
A stillborn baby's head was left inside its mother's womb after a botched surgery at a rural health centre (RHC) in Pakistan's Sindh province last week.
An independent review of reports of sexual exploitation in Oldham has revealed that the police and other concerned agencies failed to do their job
A newborn baby with his umbilical cord still attached to him was found in a wheelie bin on Grimsby's Nunsthorpe estate on Sunday.
An elderly British man has been arrested by police in Santorini, Greece for clicking pictures of young children at a beach on the island.
A 75-year-old man who hails from Ashington, England, allegedly smothered his terminally wife to death while he was high on drugs and cocktails.