Two members of the Spain's People Party's government allegedly helped the king's son-in-law Inaki Urdangarin in his fraud activities according to an on-going investigation which is threatening the royal family's popularity.
A major search and rescue mission is underway in the Scottish Cairngorms for five hill walkers who have not been seen since Wednesday.
A 10-year-old boy who was shot by his mother after she was refused food stamps in Texas died on Thursday, a day after his sister lost her life.
The gunman who shot a Virginia Tech police officer on Thursday then turned the same gun on himself, police have announced.
A prominent Zionist rabbi is facing trial in Jerusalem's Magistrate's Court on charges of forcible sexual assault.
Murders motivated by hostility to transgender people will result in longer sentences according to a new Home Office action plan.
A U.S. citizen has been sentenced to two and a half years in a Thai prison after translating a banned biography of the country's King online.
Prosecutors in Philadelphia announced Wednesday they had decided to stop efforts to execute Mumia Abu-Jamal, who has been on death row after being convicted of killing a police officer 30 years ago.
The head of a gangland prostitution ring, which forced women into selling their bodies, has been executed in China.
The principal of a school in North Carolina has been forced to retire after accusing a nine-year-old pupil of sexual harassment.
The 12-year old-daughter of Rachelle Grimmer, who was shot by her mother after she was refused food stamps, has died from her injuries.
Former Israeli President Moshe Katsav has accused his country of 'executing' him as he arrived at Maasiyahu prison near Tel Aviv on Tuesday to being a seven-year jail term for rape.
Ruben Arzu the naked, 21-stone body builder is being held at the West Valley Detention Center in Rancho Cucamonga, California with his bail set at $1million (£640,000).
The disgraced private investigator is thought to have been arrested by Scotland Yard in connection with phone hacking.
Polish, Romanian, Lithuanian and Latvian convicts are a growing prescence among the multi-national British prison population, figures from the Ministry of Justice reveal.
The daughter of the woman who shot her children then killed herself after being denied food stamps talked about her fear of dying via Facebook during the hostage negotiation.
As another person is arrested as part of Operation Weeting - Scotland Yard's probe into phone hacking - the tally rises to 16 in what has been a busy year for the investigating officers.
Fugitive Camorra crime boss Michele Zagaria has been captured by police forces in Naples, Italian newspaper reported.
Russian voters have posted videos appearing to show ballot boxes being stuffed, the falsification of ballots and invisible ink used in voting booths.
White supremacists are planning to send donations to Emma West the alleged racist in the 'My Tram Experience' YouTube video.
In a shocking incident, a woman was attacked by her boyfriend because he was "bored" of her.
Emma West the alleged racist in the ‘My Tram Experience’ YouTube video is set to spend Christmas in prison after magistrates decided it was for her own protection.
Emma West, the tram passenger who featured in the viral video “My Tram Experience” remanded in custody until the New Year after appearing at Croydon Magistrates’ Court harged with a racially aggravated public order offence.
The embattled preacher has stepped down following a string of damaging allegations of sexual abuse
Hollywood actress Hilary Swank has said she regrets her controversial decision to accept a six-figure sum to appear at the 35th birthday celebrations of Chechnya's autocratic dictator, Ramzan Kadyrov.
BlackBerry Messenger was to blame for the August riots which spread across the UK, according to research carried out by BBC Newsnight and the Guardian.
The current nude magazine controversy goes hand-in-hand with the new publicity shoots of the fourth season of television show "Swayamvar 4" featuring Veena Mailk in "Veena Ka Vivaah" (Veena Malik's marriage).
The blast, which happened at 7.30 GMT, occurred at the Abul Fazel shrine in the Murad Khani area of the capital, a BBC report has said.
A study by The Guardian and the London School of Economics has identified anger at police as a central cause of the August riots in England.
According to the police, the burglars killed the pet after they had ransacked the flat and found nothing worth to steal.