In a shocking incident, the body of a paratrooper who died in police detention over a decade ago has been found in a mortuary. What that means is that his family buried the wrong body.
Names of some of the seven people killed in the huge M5 traffic accident near Taunton on Nov. 4 are starting to emerge.
Caroline Meeking, from lllminster in Somerset, who is accused of killing her husband by pulling their car's handbrake at 60mph, told the jury in the ongoing manslaughter trial that he had called her "a satnav with no batteries."
The Avon and Somerset police said the operation to forensically lift the vehicles involved in Friday's crash on M5 motorway was completed Sunday morning.
A man has been sentenced to 30 months imprisonment by the Nottingham Crown Court in a murder case.
In one of the worst road-collisions in history of the UK, around 27 vehicles have crashed on the M5 motorway near Taunton, Somerset, claiming several lives and leaving around 35 people hurt, the police said on Friday.
The victim of a shooting at a funeral in south London on has been named as 21-year-old Azezur "Ronnie" Khan.
Israeli naval forces have boarded two boats carrying humanitarian aid to Palestinian citizens living in the Gaza strip.
Travellers evicted from Dale Farm in Essex are threatening to return once the site has been cleared, say the lawyers for the local authority that removed them.
A member of the online activist movement Anonymous who was kidnapped last month in Mexico by a ruthless drug cartel has been released, a spokesman for the organisation said.
Malaysian authorities have banned a controversial guide to Islamic sex published by the notorious Obedient Wives Club, the Wall Street Journal reports.
Jamie Pyatt, district editor of the tabloid, has been arrested in connection with the Metropolitan Poilce's investigation into corrupt payments to police officers.
Human rights groups have accused doctors of failing to document signs of torture in Palestinian detainees, reports the Guardian.
23-year-old Dimitri Bogotich, who has been sentenced to 69 months in prison for leading a violent racist group, said he joined the group while serving as a soldier in the Israel Defence Forces.
Life for All, a Lahore-based activist group, has published case studies of all those accused under the blasphemy law in Pakistan's Punjab province.
The three Pakistan cricketers and a sports agent convicted of plotting to bowl purposeful no-balls during the Lord's Test against England in the summer of 2010 as part of a wider betting scam, were all handed custodial sentences at Southwark Crown Court on Thursday morning.
In a major crackdown, the Metropolitan police seized cocaine worth more than £2.5 million during a raid in Tooting, South London, Wednesday.
The City of London has temporarily abandoned legal action against the Occupy London protest following St Paul’s decision to pull back from the brink of a legal battle.
A Polish gang which trafficked more than 200 people to the UK as part of a multi-million pound benefit fraud has been busted following a joint investigation by the Metropolitan Police, Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HMRC) and the Polish police.
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has lost his High Court bid to block extradition to Sweden where he will face sex crime allegations.
A teenage girl was allegedly raped by a man dressed in black and wearing a mask made famous by the Hollywood horror film franchise "Scream" in Londonderry.
a bride was drugged and held captive by her own family after she called her engagement off with her cousin and married another man, a court heard yesterday.
Young Egyptian blogger Maikel Nabil, currently in to his third month of hunger strike to protest against the Egyptian justice system, has had his retrial postponed yet again.
The City of London has joined St Paul’s in suspending its legal procedures against the Occupy London protest outside the cathedral.
Vincent Tabak, who was convicted of the murder of Joanna Yeates on October 28, kept pictures of child pornography on his laptop, police have revealed.
In a shocking revelation the large majorities of interviewed migrant workers in the UK sex industry are not forced nor trafficked, suggest a report.
A man has been brought to justice following a 13-year murder investigation by the Metropolitan Police.
A man has been convicted of killing his elderly father and a 29-year-old man in an arson attack on a maisonette in Tower Hamlets.
Gruesome images have emerged of the public beheading in a car park of a Sudanese man in Saudi Arabia accused of 'sorcery' and 'witchcraft'.
A man has been jailed for six months after police found over a kilogram of cannabis at his Tipton home.
