CRIME

Andy Sami Star, 31, and Farhad Salah, 22, both of Iraqi origin, were arrested on 19 December in Yorkshire. They are alleged to have been in possession of a 'low explosive black powder'.

Lawrence McKinney was wrongfully convicted in 1978 and only released in 2009. A recent exoneration from the Tennessee Governor means he can finally ask for compensation.

A court in Germany has ruled that Oskar Gröning, a former SS guard at Auschwitz must serve out his four-year prison sentence.

Jonathan Nash was reportedly handed a 37-year sentence in what his supporters say is "beyond all norms".

Police in Houston, Texas, say Kenneth Wayne Lockings Jr. murdered his girlfriend Aracely Jernigan by nearly decapitating her with a samurai sword.

A manhunt has been launched in Rotherham for a suspected serial sex attacker who is alleged to have carried out three assaults on Boxing Day.

A New Jersey doctor allegedly reused single-use anorectal catheters on patients while waiting for an order to be filled, potentially putting them at risk of disease.

Two people were attacked with corrosive substances within a half-mile radius of Canary Wharf in east London on Wednesday evening (27 December), police have said.

Gizar Ziyangareev beat Anna Barmina and attacked her with a knife, before dragging her into the woods to rape her with the branch of a tree in the western city of Ufa in September 2015, where all his crimes occurred.

The incident happened in India's capital city of Delhi when the girls were playing outside their home.

Northumbria Police have charged Mark Smith, 41, with the murder of Jillian Grant whose body was found in a North Shields house on Christmas day.

Lndy Lou Layman is facing a criminal mischief charge after she allegedly tore down paintings and smashed sculptures when her date with Anthony Buzbee went off the rails.

A teenager, Simon Evans, convicted of beating a rough-sleeper to death when he was 14 was denied a jail term cut by a High Court judge.

Georgia authorities are searching for an inmate who made a daring escape from jail Wednesday by using a metal rod to break through the walls of his cell.

Natasha Claus, 36, of no fixed abode, has been jailed for 13 months and banned from Woking town centre after arriving at Guildford Crown Court four hours late.

Iuliana Tudos, 22, was found dead in Finsbury Park, north London, and police have launched a murder inquiry. She is thought to have been attacked on Christmas Eve.

Florida deputies said that a man turned up at his ex-girlfriend's house in the early hours of the morning before viciously assaulting her new boyfriend.

Police in the Iranian capital of Tehran have said that women will no longer be arrested if they are in breach of the country's conservative dress code regulations.

Four people found dead on Boxing Day in a New York basement apartment have now been identified and thought to have been victims of what police are describing as a quadruple homicide,

21-year-old Sophie Smith was believed to have left her home at 3am wearing a dark vest top and light shorts. She hasn't been seen since.

DNA tests confirmed Domingo Bulacio was the father of the children born by his victim, named locally as Antonia. The eight children were fathered over a 22-year-period.

A 36-year-old woman has been left with life-changing burns to her leg and face after being victim to an acid attack in Canary Wharf, east London.

Apple admitted that an update in 2016, the iPhone 6, iPhone 6s, iPhone SE and iPhone 7 included a feature which slowed down parts of the phone in order to lengthen battery life.

A murder investigation has been launched after the body of a young woman was found in a north London park.

A Muslim man from Durham has claimed that that he was beaten up after wishing someone a merry Christmas.

A unnamed man died after being found on fire in the middle of a residential Hull street last night.

Naked Tennessee man, Danny Hollis Jr., was arrested after he terrorised a family on Christmas Day and cut his own throat while high on an offshoot of the drug crystal meth.

Robert Anthony Resendiz confessed to bending his son because he would not stop crying, and also claimed he bit the infant twice out of frustration.

An employee at a Pennsylvania hospital who underwent a hernia operation discovered that photos of her were being shown around.