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Connecticut couple claim they were unaware they were related before beginning sexual relationship.

Actress donates signed designer heels to help raise funds to carry on the search for schoolgirl April Jones, who went missing from Welsh home seven weeks ago.

The 20-year-old studen taken into custody after confessing to his therapist that he plotted to kill the US leader and murder trick-or-treating children.

IBTimes UK reveals convicted fraudster had HSBC Jersey account and was given £20m overdraft facility.

Brazil's attorney general orders 'urgent investigation' into auction and documentary set up by filmmaker Justin Sisely.

Home secretary stops extradition over fears it would impeach hacker's human rights and put him at risk of suicide.

Cell so small Paolo Gabriele could not even spread his arms, he tells trial into theft of confidential papal documents.

Terrified student sexually assaulted by home invader after he robbed her in London flat

Adam Barker, was went on the run in 2004 while being investigated for child porn offences

Studio pulls French premiere following slaughter of 12 Batman fans at midnight screening in Aurora.

Glennroy Blair-Ford broke neck in welly-wanging accident on school trip to Dartmoor adventure centre.

Tarzan 2 video demands release of Learco Chindamo, who stabbed his headteacher Philip Lawrence to death in 1995

Ranchers in Brazil have burned bridges, blocked roads and threatened the Indian tribes in protest against their impending eviction from tribal land.

Police images of battered Rihanna published on entertainments website TMZ will not lead to criminal charges after three-year investigation.

A tourist resort run by Barefoot India in the Andaman Islands has been dealt a fatal blow, after India's government banned tourism businesses from operating in a buffer zone around the Jarawa tribal reserve.

Norwegian mass killer could be placed in mental institution, as prosecutors do not want to see him imprisoned.

Australian tourist named Hollie has filed a police report for injuries during club brawl and bottle fight.

Soda crackdown is part of health campaign to cut sugar intake of New Yorkers, argues outspoken mayor.

Right-wing extremist Anders Behring Breivik will have hired friends in jail after being considered too dangerous to mix with other prisoners.

Titus Bramble cleared of two counts of sexual assault after two women claimed he had been 'touchy-feely' following night out in Teesside.

Former government drugs adviser claims that many banned substances, such as recreational drugs, are less harmful than alcohol and should be decriminalised.

Essex man reduced to tears, before exploding with rage at jury who found him guilty of attempted murder.

Collection by London gangsters' friend Laurie O'Leary up for sale by Hertfordshire auctioneers.

Jacqueline Woodhouse who was exposed in a viral YouTube video which showed her racially abusing Asian commuters on London Underground has been jailed for 21 weeks.

Parents, Mike and Mairead Philpott, named as the two people who have been arrested on suspicion of murder of their six children.

Children's board reports conclude that murder of teenage mother, stabbed by boyfriend in Rotherham, could not have been prevented.

Two people have been arrested in connection with the arson that caused a Derby house fire which killed six children from the Philpott family.

Cyclists and joggers make gruesome discovery in underpass 'not used at night'.

A 21-year-old Chichester woman has died following a head-on collision after becoming confused about the directions from her sat nav.