LAW & SOCIETY

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.

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'.

Monday marks the end of NATO's involvement in Libya and one of the "most successful" operations in the history of the alliance. The IBTimes takes a look at the event s over the last 7 months that have led to the country's liberation.

The man convicted of Jo Yeates murder, Vincent Tabak, enjoyed watching pornographic videos of men holding women’s throats as they sex with them.

Police in Cannes have arrested four men on suspicion of swindling casinos out of hundreds of thousands of Euros as part of an organised gang.

Raj Rajaratnam, a self-made hedge fund tycoon convicted in the biggest Wall Street trading scandal in a generation, was sentenced to 11 years in prison on Thursday.

Paris prosecutors have dropped charges of attempted rape brought against former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Khan by French journalist Tristane Banon.

The FBI arrested a computer hacker Wednesday for allegedly infiltrating the emails of Hollywood stars, including Scarlett Johansson.

Berlusconi has asked parliament for a confidence vote that will allow him to continue leading the centre-right coalition amid concerns for his political future.

Unconfirmed reports that one of Col Muammar Gaddafi's sons has been captured in Sirte have caused confusion after a Libyan spokesman said that there was no information that Mutassim Gaddafi had been seized.

A post office worker yesterday has been sentenced to 100 hours community service and ordered to pay £500 costs for trying to get a police officer to carry out an unauthorised police check on her future son in law.

In a press conference on Wednesday Egyptian military leaders delivered their official version of Sunday's events, which has been widely discredited by journalist, witnesses and activists at the scene.

Judges have condemned government rules to withhold visas for under 21s as a breach of the European Convention on Human Rights.

Southwark Crown Court on Monday sentenced a man and woman 10 and 2 and a half years of jail term respectively.

In what is being described as an important crackdown, officials of the Middlemarket Drugs Partnership and the UK Border Agency have intercepted and seized two kilograms of heroin, at London's Heathrow Airport. The heroin, which has an estimated street value of £80,000, was reportedly found hidden inside in a consignment of vegetables - a variety of East Asian radish.

Despite international recognition, Italy continues to bury its head in the sand when it comes to tackling the Mafiosi who, it is said, run the country from behind the scenes.

Captial Shopping Centres has amended its 'No Photography' policy after an incident in Scotland on Firday.

Justice may still come to bear for the former 'King of Kings' .

A couple who allegedly swapped their twin babies to hide fatal injuries was sentenced to five years jail term yesterday.

In an attempt to seek revenge, a chef made a hoax call alleging that his estranged wife was carrying a bomb and was about to board a flight.

Shocking news of how a father was questioned by police in Scotland after taking a photograph of his 4-year-old daughter eating ice-cream has spawned a Facebook page with over 8,200 members.

The London Metropolitan Police (MPS) seized a large quantity of Cathinone Derivative (also called the "Meow Meow" drug) at Wembley on Saturday, during a random car search.

Simon McClure, 38, has been sentenced to spend two years and six months in prison, for deliberately infecting his ex-lover with the HIV virus.

The Metropolitan Police have released an image of a man they suspect of having committed two assaults, in Newham, during the London riots in August, 2011.