Ralph Shortey has since resigned from the Oklahoma senate and pleaded guilty to child sex trafficking – he faces between ten years and life in prison for his crime.
Newport IT worker James Howells was one of the earliest adopters of Bitcoin: he amassed 7,500 Bitcoins back in February 2009 when they were worth less than $1.
Some 192 suspected paedophiles were arrested in just one week during a UK-wide operation by the National Crime Agency (NCA), sometimes referred to as Britain's FBI.
Rosalie Avila's parents found her hanging in her bedroom. They say their daughter, who dreamed of becoming a lawyer, was driven to suicide by bullies at Mesa View Middle School.
The Japanese coast guard said it found the decomposed bodies of three men in Yamagata prefecture on 4 December, two days after a battered wooden fishing boat was recovered nearby.
Jermaine McDonald, 26, has been jailed for 13 years after the vicious attack on a pair, in their thirties, who were sat chatting in a Dulwich Park on the afternoon of 27 April.
Daniel Corneille, 47, will spend two years behind bars after he launched an attack on a traffic warden taking photos of his car on Sheerness High Street, Kent.
Christopher Elwell, 29, who sexually assaulted a four-year-old girl, had just been jailed for up to 15 years by a judge at Strafford County Superior Court, New Hampshire.
A pair of teenage boys killed two 12-year-old girls and a man by trapping them inside a cave along with a burning sofa after a dispute over four euros, a court heard.
Ex-culture minister Femi Fani-Kayode lamented the plight of Africans who arrive on the Mediterranean coast dreaming of a new life in Europe only to be forced into slavery.
Undefeated Khabib Nurmagomedov claimed police had tortured his friend Akim Kuliev, who was accused of setting fire to a government building in Dagestan, Russia, earlier this year.
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has responded to news of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's engagement, saying: "I'm sure they're going to have a great deal of fun together."
The gang, which is headed up by Manchester twins Marcus and Jamal Anderson, flooded the UK with the class A drug while secretly being monitored by GMP investigators.
