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UK police are investigating how British woman Laura Plummer, who has been jailed in Egypt, obtained the powerful painkiller Tramadol.

Reports from France say up to 5 men stormed the 5-star Ritz-Carlton hotel at around 6.30pm, smashing windows before making off with jewellery worth up to £3.5m.

A woman in Massachusetts has been accused of stealing a safe from her deceased mother's home while other members of the family were attending the funeral.

Tory Gentry, from Snellville, near Atlanta, Georgia, faces charges of aggravated battery and first-degree cruelty to children after his child was found with large burn on his side.

James Truscott and Maximum Martin had both consumed fentanyl, the super-strength synthetic opioid fentanyl which killed Prince. Joshua Lambert-Price is yet to have an inquest

The train was travelling to the Epcot Center at Walt Disney World. The incident was captured on video.

Police released CCTV images of two teens they are seeking in relation to the assault and murder of a shopkeeper in Mill Hill on Saturday, 6 January.

Police have released horrifying footage of the fatal shooting of a homeless man on the streets of Los Angeles.

Despite high-profile adoptions by likes of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, system can be easily infiltrated by child traffickers, warn rights groups.

Greater Manchester Police rushed to St Joseph's Church on Gorton Road after devil mask-wearing subjects robbed a priest and the charity box.

Suspect stole armoured personnel carrier from military training school in Murmansk and drove it erratically around streets of Apatity.

The West Coast trains move has been decried as an attack on free speech by the Daily Mail and its political allies.

David Davies said he was just 'venting frustration' at rail service when he sent angry and threatening emails to train network.

The Myanmar military has admitted killing 10 Rohingya people whose bodies were found in a mass grave in Inn Dinn village.

India's captain was dismissed for just five runs in the first innings of the Test against South Africa on Friday.

Easing of drug-trafficking laws by Iranian judiciary hailed as important step in halting executions worldwide.

A pregnant woman raped and sexually assaulted at knifepoint left one of her attackers "severely injured" after biting his penis during the attack in front of her five-year-old son.

Students at a primary school near Wolverhampton have been separated on the playground under a new "no pay, no play" scheme.

Australian cyclist thrown from bike after collision with car slammed by social media users as being melodramatic.

Acid attacks in London rose significantly in London last year according to data revealed by the Metropolitan Police.

The Army must recruit soldiers who know 'bringing death and destruction to the enemy' are its core principles said James Wharton, who served in Iraq.

Graphic video of suspect bursting into flames during confrontation on the street with Paris police goes viral.

New technology means that the case which has been unsolved for 23 years has finally reached a conclusion.

Italian and German police swoop on 'Ndrangheta mobsters in biggest crackdown on organised crime in two decades.

Metropolitan Police hunt two armed robbers blamed for string of robberies on shops and banks in capital.

Perceptions around those who use drugs must change, say former heads of state in Global Commission on Drug Policy report.

Peter McGlade fled North Sea Camp on Sunday evening by jumping over the wall but was arrested on Tuesday.

Miss Trans America founder Christa Leigh Steele-Knudslien stabbed and beaten to death with hammer by husband Mark Steele-Knudslien who 'snapped' in Massachusetts.

Paranormal experts Tony Ferguson and his wife Bev visited the historic Bodmin Jail in Cornwall, which is when they noticed something "real haunting" in the corridors.