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Roy Aspinall recognised his long-lost brother sleeping rough in a Wigan churchyard and informed him they were related.

'Tis the season to be safe- a police station are putting out wanted advent adverts in the run up to Christmas. Social media absolutely loved it.

Bradley Wood gets life for killing friend Lee Hatley and stabbing his girlfriend as she slept in north London.

Police in Berlin, Germany have evacuated a Christmas market and are investigating a suspicious object.

Five ways to easily help a rough sleeper on the cold streets this winter, with tips from St Mungo's, Crisis and Shelter. Donating and volunteering are two easy ways to help.

Italian police arrested a priest working in the parish of the village of Sant'Agata who, for at least three years, is alleged to have raped several children under the age of 14.

Pope Francis met a group of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh and pronounced the word he had so assiduously avoided only days earlier in Myanmar.

Michael Flynn, who unceremoniously resigned from the administration in February, was charged with one count of making false statements to the FBI in January.

A Wolverhampton judge has stripped two parents of their three kids after it was revealed the mother and father were in an open relationship.

It emerged that an order had been placed by a senior official in Pyongyang, the capital of North Korea.

New York model Desiree Gibbon has been found dead on the side of the road with her throat slashed in Jamaica.

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.

Home Office reveals just 838 asylum claims where sexual orientation was given as reason accepted, with more than 2,300 turned away.

A transgender teenage boy, Jay Ferguson, who owned a 'psycho kit' and threatened to rape young girls, has been jailed.

AFP photographer Ed Jones captures the harsh realities of life in the poverty-stricken rural villages along North Korea's eastern coast.

20% of office workers would hook up with someone at their office Christmas party. But 1 in 10 admit they caught an STI from a coworker or know someone who has.

Former Asda worker Mark Morris, who murdered Emma Day, the mother of their six-year-old daughter, because he didn't want to pay £24-a-week child support has been jailed for life.

A French woman was charged by police Thursday (30 November) after confessing to secretly killing five of her babies, bringing a 14-year-old cold case to a chilling end.

A Turkish Airlines flight from Nairobi to Istanbul had to be diverted for an emergency landing after a Wi-Fi network called 'Bomb on board' alarmed passengers.

Prisoners at Elgin-Middlesex Detention Centre witnessed and heard the murder of fellow inmate Adam Kargus in October 2013.

Yao was considered the "kingpin" of a gang of 225 grave-robbing suspects rounded up by authorities in 2015.

Army dogs Kevin and Dazz, and police dog Driver, are set to be put down by lethal injection after reports they have been deemed unsuitable for rehoming.

The Codex Amiatinus was a Bible created by monks in Northumbria back in 716, after which it was gifted to Pope Gregory II.

Mother and great uncle arrested after Hakeem Hussain found dead after going into cardiac arrest in Nechells.

Muslims around the world are celebrating the birth of the prophet Muhammad, which occurs on the 12th day of Rabi' al-awwal, the third month in the Islamic calendar.

Bjorn Samstrom was found guilty of forcing teenagers from the US, Canada and Britain to perform sexual acts in front of webcams.

The frigate's former captain and naval engineer Horacio Tobías believes hydrogen poisoning may have led to the deaths of the sailors.

The verdict has upset several people in the US, including US President Donald Trump, who called it "disgraceful".

A preliminary test was conducted of the substance and an investigation is ongoing to discover how the poison was smuggled into the court.