Foreign diplomats in the capital have racked up a total of £108.6m in unpaid congestion charge fines.
Jonathan Nash was reportedly handed a 37-year sentence in what his supporters say is "beyond all norms".
Police in Houston, Texas, say Kenneth Wayne Lockings Jr. murdered his girlfriend Aracely Jernigan by nearly decapitating her with a samurai sword.
A manhunt has been launched in Rotherham for a suspected serial sex attacker who is alleged to have carried out three assaults on Boxing Day.
A New Jersey doctor allegedly reused single-use anorectal catheters on patients while waiting for an order to be filled, potentially putting them at risk of disease.
A photo depicting three young Moroccan migrants getting some rest in washing machines at a Paris launderette has attracted attention online.
The Church of Sweden is urging its clergy to avoid using the masculine words "Lord" and "He" when referring to God in some prayers in a bid to become more gender neutral.
The Arrels Foundation in Barcelona is fighting to end homelessness and has released an innovative series of images featuring people who have lived on the streets.
Iraqi courts are sending alleged Islamic State fighters to death in rapid-fire trials lasting less than 20 minutes, according to reports.
Two people were attacked with corrosive substances within a half-mile radius of Canary Wharf in east London on Wednesday evening (27 December), police have said.
Gizar Ziyangareev beat Anna Barmina and attacked her with a knife, before dragging her into the woods to rape her with the branch of a tree in the western city of Ufa in September 2015, where all his crimes occurred.
Drunk tanks could be rolled out across the UK as the head of the NHS warned that the country's primary health body does not stand for the "National Hangover Service".
Measuring almost half a metre and weighing only 0.79lbs, the Pacific spadenose shark was caught by fishermen in the southern Taiwan Strait in January this year.
Photographs show the extent of the fire at 1 Above Rooftop, with the entire Kamala Mills complex reduced to a blackened shell of twisted wreckage.
British plasterer Gregory Tomkins live-streamed his own suicide on Christmas Day on the "Apple Inc Insults" chat room where people go to insult one another.
The US Navy will reportedly continue to provide technical support from the US, even after search operations have been shuttered.
Walter Macfarlane and Alan Robinson, who recently found that they are brothers, had first met each other in sixth grade and had even joked about marrying the same girl.
China reportedly conducted the first-ever flight test of a new kind of ballistic missile, which can deliver both nuclear and conventional payloads.
At least 14 people, mostly women, were killed and several others injured when fire broke out at a restaurant in central Mumbai's Lower Parel locality.
The incident happened in India's capital city of Delhi when the girls were playing outside their home.
Leah Rose Altmann, a 27-year-old aspiring musician has been missing since she was last spotted in the North Hollywood neighbourhood of LA in September.
The owner of the store Issamar Sepulveda said that the woman, a regular customer, was getting soda when she suddenly started screaming.
At least 12 people are dead including an infant when a massive fire broke out at an Bronx apartment in New York.
Up to 800 passengers have been stranded at Gatwick Airport after Nigerian airline Med-View cancelled flights to Lagos.
A North Korean nuclear scientist who defected to China in November committed suicide after he was sent back
Northumbria Police have charged Mark Smith, 41, with the murder of Jillian Grant whose body was found in a North Shields house on Christmas day.
Lndy Lou Layman is facing a criminal mischief charge after she allegedly tore down paintings and smashed sculptures when her date with Anthony Buzbee went off the rails.
A teenager, Simon Evans, convicted of beating a rough-sleeper to death when he was 14 was denied a jail term cut by a High Court judge.
The baby boy's head remained inside his mother, Reina Natalia Valazquez, and was later delivered naturally along at a hospital in Tartagal, northwest Argentina.
Georgia authorities are searching for an inmate who made a daring escape from jail Wednesday by using a metal rod to break through the walls of his cell.
