Stalker Ashley Boyd from Moodiesburn, Lanarkshire, has been jailed for 11 months after gaining access to Kevin O'Connor Facebook and trying to convince a friend to take the blame.
Craig Sutherland and Verinder "Vinnie" Rajput had been friends for over a decade when they fell out at a St Albans flat. Sutherland grabbed a kitchen knife and flew into a frenzy.
The boy was approached and then followed by the man, who disappeared by the time he reached his home.
Anthony Michael Sanders was charged with capital murder for allegedly suffocating the two-year-old girl.
Alice McBrearty was passionately in love with pupil and had sex with him on multiple occasions. She has been jailed for 16 months at Snaresbrook Crown Court.
Police investigating the murder of seven-year-old Nikki Allan have urged family, friends and neighbours to provide their DNA.
Chuseok, Korea's harvest festival, is taking place - and millions of people are leaving the cities to visit their ancestral homes. But for North Korean refugees this is impossible.
Chad Greatbatch jailed for 30 years after shooting victim through chest in suspected Birmingham drug gang dispute.
Burglar Stuart Campbell jailed for eight years after he broke into numerous houses in Waterlooville, Hampshire, while wearing a GPS tracker.
Man who played part of Peter Beale as a child for six years handed suspended sentence for inciting sexual activity with child charges.
Insys Therapeutics have been accused of pushing Subsys, a fentanyl-based pain reliever, at patients who did not need it by the State of New Jersey.
The gondolier was unhappy that the tourists spent the whole time glued to their phones rather than taking in the surroundings.
Is this the end for the independent film pioneer whose editing-room meddling earned him the nickname "Harvey Scissorhands" and whose unprecedented run of Oscar glory made him a Hollywood deity?
China refuses to recognise North Korean woman as refugees, leaving many to be sold as wives where they must work in the fields and be violated regularly.
A leopard that halted production at the plant near New Delhi was tranquilised by wildlife rescuers after causing havoc for 36 hours.
Thousands of football fans from across the UK are expected to take part in the Football Lads Alliance march through London on Saturday.
Zameer Ghumra, 38, was jailed for six years for disseminating terrorist propaganda in the form of a graphic Twitter video on his mobile phone.
The week's best photojournalism, from Las Vegas mass shooting and Catalonia independence referendum to Theresa May's Conservative Party Conference speech and a jaguar catching an anaconda.
A route operated between Scotland's Orkney Islands clocks in at just 80 seconds, which is the shortest scheduled passenger flight in the world.
Daniel Ball, 21, stepped in to calm down Jack, who has autism, after he began shouting and hitting his mother and sister.
Police and RSPCA launch appeal to reunite 11 cats with their owners after they were removed from a house in Trafford.
Initial reports suggested the bus ignored a red signal at a railway crossing in Vladimir region and stalled while moving through the tracks.
Good Girls offers customers the chance to party with sex workers at beautiful South American locations. Their latest offer is an island tour for 30 guests and 60 girls.
Committee said the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons won the award for its "groundbreaking efforts to achieve a treaty prohibition."
The accused, Nitin Pathare, 36, was also charged with attempt to murder after he threatened to kill the mother and her five-year-old daughter.
Figures released by Halifax show prices grew 4% year-on-year in the quarter to September on the back of a shortage of properties.
Saudi Arabia's King Salman's historic visit to Moscow gets off to shaky start when he finds himself stuck up gold escalator as he leaves the plane.
Barrett has pleaded guilty to taking or detaining a person with the intent to obtain advantage and three counts of committing an act of indecency with a person above 16.
US president reportedly about to decertify historic deal with Iran which saw them curb their nuclear programme to lift sanctions.
Erik Castillo had bought the teen from her father in Mexico and had asked him to send her over to the US to live with him.