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A parent held a 70-year-old teacher hostage for several hours at his daughter's Southern California elementary school. The teacher was unharmed.

A Texas couple is accused of beating and abusing their two daughters and forcing one of them to eat cat faeces.

Bex Bailey was told by a party official that if she reported the incident it would be "damaging to her career". Jeremy Corbyn said that he has called on Labour's general secretary, Iain McNicol, to launch an independent investigation into the allegations.

Sayfullo Saipov, 29, was shot in the abdomen after he rammed a pickup truck into cyclists and pedestrians on a bicycle path. New York Mayor Bill De Blasio said it was "a cowardly act if terror."

Paedophile pensioner Victor Pope was jailed for 18 months for inviting children to his home and giving them sweets, toys and money.

8 people are dead and more than a dozen injured after Sayfullo Saipov, 29, deliberately plowed a rented truck into a bicycle path striking pedestrians in lower Manhattan. The governor of New York Andrew Cuomo said the city was a target because it is an "international symbol of freedom and democracy".

Three men Craig Levy, 36, Ryan Smart, 37, and Jason Colton, 41 were charged with the murder of Ramis Jonuzi who paid $30 to stay at the East Brighton home.

Ryan Gibbons, 29, from Manchester, has been found guilty of murder after running over ex-Royal Navy officer Mike Samwell, 35, twice in the victim's Audi S3 sports car.

A 29-year-old suspect named as Sayfullo Saipov was shot and arrested at the scene after committing a 'cowardly act of terror', said New York Mayor Bill De Blasio.

Charissa Brown-Wellington was jailed for five years after admitting to pushing a stranger under a moving tram while she was drunk.

Geneva's transport bosses want residents to adopt a London-style approach to travelling on public transport.

Craig O'Sullivan jailed for life after murdering girlfriend Gemma Leeming then leaving body in bizarre state.

A lorry caught fire on the M1 motorway in Leicestershire this afternoon causing major disruption to traffic in both directions.

A recent court order to remove the cross about a statue of John Paul II has sparked a diplomatic row between France and Poland.

Informant told the CIA in 1955 that Adolf Hitler escaped the Second World War and fled to South America, where he lived with others Nazis in Tunja.

Ex-boyfriend of Towie star said during his trial that texts about 'acid' in his car referred to a hair-thickening shampoo.

The eighteenth century Scottish witch Lilias Adie died in jail, possibly via suicide, before she could be burned at the stake.

Opposition leader Raila Odinga has called for pickets and petitions after President Uhuru Kenyatta was declared the winner of the re-run election that was boycotted by Odinga.

The progression of Hitler's very personal brand of anti-Semitism tells us a lot about the politics that birthed the Nazi party.

One of the men who butchered fusilier Lee Rigby to death on the streets of London has been converting fellow prisoners to Islam, according to a judge.

Probe opened following a wiretapped conversation in which jailed mobster Giuseppe Graviano claimed the ex-premier suggested he carry out attacks against the state.

French authorities believe the case to be a family tragedy but have yet to work out why the incident took place.

Refugees and asylum seekers detained on Papua New Guinea's Manus Island have been ordered to leave as Australian immigration centre is scheduled to close.

A small fishing boat carrying up to 45 Rohingya Muslims fleeing Myanmar to Bangladesh capsized in the Bay of Bengal on Tuesday (31 October), leaving at least four dead.

Campaign group Pregnant Then Screwed organise rallies in several cities calling for 'recognition, respect and change' for working mums.

Hong Kong will host the Gay Games in 2022, becoming the first Asian city to stage the sports and cultural event, beating competition from Washington DC and Guadalajara.

Participants gave statistics about violence against women in the South American nation instead of revealing their bust, waist and hip measurements during a section of the event.

Simon Marshall has been jailed at York Crown Court and was said to have shown no remorse over his actions.

The annual event saw hundreds of children being handed sweets from the First Family, but one child was ignored.