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The series of air raids were targeted at Abu Kamal and Mayadin neighbourhoods in eastern Syria, the Russian defence ministry said.

The woman claimed that the local police station failed to register her complaint, prompting her to produce the piece of evidence.

The murders allegedly by the maternal uncles of the woman are seen as honour killings.

The incident took place while the 30-year-old victim was returning home with her husband and child following a visit to a doctor.

57-year-old Indian-born doctor Achutha Reddy was killed on 13 September near his clinic in Kansas.

Multiple braid-chopping incidents reported in northern India in the past few months have created mass hysteria among people.

The medical examiner's office said toxicology tests found alcohol, caffeine and an epilepsy/migraine medication in Kenneka Jenkins' system.

Desiree Murugan, an Indian-born woman living near Durban, was stabbed 192 times and beheaded on instructions of the traditional healer.

Convicted sex offender Christopher Drummond ordered his brother Alexander Stewart to rape the girl in Ross-shire, Scotland, the High Court in Edinburgh heard.

The groom shared a video montage which cut to footage of his fiance going into a hotel room with another man, weeks before their wedding,

Vincenzo Tavano, 33, killed restaurant manager Giorgio Roncari, 60, by placing a plastic bag over his head when he was refused drugs in his apartment in Salford, Greater Manchester

The suspect was reportedly heard shouting 'Allahu Akbar' as he ranted at passengers on a train in Brussels.

Heavy-drinking James Stewart defrauded Sawtry Village Academy out of £100,000 to fund his betting habit and had specially-built 'sex dungeon' in his school office.

Jamie Harron, 27, from Stirling was arrested for indecency after he walked through the Rock Bottom bar in Dubai and touched a man's hip to avoid spilling his drink.

An easyJet spokesperson said ground equipment caught fire as the flight from Belfast landed at John Lennon airport this evening.

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.