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The fate of 18-month-old Teddy, the Tibetan mastiff, remains uncertain after he attacked three people in Edinburgh.

A 19-year-old victim of paedophile priest choked the abuser to death with a crucifix.

Japan hanged the first foreigner in 10 years for the murder of a clothing dealer and his family during a robbery attempt.

A Michigan boy went missing on Christmas Day. He was later found deceased under the ice in a nearby pond.

A cancer patient was unable to fulfill her last wish of spending Christmas with her family as her General Physician prescribed painkillers instead of recommending scans to diagnose cancer relapse.

As part of the British Airways Magic campaign, the company flew a cancer survivor and her family to attend her uncle's wedding in Australia.

Howletts Wild Animal Park boss, Damian Aspinall, calls zoos "barbaric" and implores parents to not take children to see animals held captive in them.

Surfer miraculously survives a great white shark attack and will be spending Christmas at home with family.

In a bizarre crime, a man robbed a bank in Colorado Springs, threw away all the money while shouting "Merry Christmas" and waited to be arrested.

Parents of missing Madeleine McCann shared their Christmas message of not giving up their search for their lost child.

While trying to save drowning nine-year-old, her father and brother drowned in the Club La Costa World pool as well.

As part of a prisoner rehabilitation programme more than 1000 criminals, including murderers, rapists, and drug-dealers, are set to go home for a six-day Christmas break from prison.

EasyJet cabin crew has been instructed to greet passengers in a gender-neutral way after receiving a complaint from a passenger.

A family from Cornwall was robbed of their beloved pet by a hooded thug days before Christmas.

A Jet2 passenger threatened to kill everyone by opening the aircraft door mid-flight.

Chester Grosvenor received negative social media attention by refusing to lend their defibrillator to save an elderly man who had suffered a heart attack outside the hotel.

A teenage boy who went missing in 2017 was discovered in a suspected paedophile's cupboard.

Winchester Crown Court gave the life sentence to a man who kicked and stomped on his estranged wife until she died.

Peter Chilvers has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for physically and mentally tormenting his partner until she had a breakdown.

During the sentencing of a driver who mowed down four children, killing three, the mother attacked the diver and ended up getting arrested.

Police have arrested two men after a woman was found with her throat slashed in her home.

After fracturing her foot, the woman was forced to wait more than six hours on the cold pavement for an ambulance; she died of a heart attack after being taken to the hospital.

A study conducted by the University of Birmingham found that UN peacekeepers patronised child prostitution in Haiti and fathered hundreds of children in the disaster-stricken nation.

The doctor misdiagnosed children with cancer to make parents pay for private treatment.

Whirlpool has announced the recall of over half a million faulty washing machines which pose a fire hazard

Whirlpool has announced the recall of over half a million faulty washing machines which pose a fire hazard

A Kilmarnock man with multiple previous convictions attacked his partner, nearly blinding her, and set his flat on fire.

Whirlpool has announced the recall of over half a million faulty washing machines which pose a fire hazard

An inebriated man had to be taped to a business class seat when he started to harass cabin crew and tried to enter the cockpit during a domestic flight in Russia.