Crime

District Judge Zoe Passfield said one examination of the willow tree by the council team lasted only one minute.

A man who allegedly tried to rob people at a Mexican restaurant in Houston using a fake gun got shot and killed after a customer opened fire at him.

A 6-year-old boy shot and wounded his teacher at Richneck Elementary School in Virginia.

A 41-year-old Indian-origin man drove his Tesla off a cliff with his two children and wife still inside the car in California, US.

A 20-year-old woman was dragged for almost 12 kilometres under a car by five drunk men in the early hours of New Year's Day.

Three white men have been arrested in connection with the assault of two Black teenagers at a resort pool in South Africa.

The authorities at a Mexican airport found four human skulls inside a package that was being shipped to the United States.

A 23-year-old woman has been accused of kicking her baby across the floor after she was caught shoplifting at a Walmart store in New Jersey, US.

A woman from the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh has been arrested for allegedly holding her domestic help hostage for nearly two months.

Alexandra Eckersley, the adopted daughter of former Major League Baseball player Dennis Eckersley, left her newborn baby out freezing in the cold.

The collision happened at Sheil Road in Kensington.

A woman from the US did not hesitate to attack her husband at the South Carolina airport.

Eight teenage girls have been charged with the second-degree murder of a homeless man in downtown Toronto early Sunday morning.

The victim is assumed to have been struck by a freight train several months or years before their remains were even discovered.

The boy died on the scene and Red Cross paramedics could do nothing but confirm the boy's untimely death.

A taxi driver from Kingstanding, Birmingham, has been forced to sleep in his car despite having a house in the area due to racially motivated attacks.

In a horrific incident reported from India's capital New Delhi, two bike-borne assailants threw acid on a 17-year-old girl while she was on her way to school.

Argentinian police have launched a manhunt for three women after a 60-year-old man was found dead and tied to his bed.

A 39-year-old woman from California, US, has been accused of killing her former stepfather after she found a nude photo of her on his computer.

A "sadistic" man has been convicted of murdering his colleague at his parents' house in Leicestershire, UK, last year.

A 23-year-old man was executed in a public hanging carried out in the city of Mashhad, Iran.

Jonathan Sherman, the son of a Canadian billionaire couple, has tripled the cash reward for information about his parents' killers.

A woman who went missing last week was found dead in a barrel in the boot of a car on Monday morning in Guatemala City.

In a horrific incident reported from the Indian state of Jharkhand, a 20-year-old man beheaded his 24-year-old cousin over a long-standing land dispute.

A teenage rape survivor in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh set herself ablaze after being harassed by her rapists.

A former priest has pleaded guilty to charge of obscenity after he was caught filming a threesome at his church in Pearl River.

In a shocking case of suspected honour killing, a 21-year-old girl was shot dead by her father at their house in India's capital, New Delhi.

Australian police have managed to identify a serial rapist after almost 40 years.

Khan was killed while visiting his relatives.

The ultraconservative Sunni kingdom of Saudi Arabia executed 12 people in 10 days for drug offences, according to a human rights organisation.