Police have arrested a man in connection with two burglaries during which women were sexually assaulted as they slept.

A man is in hospital after attackers sprayed acid in his face.

Former belly dancer Karima El Mahroug says allegations against her and 76-year-old former premier are untrue

A New York appeals court has revived a lawsuit by the former wife of Steven Cohen, the founder of the hedge fund SAC Capital Advisors, who accused the billionaire of hiding $5.5m (£3.6m) from her during proceedings that led to their 1990 divorce.

Police in Virginia have charged a woman with arson as part of an investigation into a spate of suspicious fires that have ravaged a remote corner of the US state in recent months.

CCTV pictures released by police

The South African military says five air force members have died in the crash of a helicopter that was patrolling as part of an anti-rhino poaching operation.

The strange tale of a man with demons

Spiralling numbers seek help for addiction as internet poker blamed for endangering families

A literary shotgun blast to the face

Scotland Yard reported this week that one crook who posed as a courier from a bank managed to trick unsuspecting Londoners into handing him £244,500 of their cash.

Craig Zobel's drama, allegedly "inspired by true events", is a banal nightmare about coercion and gullibility.

Two men have been charged in connection with the shooting of a British couple on holiday in Barbados, local police said.

Investigators have dropped an inquiry  into the death in jail of Sergei Magnitsky, stating that the whistleblowing lawyer’s agonising death, which became an international scandal, was not the result of malpractice.