The causes of this decline go far beyond party politics

Authorities under pressure over day release of double killer arrested over pensioner's death

A man was arrested today over the murder of a pensioner who was stabbed after going to the aid of his neighbour - a convicted paedophile - during a robbery.

A teenager raped a 13-year-old boy he had intended to rob and then told him he deserved it for not having a phone worth stealing, a court heard yesterday.

I wonder who first applied the adjective “great” to the term “train robbery”? A sub-editor on the Mirror or Express, I imagine. He or she might well have intended it to describe size rather than worth, but it’s a sign of how we remain titillated by the events of half a century ago.

Domenico Codispoti is restricted to a patch of pavement in central Milan

Three armed robbers pulled up alongside a courier boat in a Venice lagoon and seized  nearly €1.3m (£1.1m) in cash on Monday. 

Hard-boiled detection with modern angst

Spain have admitted that six players were robbed during the first week of the Confederations Cup, but deny the theft took place at a team party.

According to the report some players held a party before girls stole money from their rooms

Two men being held in custody and charged over an armed raid at Selfridges department store will appear in court today.

John Martorano turns on legendary Boston mobster for turning informant for the FBI

Raid involved eight machine-gun toting robbers in fake police uniforms

Apple is the latest US technology firm to join Facebook and Microsoft in revealing they have received between 4,000 to 5,000 surveillance requests from the US government since 1 December, 2012.