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CNN
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A 73-year-old man has confessed to holding his daughter captive in his home cellar for nearly 24 years and fathering seven children by her, Austrian police say. Austrian police spokesman Franz Polzer told CNN, the man, known as Mr. F., admitted holding hi..
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CNN
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A Yemeni judge dissolved the marriage of an 8-year-old girl to a man nearly four times her age, and the girl's lawyer said Wednesday that the court also ordered the youngster removed from the control of the father who forced her into the wedding.
The l..
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Yahoo News
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A man claiming to be a Catholic priest was arrested Friday at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport after he was caught carrying 7.7 pounds of cocaine under his robes, a spokesman for Dutch border police said.
The suspect, whose identity was being traced, initi..
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CNN
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Canoe Man" John Darwin, who was presumed dead until he walked into a London police station earlier this month, appeared in court in northern England Monday. The 57-year-old appeared at Hartlepool Magistrates' Court accused of making an untrue statement to..
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CNN
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The two sons of a British man who suddenly reappeared five years after he was thought to have drowned at sea said Thursday they feared they may have been the victims of a "huge scam" carried out by their own parents. Police on Thursday were preparing to q..
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BBC News
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A 68-year-old man has been arrested by French police on suspicion of murdering 18 people, most of them homosexuals, between 1980 and 2002, officials say.
The suspect, Nicolas Panard, is alleged to have killed 11 people in the Alsace region, four others..
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USA Today
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A Canadian man died Saturday, four days after police used a Taser stun-gun on him because he reportedly was acting erratically in a store, police said. He was the third person to die in recent weeks in Canada after being shocked by the handheld weapon...
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BBC News
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A national day of mourning is being held in Finland after an 18-year-old man went on a gun rampage at his school and killed seven pupils and a teacher.
The gunman, reportedly identified as Pekka-Eric Auvinen, shot himself in the head and later died in..
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BBC News
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A man who urinated on a woman as she lay dying and shouted "this is YouTube material" has been sentenced to three years in prison.
Anthony Anderson also covered Christine Lakinski with shaving foam after she collapsed in a Hartlepool street.
The 50-..
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Google Associated Press
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A Vatican official suspended after being caught on hidden camera making advances to a young man says he is not gay and was only pretending to be gay as part of his work.
In an interview published Sunday, Monsignor Tommaso Stenico told La Repubblica dai..
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News.com.au
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US billionaire Donald Trump is a man who usually gets what he wants, but a Scottish salmon fisherman is standing firm against his plans to build a luxury golf course resort.
Trump wants to build two championship courses, a 450-bedroom hotel and 950 hol..
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Google Associated Press
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Interpol sought public help Monday in identifying a suspected pedophile, revealing a technique to unscramble digitally altered images to show the face of a man seen in Internet photos sexually abusing young boys in Vietnam and Cambodia.
Specialists suc..
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CNN
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A Russian court sentenced an American man to nine years in prison Tuesday for strangling his wife's uncle in a fight that broke out over an apartment, his lawyer said.
The Industrial Federal Court in the far eastern city of Khabarovsk handed down the s..
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BBC News
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A Hartlepool man is facing jail after he urinated on a disabled woman who lay dying in the street.
The 27-year-old shouted "this is YouTube material" as he degraded Christine Lakinski, 50, who had fallen ill, magistrates heard.
Miss Lakinski, who su..
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Sydney Morning Herald
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INSULIN-DEPENDENT diabetics have been warned to seek approval to carry life-saving needles and medication onto flights after a man collapsed en route to Sydney.
Under tough new airline security measures, patients must carry documentation to be allowed..
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Yahoo News
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The Loch Ness monster is back and there's video. A man has captured what Nessie watchers say is possible footage of the supposed mythical creature beneath Scotland's most mysterious lake.
"I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw this jet black thing,..
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BBC News
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A man has been charged with indecent assault following the rescue of a South African boy who had allegedly been held captive in a dark room for 13 years.
The boy, known as Bongani, is said to be traumatised and recoils from bright lights. He was allege..
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Sydney Morning Herald
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A man cut off his own head with a chainsaw after stabbing his 70-year-old father to death in their apartment in the German city of Cologne, police said.
The body of the offender, 24, was found headless when police raced to the apartment after an emerge..
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BBC News
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A Swiss man has been jailed for 10 years after pleading guilty to charges of insulting the Thai king.
Oliver Jufer, 57, was arrested last December after drunkenly spray-painting posters of King Bhumibol Adulyadej in the northern city of Chiang Mai...
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Times Online
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For 62 years, Akira Makino spoke not a word of what he’d done, but to those who knew him well it must have been obvious that he was a man with a tortured conscience. Why else would he have returned so often to the obscure, mosquito-blown town in the sou..
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