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Carl Pistorius, the brother of murder-accused Olympian and Paralympian Oscar Pistorius, has been acquitted on a charge of culpable homicide.

Charges were dropped on Tuesday against one of the men accused of raping and killing teenager Anene Booysen, the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) said.

Carl Pistorius -- the brother of murder-accused paralympian Oscar Pistorius -- was elated about his acquittal on Tuesday on a culpable homicide charge.

Dundon legal team needs to examine large volume of video footage and documents    

Work on evacuating rear patio of house where gardaí believe murder victim may be buried continues    

The ex-wife of an Englishman who allegedly killed his two children had "regularly fought" him having custody, it has emerged.    

Scotland Yard is a name that evokes a fogbound Victorian era of mystery, murder and mayhem. In these tough economic times, the headquarters of London’s police force will soon be relocating as part of a money-saving strategy.    

DUBAI (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia executed five Yemenis on Tuesday for robbery and murder, then put their bodies on public display as a further punishment, state news agency SPA said.

Murder-accused South African sprinter Oscar Pistorius will not race this season, his agent said, weeks before the Paralympian's return to court.

Tytell appeals conviction and two life sentences for murdering two Palestinians, assortment of other crimes.

Arias, convicted of killing her ex-boyfriend, will testify during the penalty phase of her murder trial.

Law enforcement in Omaha, Nebraska are examining the possibility of a link between the murder of university professor Roger Brumback his wife Mary and two other homicides five years ago.

The Allahabad high court on Tuesday rejected a petition of dentist couple Rajesh and Nupur Talwar seeking examination of 14 more witnesses in the Aarushi-Hemraj murder case.

Saudi Arabia on Tuesday executed and crucified five Yemenis convicted of murder and forming a gang which carried out robberies across several towns in the conservative Muslim kingdom, the interior ministry said.    

• Memo said 'inner sanctum' secrets were at risk• Scotland Yard tried to gag Leveson inquiry, says QC Scotland Yard on Monday defended a decision it made not to take action over intelligence it received alleging leaks of internal secrets from its "inner sanctum", potentially to the News of the World (NoW).The intelligence is contained in a Met document...

The Times Editorial: The appallingly cruel rape, torture and murder of 17-year-old Anene Booysen in Bredasdorp has exposed the ugly underbelly of South African life and the bitter reality that women and children are frequently preyed upon by heartless thugs.

      RAWALPINDI/ISLAMABAD   A trial court on Monday granted bail to military dictator and former President General (r) Pervez Musharraf in PPP Chairperson Benazir Bhutto (BB) murder case and ordered his immediate release. Anti Terrorism Court (ATC) Rawalpindi Number 1 Special Judge Chaudhry Habib-ur-Rehman, while hearing the bail plea filed by Musharraf’s...

          KARACHI Muttahida Qaumi Movement staged a protest demonstration outside the  Karachi Press Club here on Monday. MQM workers and supporters, including women and children gathered at the KPC to protest against Imran Khan’s alleging MQM chief Altaf Hussain responsible for the Zahra Shahid murder. The participants were holding placards and...

Sally Stickland, 72, is alleged to have mown down her husband John in a car just hundreds of metres from their family home.

EXCLUSIVE: BEAUTIFUL socialite quizzed by detectives over her relationship with Blade Runner murder accused

Relatives of domestic violence victim say her murder in 2008 by former boyfriend Marc Chivers must be catalyst for changeThe family of a woman strangled by her former boyfriend has called on the home secretary, Theresa May, to set up a Stephen Lawrence-style public inquiry to examine why victims of domestic violence are still not getting sufficient protection from the...

Murder-accused Oscar Pistorius will not race this season, says his agent, weeks before the athlete's return to court.

Murder-accused Harvey Isha had to take the blame for an apparent satanic ritual in which teenager Kirsty Theologo died, a Johannesburg court heard.

The Times Editorial: The appallingly cruel rape, torture and murder of 17-year-old Anene Booysen in Bredasdorp has exposed the ugly underbelly of South African life and the bitter reality that women and children are frequently preyed upon by heartless thugs.

False report in Israeli media attributed mass murder at Beersheba bank to 2 residents of Beduin city in the Negev.

Shock grips residents whose quiet area is a stranger to shoot-outs, car bombs, stabbings that can be common in rougher neighborhoods.

British foreign secretary warns of regional 'catastrophe' as al-Qaida and Hezbollah clash in battle for QusairBritain is seeking to amend the EU arms embargo on Syria to press Bashar al-Assad into holding peace talks with the rebels because the escalating conflict is threatening a regional "catastrophe", William Hague warned on Monday.Speaking as combat raged around the...

Murder-accused Harvey Isha had to take the blame for an apparent satanic ritual in which teenager Kirsty Theologo died, a Johannesburg court heard.

The Times Editorial: The appallingly cruel rape, torture and murder of 17-year-old Anene Booysen in Bredasdorp has exposed the ugly underbelly of South African life and the bitter reality that women and children are frequently preyed upon by heartless thugs.

Athletes agent confirms 26-year-old not mentally ready after murder charge    

Arias is expected to testify during the penalty phase of her murder trial

Bill Edwards (pictured) from Scalby, Scarborough claims he is struggling to find work six months after he shot at a van driven by thief David Taylor from Scarborough, North Yorkshire.

Oscar Pistorius will not return to the track for the rest of the year so he can focus on his looming court case for the alleged murder of his girlfriend.

The roommate of Maribel Ramos is expected to appear in court Tuesday on suspicion of murder after the missing Army veteran was found dead Thursday near Modjeska Canyon in Orange County, authorities said.

PHOENIX (Reuters) - Jodi Arias, facing the possible death penalty for the murder of an ex-boyfriend in Arizona, was due back in court on Monday for the final phase of a four-month-long trial.

The Times Editorial: The appallingly cruel rape, torture and murder of 17-year-old Anene Booysen in Bredasdorp has exposed the ugly underbelly of South African life and the bitter reality that women and children are frequently preyed upon by heartless thugs.

The Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) has decided to sue Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf chief Imran Khan for defamation. MQM leader Wasay Jalil said that the party would sue Mr Khan for Rs50 billion for issuing statement against Altaf Hussain. Imran Khan on Saturday held Mr Hussain responsible for the murder of his party leader Zahra Shahid, drawing strong reaction from the MQM. ...

Anti-Terrorist Court Rawalpindi on Monday reserved its verdict on the interim bail for former army chief General (retd) Pervez Musharraf in the murder case of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto. Musharraf’s counsel Barrister Salman Safdar contended before the ATC judge Chaudhry Habibur Rehman during hearing. He said that Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) is only authorized...

The man accused of killing a gay man in Manhattan appeared in court to face a charge of murder as a hate crime.

Pakistan's former military ruler currently under house arrest for a series of charges.

PHOENIX (AP) -- Jodi Arias returns to court Monday for the continuation of the penalty phase of her trial after being convicted of first-degree murder in the killing of her one-time lover as jurors consider a sentence of life in prison or execution....

The Times Editorial: The appallingly cruel rape, torture and murder of 17-year-old Anene Booysen in Bredasdorp has exposed the ugly underbelly of South African life and the bitter reality that women and children are frequently preyed upon by heartless thugs.

Elliot Morales, 33, was charged with second-degree murder as a hate crime, menacing and two counts of possession of a weapon in a Manhattan court on Sunday for allegedly shooting dead Mark Carson, 32.

Matt Carson's murder highlights the shortcomings of a rights-based, marriage-based approach to LGBT equality, and cries out for deeper, and more difficult, forms of engagement.

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan said that his party will protest against the murder of Zehra Shahid Hussain in Karachi on Monday. In a video message Sunday Imran Khan said Altaf Hussain was responsible for the killing of Zehra Shahid Hussain. He said PTI would hold a protest demonstration in Karachi on Monday to condemn the killing of Zehra Hussain....

Gay rights activists plan to march in huge numbers in the Village Monday to call for equality following this weekend's murder of a gay Harlem man.

The 48-year-old man, who has not been named, allegedly carried out the double-murder in a suburb of Lyon, in eastern France, on Saturday afternoon before fleeing on a pair of roller-skates.

One of the greatest threats to press freedom in Latin America comes in the form of shady criminal groups like Mexican drug cartels or Colombian paramilitaries who harass and sometimes murder journalists that report on their activities.Increasingly, however, a new threat is emerging in the hemisphere. It comes in the form of democratically elected officials. These politicians,...

The Times Editorial: The appallingly cruel rape, torture and murder of 17-year-old Anene Booysen in Bredasdorp has exposed the ugly underbelly of South African life and the bitter reality that women and children are frequently preyed upon by heartless thugs.

Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) chief Altaf Hussain has strongly condemned the murder of Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Zehra Shahid Hussain. Altaf Hussain termed the PTI leader's killing a barbaric act. He offered condolences over the killing with Zehra Shahid's family and the workers of the PTI, said an MQM press release received here on Saturday night. He prayed...

Imran Khan has blamed the British government and a political rival living in London for the murder of a senior member of his party, shot dead as she left her home in the sprawling port city of Karachi.    

Imran Khan has blamed the British government and a political rival living in London for the murder of a senior member of his party, shot dead as she left her home in the sprawling port city of Karachi.    

The Times Editorial: The appallingly cruel rape, torture and murder of 17-year-old Anene Booysen in Bredasdorp has exposed the ugly underbelly of South African life and the bitter reality that women and children are frequently preyed upon by heartless thugs.

The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has expressed concern over PTI leader’s murder in Karachi while saying that it is a bid to sabotage polling process in the city. The Election Commission has said in a statement issued this mid night that Zara Sheikh’s murder is a bid to sabotage voting process in Karachi. The security agencies have been instructed by the ECP...

Muthaida Qaumi Movement (MQM) has expressed strong reaction over Imran's Khan allegations against Altaf Hussain for the killing of his party leader Zahra Shahid Hussain. Addressing a press conference here on Sunday, MQM senior Leader Dr Farooq Sattar condemned the brutal murder of PTI vice president of Karachi, Zahra Shahid and said that Imran Khan has shown his immaturity...

The 31-year-old man was shot on the junction of Church Road and Selborne Road in Hove, Sussex, at about 11.30pm.

In an exclusive interview with Chris McGreal in Kigali, Rwanda's president denies backing an accused Congolese war criminal and says challenge to senior US official proves his innocenceRwanda's president, Paul Kagame, has rejected accusations from Washington that he was supporting a rebel leader and accused war criminal in the Democratic Republic of the Congo by challenging...

By Katharine Houreld ISLAMABAD, May 19 (Reuters) - Gunmen killed a senior female politician from a reformist party in Pakistan on Saturday night, the latest violent incident in a bloody election campaign and one that set off a war of words between two major opposition parties. Around 150 people were killed in the run-up to national elections...

Gunmen stormed the Mayo Hospital Surgery Unit and got free an under-treatment detainee, police admitted on Saturday. The assailants tortured the on-duty policemen and took away their official guns. A police officer said Athar had been arrested in connection with double murder and he was also wanted in several heinous cases.  Hospital sources said that four gunmen forced...

karachi - PTI Chairman Imran Khan held MQM chief Altaf Hussain directly responsible for the murder of a senior party leader in Karachi on Saturday night. Zehra Shahid Hussain, PTI’s Sindh senior vice-president, was gunned down in Defence Housing Authority Phase-IV late on Saturday night. Apparently Zehra was killed in a robbery attempt, but it being timed with re-election...

NICK ROSS: Crime has been with us since Adam and Eve and, surprisingly, God didn’t spot the solution. Rather than punishing the miscreants, it might have been better had he put the forbidden fruit higher up the tree.

The Times Editorial: The appallingly cruel rape, torture and murder of 17-year-old Anene Booysen in Bredasdorp has exposed the ugly underbelly of South African life and the bitter reality that women and children are frequently preyed upon by heartless thugs.

Glasgow-born Colin Norris (pictured) was jailed in 2008 for the murder of Ethel Hall, Bridget Bourke, Doris Ludlam and Irene Crooks, and the attempted murder of Vera Wilby at two Leeds hospitals.

A murder suspect was given injections of acid and kerosene during police questioning in Uttar Pradesh, following which he fell sick and died in a Lucknow hospital.

Three days after IG-rank IPS officer N Balasubramanyam was chargesheeted for murder in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case, the state government made him intelligence chief of the state.    

Police say member of Imran Khan's Movement for Justice party ambushed by two bikersA senior female member of Imran Khan's Movement for Justice party (PTI) was shot dead outside her home in Karachi on Saturday.Reports suggested that Zahra Shahid Hussain, who was senior vice-president of the PTI, was killed while resisting an attempted robbery in the upmarket Defence neighbourhood...

Organisers in Kiev determined to go ahead after cancellation of last year's event, despite rise in homophobic attacksEfforts are going ahead in Ukraine's capital Kiev to stage a gay pride march next week in the face of data showing a sharp rise in the number of homophobic attacks reported in the city.Organisers were forced to cancel the celebration last year, hours before...

The Times Editorial: The appallingly cruel rape, torture and murder of 17-year-old Anene Booysen in Bredasdorp has exposed the ugly underbelly of South African life and the bitter reality that women and children are frequently preyed upon by heartless thugs.

"Kai the Hatchet Wielding Hitchhiker" has been arrested in U.S. murder

Caleb McGillvary, also known as Kai, the hatchet-wielding hitchhiker has appeared in court in Philadelphia, charged with the murder of lawyer Joseph Galfy, 73, in New Jersey. McGillvary, 24, was arrested at a Greyhound Bus stop on Thursday and was arraigned last night.

Tia Sharp, 12, (pictured) was killed at her grandmother's house in Croydon, after a life surrounded by the bad influences of her dysfunctional family.

Two years ago, Dellen Millard’s outlook could be summarized in the word he would have tattooed on his wrist: “ambition.” Now he’s charged with murder

The Times Editorial: The appallingly cruel rape, torture and murder of 17-year-old Anene Booysen in Bredasdorp has exposed the ugly underbelly of South African life and the bitter reality that women and children are frequently preyed upon by heartless thugs.