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United Kingdom

Drunk driver launches car, and her 19-month-old child, over roundabout

A 32-year-old woman has been jailed for dangerous driving after speeding and launching her car nearly 5 metres into the air after “crashing into a…

Italy

Italian high court makes stinky cooking a crime

Italy's Court of Cassation this week upheld a ruling criminalising strong cooking odours and even branded the legal term: “olfactory molestation”

Spain

Spanish football manager arrested for match-fixing after his team's 12-0 thrashing

Filippo Vito di Perro, the Italian manager of third division Spanish football club Eldense, has been arrested for allegations of match fixing.

Netherlands

Dutch calls for solidarity against gay violence after Arnhem couple gets savaged

A gay couple were attacked while holding hands prompting a social media response

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USA

14-year-old arrested over Facebook live sexual assault

A 14-year-old boy has been arrested in Chicago in connection with the sexual assault of a teenage girl that was broadcast on Facebook Live.

Israel

Israeli police arrest 19 year old suspect linked to bomb threats targeting Jewish community centers in the US and abroad

United Kingdom

Russian exile may have been murdered with poisoned soup

Hungary

Jail term doubled for hospital chief's acid attack on ex-lover

A doctor who attacked his ex-lover with acid has had his jail term doubled by Hungary’s appeal court.

Germany

German suspect arrested over killing of boy boasted on the web

Marcel Hesse is accused of posting photos and a video of the dead boy on the internet

World News

Fake Justin Bieber charged with more than 900 child sex offences

Police in Australia Justin Bieber fans be extra vigilant online after charging a man for posing as the singer and soliciting explicit images

France

Remains of missing French family found

Body parts have been found in the hunt for a missing French family, at the farm of a relative who has admitted their murder.

Germany

Germany : Police hunt suspect who bragged about killing a child

A manhunt is underway in Germany after a video emerged of a teenager boasting about stabbing his nine-year-old neighbour to death.

Ireland

Irish PM set to widen probe into Church-run homes

Ireland is expected to widen an inquiry into former Church-run homes for unmarried mothers on the orders of the country’s prime minister.

Greece

Greek police put on show major drugs haul

Greek authorities have presented the haul they seized in a major drugs raid at the weekend.

France

Brother-in-law admits murdering French family

49-year-old Pascal Troadec disappeared a fortnight ago, along with his wife Brigitte, 21-year-old son Sebastien and 18-year-old daughter, Charlotte.

France

Mystery as family-of-four disappear in France

Prosecutors in Nantes have opened an investigation into murder, abduction and illegal confinement. Intensive searches are underway for the Troadec family who have disappeared from their bloodstained h

France

EU parliament to consider stripping Le Pen of immunity

EU parliamentarians agreed to suspend, in a preliminary vote, Marine Le Pen's immunity as police seek to investigate violent ISIL images on Twitter.

South Korea

Samsung heir to be indicted on bribery charges

Prosecutors in South Korea say they will charge Samsung group chief Jay Y. Lee with bribery and embezzlement in connection with a corruption scandal.

El Salvador

El Salvador's beloved national hippo is beaten to death

The country has reacted with shock and horror after Gustavito was beaten to death in his pen at the national zoo.

USA

New surge in anti-Jewish crimes prompts Trump condemnation

More community centres evacuated and more American Jews afraid - the hate crimes against the community in the US continue to mount.