Crime

The balloon burst into flames at around 6:20am on Sunday morning in Worcestershire, resulting in “screaming” coming from a “fireball” as the balloon came crashing down

De Zoysa was still handcuffed when he shot Sgt Ratana at the Croydon custody block in South London, after being stopped and searched in nearby Norbury and found with seven rounds of ammunition

A man has been arrested in connection with the disappearance of a woman from her home address in Derbyshire. A murder investigation has been launched, and police are appealing for any information on Sarah Henshaw's whereabouts.

Trevor Raekwon Seward, 25, has been convicted of killing a mail carrier who instead of delivering a large package of marijuana to his home left a note in the mailbox asking him to pick it up

The teenage girl died after being pulled from the sea at Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire yesterday, a tragedy which struck amid a UK heatwave during which temperatures have hit 30C

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Humberside Police have said two teenagers were airlifted to hospital shortly after 7:30PM on Saturday

A Pennsylvania man has been sentenced to over 20 years in prison for murdering his wife and setting their home on fire with their children inside - however, his fabricated story unraveled during a lengthy nine-year investigation

German prosecutors have spent the past two weeks carefully going over items found during their search of the Barragem do Arade reservoir in Portugal

Wagner's HQ in St Petersburg has been raided by Vladimir Putin's Federal Security Service troops and it has been claimed £38million in cash was found stashed inside a van and two buses

Several police forces and other emergency services have since confirmed they are able to receive 999 calls again, while some said they were experiencing the "residual impact" of the national fault

A woman aged 42 was killed in a house fire in Oldham, Greater Manchester, as a number of nearby residents were evacuated from the area as officers began investigations

The failed Tory London Mayor candidate admitted, through his lawyers, that his claim to have left to go on BBC Newsnight was "unintentionally inaccurate"

Former DS David Shipley came out of retirement to help with the case and is now calling for the law to treat sexual crimes against the dead and the living in the same way.

Kristel Candelario, from Ohio, is facing murder charges after leaving her 16-month-old daughter home alone while she went on holiday for 10 days with the tot later dying

The former Eastenders star says progress has been slow since the death of her brother, Ben, in June 2008. However, Brooke has vowed that she will never stop in her fight against knife crime.

Diogo Santos Coelho, 23, faces up to 52 years in jail if found guilty amid claims he set up one of the world’s largest hacker forums after quitting school in London at 15

Mercenary Yevgeny Prigozhin's mercenaries the Wagner Group has smashed its way through barricades erected by civilians attempting to keep them way from Moscow

A 15-year-old girl is recovering in hospital, while a 23-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder, after the victim was stabbed

WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT: Officials say a teenage mother, Alexee Trevizo, delivered a baby in secret in the hospital bathroom

A large 'illegal' street party in Saginaw, Michigan turned deadly with a 19-year-old man and a 51-year-old woman killed, while several others were injured as gunshots were fired and attendees fled the scene in panic

In a Tweet Sefton council said that emergency services were currently shepherding beachgoers to safety following the discovery of “wartime ordinance”

A two-year-old boy accidentally shot and killed his pregnant mother after finding a pistol in her nightstand, prompting an ongoing investigation

A couple were left horrified when their neighbour took in their parcel - but rather than trying to be neighbourly, they were attempting to steal the contents of the package

Lori Milliron was convicted last year of perjury, being an accessory to a murder after the fact and obstructing a grand jury