Crime

Dorset Police received a report of a disturbance on the beach near Bournemouth Pier this afternoon. A person was detained and another was treated for minor injuries, the force said

Emergency responders were alerted just after 11pm last night after a pedestrian was hit as crowds left the Pet Shop Boys concert at the Parc del Forum

Raul Meza Jr, 62, is thought to have murdered as many as 13 people in the course of his offending, which began as early as 1975 and has spent time in and out of prison since

Emergency services raced to Carr Mill Dam earlier today after police said they were concerned for the safety of a teenage girl. This afternoon, a police spokesperson confirmed her body has been found

Pieper Lewis, now 18, had faced 20 years in jail for fatally stabbing her alleged rapist to death. After being detained she cut off her GPS ankle monitor and fled women's prison Fresh Start Women's Center in Des Moines, Iowa

Community alerts have been issued across Chicago after close to 50 armed robberies are believed to involve the same suspects. The robbery of man in the city's Hermosa district was caught on camera

Police bodycam footage captures the young girl breaking down in tears before asking cops whether she's going to jail after she was handcuffed at their home in Tulsa, Oklahoma, US

Here's everything we know so far about how Wednesday's tragedy unfolded at Bournemouth beach, from warnings about a dangerous riptide to confusing rumours about a jet ski

Police in Ekilstuna, Sweden, confirmed that a fight broke out between two rival youth gangs near to a sports facility in the town - which has left at least three with stab wounds

A 17-year-old boy and girl, 12, died during the tragedy at Bournemouth beach on Wednesday with a man in his 40s arrested for manslaughter as police continue to investigate the incident

Three teens in a suburb of Syracuse, New York state, have been arrested and charged in connection with taking a prize swan and her cygnets from a pond. Police said Faye the swan was killed and eaten

Chris Thomas, 50, the well-loved and popular owner of The Clock Bar in Lanzarote's Costa Teguise, tragically died after plunging 13ft to his death from a balcony during a brawl with a drunken German expat

Rob Creech says his 18-year-old son was the first person to find the 12-year-old floating "face down" in the water off Bournemouth beach before pulling her to shore in yesterday's tragedy

Dorset Police have confirmed there is no evidence a vessel struck anyone after two children, aged 17 and 12, were killed at Bournemouth beach on Wednesday afternoon

A federal court judge found that articles published claiming that Ben Roberts-Smith had unlawfully killed Afghan prisoners and "bullied and harassed" Afghan civilians were "substantially true"

Witness Ritta Saruchera said witnesses saw a boy "floating in the water" as Bournemouth beach was evacuated with a huge emergency response scrambled to the scene

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The Brit, who owned the Clock Bar in the resort of Costa Teguise in Lanzarote, plunged 13ft from a balcony after brawling with a German expat - who is now in police custody

Roger Harriott murdered his own sister on a Huddersfield street just a week after his teenage son was handed a life sentence for the murder of schoolboy Khayri Mclean

A video shows Dennis Akpomedaye, 30, stalking his ex-girlfriend Anna Jedrkowiak, 21, who he later stabbed more than 40 times in an alley in London before trying to decapitate her

Dorset Police is investigating the deaths of two people who got into difficulty at Bournemouth beach, an incident which sparked a "multi-agency operation" on the coast

Jasmine Hartin has been fined for shooting dead a Belizean police chief in San Pedro and is the former "daughter-in-law" of billionaire Lord Michel Ashcroft

Passengers on the Ryanair flight from Palma to Manchester on Tuesday watched on as the man, wearing flip-flops, was greeted by police officers after the flight touched down

The facility, discovered Anda in Heilongjiang province, was manned by the notorious Unit 731 in the Second World War who conducted vile experiments on Chinese prisoners

The criminals, including prolific paedophiles and rapists, were under the supervision of probation staff when they struck again, and one is thought to be rapist Ashley Shuck