All news on the topic: Violence

A man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after a doctor was attacked while at work at Hillingdon Hospital yesterday.

In a landmark case that horrified France, Gisele Pelicot’s husband was in 2024 sentenced to 20 years in prison for recruiting strangers to sexually abuse her while drugged unconscious in their home. Dozens of the men who raped her were also jailed.

The Metropolitan Police has warned that it is preparing for potential violence and hate speech crimes across two protests in London this Saturday.

New details have been revealed about the murder of Ian Watkins, including how a prisoner allegedly ‘boasted’ after stabbing him to death.

Last year, plastic surgeon Vardan Khachatryan was celebrated as a national hero.

A long-serving Morrisons manager was dismissed by the supermarket for taking a shoplifter to the ground.

Media coverage of violence against women and girls and misogynistic harassment is at a "pitiful" low, despite a proliferation of high-profile cases of men abusing women and children, and a rise in AI-assisted violence against women and girls, new research shows.

A referee was shot dead midway through a football match in Ecuador after gunmen stormed the pitch and opened fire.

Eighteen months after a damning report branded conditions “appalling” and warned it was among the UK’s most violent prisons, Strangeways has seen little meaningful improvement.

Organized crime gangs are operating "with impunity" at a high-security jail by using drones to import drugs through broken and insecure windows, the watchdog has revealed.

Murder detectives have identified a man who was fatally stabbed in a machete attack, leaving two others in critical condition.

Altagrace, a mother living in the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince, remembers the moment that her life changed forever.

Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić hailed his party’s performance in small municipal elections, while watchdogs reported widespread fraud and election-day violence.

In addition to being charged with aggravated pimping, the 62-year-old suspect was also charged with eight rapes.

The infamous Hennessy mob laughed and joked their way through court proceedings - the Dublin gangsters have finally been brought to justice.

The Mexican army killed the country’s most powerful cartel leader and one of the United States’ most wanted fugitives, marking a significant victory while cartel members responded with a wave of violence across the country.

Former Nepalese Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli is permitted to travel after speaking with two commissions investigating violence during the anti-corruption protests in September.

Police have detained seven men in Sydney’s south-west in connection with possible planned violence.

Police arrested four people after officers rushed to the Tower following reports of an incident shortly before 10am. They found that food had been thrown onto a case containing the State Crown, which is used at coronations and state openings of Parliament.

Police have confirmed that 10 people were shot dead at Saulsville Hostel in Atteridgeville, west of Pretoria, while more than 10 others were injured and taken to the hospital.

Documents and first-person accounts reveal how a quickly organized evacuation by a private charity left hundreds of Ukrainian children in a Turkish seaside town with little supervision.

“Dr. Evil,” the alleged sadistic Russian prison medic, exposed by OCCRP and RFE/RL Schemes, has been charged in absentia by Ukraine with war crimes.