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A Malaysian teenager was on Monday found not guilty of murdering his 16-year-old schoolmate last year, after a high court ruled that he had been of unsound mind when he attacked the victim in their school, in a case that left the country reeling in shock and horror. The boy, who was 15 at the time of the attack last October, was arrested at his high school in Selangor state on the same morning that he had repeatedly stabbed Yap Shing Xuen in the school’s toilet. The victim, who was a year from...
The killing of the 16-year-old nearly a year ago had shocked Malaysia and sparked debate about social media.
Accused allegedly planned to use data stored on victim’s cellphone to extort money from families of women featured in them, say police
Head of Balyan khap Naresh Tikait told reporters in Shamli that khap heads met the DM and the SP and demanded security for Balyan's family, employment for one member of the family and financial help
Denise Cosco testified against the powerful 'Ndrangheta clan and her own father over the murder of her mother in Italy.
Investigators are exploring potential motives linked to domestic issues and Christy’s mental health, particularly postpartum depression, as they seek custody to gather further evidence.
Provath Das has reportedly confessed to killing the woman and child. He says they were not his wife and child and he had known them for only two months
A Malaysian court has nearly doubled jail time for a woman who stabbed her boyfriend to death for demanding sex after ruling that the sentencing court had been “over-sympathetic” towards the accused. The Court of Appeal increased the prison sentence for the woman, identified only as Shy to protect her identity, from the six and a half years imposed by the Johor Bahru High Court to 12 years, Free Malaysia Today news portal reported on Tuesday. Evrol Mariette Peters, one of the three judges in the...
The suspected murderers of two Australian surfers and an American at a Mexican surfing hotspot went on trial on Monday, two years after their killings in a suspected robbery. Australian brothers Jake and Callum Robinson, aged 30 and 33, respectively, and 30-year-old American friend Jack Carter Rhoad were on a surfing trip to Mexico’s Pacific coast when they were shot dead in Baja California state. They had been camping in a remote beachside area when they were attacked in April 2024. Their...
The two bodies were found packed in sacks and dumped into the Bhavani river on Sunday.
Motosu, Gifu Pref., Sept. 7 (Jiji Press)--Gifu prefectural police have found multiple knives at a cake shop in the central Japan prefecture where two people were found dead after a fire on Saturday, investigative sources said Monday. The police believe the knives may include the weapon used to stab a man who died of blood loss from a stab wound to the abdomen. The fire started Sunrise, a...
Mylapalli Chanti left his sister’s house at Kotha Jalaripeta during the night and was found on the beach in the morning with injuries to the neck and head
Family members and relatives of the deceased stage a ‘rasta-roko’ on the Madanapalle bypass road, demanding the arrest of the accused who is at large
The Nolambur police arrested four persons - V. Vaseegaran (18), R. Ajay (18), S. Gokul Raj (18) and R. Sabari, for the murder.
The mistrial now puts the murder case - and Clancy's future - in limbo as to whether she will be held criminally liable in the deaths of her three kids.
A Christian man by the name of Nader Boulos Tannous was murdered in Homs, Syria on August 15, 2026. After his death, Israel, Greece and Cyprus were quick to denounce what they called an anti-Christian act. Several days later however, authorities in Homs said the suspect had admitted killing Tannous as part of a personal dispute going back to 2012.
A campaigner who has worked on the case of murdered Maltese journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia since she was killed by a car bomb in 2017 has spoken of his devastation at the not guilty verdict.
Hundreds of people demonstrated in the Maltese capital Valletta after a wealthy businessman was found not guilty of masterminding the murder of an investigative journalist. The verdict on Daphne Caruana Galizia's car-bomb killing in 2017 sparked outrage from Maltese civil society groups and international media freedom organisations. The opposition Nationalist Party, which organised the demonstration late on Wednesday, has said lawmakers should be called back from their summer break for a special session of the legislature to discuss the case.
Dara Singh is serving a life sentence for burning alive Graham Staines and his two sons in Odisha in 1999.
Saad al-Hilli was shot dead with his wife and mother-in-law while holidaying in eastern France in September 2012.
The rapper's killing became one of popular culture's great mysteries, with countless theories but no arrests until 2023.