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In 2012, the rape and murder of 17-year-old Sowjanya in Karnataka’s temple town of Dharmasthala led to widespread outrage and several protests across the state. Yet, thirteen years later, the perpetrators of the crime have not been brought to justice. Reason: The police allegedly botched up the investigation. 

Ms Penney, 40, died after being shot in the chest at an address in Llys Illtyd, in Talbot Green, South Wales, on March 9.

“In that moment, I wanted to help her but I was almost paralysed in my skin.”

After almost three decades on the run, Stephan Smerk has been sentenced for first-degree murder in crime ‘among the worst’ Fairfax County had ever seen, James Liddell writes

Book delves in to network of Trump, government members and ultra-rich to overturn Times v Sullivan

A teenage murder sparks Stephen Graham and Jack Thorne’s affecting drama about the online ‘manosphere’; Michael Sheen’s generosity exposes Britain’s debt crisis; and, for the first time in 30 years, chess is king at the BBC

Bodies of 17 murdered men removed from monument to Francoism and returned to families amid political row over legacy of Spain’s civil war

The Colorado man was arrested with a severed hand in his pocket in 2024, which he later told police had been there for two days.

Hundreds of civilians murdered by militant groups, throwing doubt over new government’s ability to control the country - and US willingness to lift sanctions

Three men and a woman have been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder

The eight-episode series ‘Happy Face’ for Paramount+ is inspired by the true story of Melissa G. Moore and the shocking discovery that her father was the infamous serial killer known as Happy Face. Andrea Cavallier reports