The decomposed bodies of six women have been found in the Cleveland, Ohio, home of convicted rapist Anthony Sowell, who was arrested Saturday, the coroner conducting the autopsies said.
A nephew of de facto leader Roberto Micheletti was killed in a possible political attack and a colonel was shot dead in a separate incident. Micheletti (pictured) has ruled Honduras since a June 28 coup.
A medical laboratory in Lyon has identified two traces of DNA that could help authorities to solve the mystery of who murdered 4-year-old Grégory Villemin 25 years ago.
A day after French filmmaker Christian Poveda was shot dead in a drive-by shooting, Salvadoran police say they have arrested a suspect. Poveda’s acclaimed 2008 documentary film “La Vida Loca” examined gang violence in El Salvador.
The Russian supreme court has approved a request from the family of slain investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya (pictured) for a new investigation to be opened into who ordered and carried out the 2006 murder of the fierce Kremlin critic.
Seven people were murdered and two injured in a series of killings at a mobile park near Savannah, Georgia in the US. The victims were said to have been shot.
Fuelled by drug gang rivalries, the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez has the highest murder rate in the world, followed by the Venezuelan capital Caracas and the US city of New Orleans, a Mexican security watchdog said on Wednesday.
Allamma Ali Sher Haideri, the leader of a banned Sunni extremist group suspected of carrying out attacks on Pakistan's Shiite minority, was shot dead Monday in the southern Sindh province, police say.
A 16-year-old boy shot and killed his parents and twin 10-year-old brothers in the town of Albitreccia, in southern Corsica. The teenager apparently used his father's shotgun. Investigators have not established a motive for the crime.
Russia claims to bring peace and stability to its Northern Caucasus regions. However, everyday news of kidnappings and killings tend to show the contrary. Is Russian policy in Northern Caucasus unravelling?
