Two young women were killed by their father "in the name of honour" in Peshawar's Achar Kali area on September 20, police said on Saturday. According to Bala Mani Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Fazal Wahid, Abdul Gani killed his daughters — 20-year-old Shamim and 10-year-old Noreen — and confessed to the crime upon his arrest.

Successful prosecution in a police shooting is rare due to the legal standard that must be overcome. By Joel Currier and Robert Patrick.

The teenager accused of gunning down a classmate and wounding three others at a Washington state high school told police he wanted "to teach everyone a lesson about what happens when you bully others." In court records released Thursday, 15-year-old Caleb Sharpe also divulged the last words Sam Strahan, the sophomore he is accused of killing Wednesday at Freeman High School in the town of Rockford, about 25 miles southwest of Spokane.

A criminal charge was preferred against an airman first class assigned to the 28th Bomb Wing on Aug. 7, 2017. Airman 1st Class David E. MacDonald was notified that the charge of murder, a violation of Article 118, of the Uniform Code of Military Justice, is being considered against him in relation to the death of his infant son on Nov. 7, 2016. An Article 32 pretrial hearing is scheduled to begin on Oct. 26 2017.

At least 10 members of an uncontacted tribe in Brazil’s Amazon Basin were allegedly killed last month by illegal gold miners, according to Survival International. The organization, which advocates for indigenous rights, said the massacre included women and children and may have wiped out one-fifth of the tribe. Members of the tribe were gathering eggs along a river in the Javari Valley, in the country’s remote west, when they came across the miners, The New York Times reported. The miners later boasted about the slaughter at a bar in the nearest town, and even showed off a hand-carved paddle they claimed to have stolen as a trophy.

A 19-year-old Chicago woman was found dead in a freezer at a hotel in suburban Rosemont early Sunday, hours after she was reported missing, according to police.

The man charged with killing Temple University student Jenna Burleigh in his North Philadelphia apartment last week placed her remains in a container that was taken to his mother’s Jenkintown home, where he later put it into a Lyft car and rode more than 100 miles to his grandmother’s house in northeastern Pennsylvania, according to a police source.

A gay LGBT activist has been found dead in his home in Jamaica. Dexter Pottinger’s body was found with multiple stab wounds earlier this week on Thursday. It is not yet known when Pottinger was killed because he was found decomposing. The death of the activist, who was also a fashion designer and model, has shaken the community.

A German police investigation has found evidence that a former nurse murdered at least 86 people in his care. "The realization of what we were able to learn is horrifying," Johan Kühme, chief of police in the northern German city of Oldenburg told news outlets, including the The New York Times. "It defies any scope of the imagination."

A 25-year-old has confessed to stabbing to death his 6-year-old sister and two young cousins while babysitting the family at their Maryland home, police said. The three girls, all under 10, were found dead in a single bed with lacerations to their upper body, according to the Prince George's County Police Department. Antonio Williams' mother found her daughter and the other two children in the basement of her home.

Prosecutors on Tuesday charged a Missouri woman with murder in the death of her 16-year-old biological daughter, whose remains were found in a burn pit on their rural property. Savannah Leckie, who was raised by her adoptive mother in Minnesota, was reported missing in late July from her home in Longrun, where she lived with Rebecca Ruud, who was Leckie's biological mother and Rudd's then-boyfriend. A forensic analysis was used to identify her remains, according to Ozark County Sheriff Darrin Reed.

Bail was set at $2 million for two western Montana residents who are charged in the stabbing deaths of two people whose bodies were found in plastic tubs of chemicals in the basement of a Missoula home. Tiffanie Pierce, 23, and Augustus Standingrock, 26, were arrested last week and made their initial appearances in Justice Court on Monday. Both are charged with deliberate homicide and accountability to deliberate homicide for the deaths of a man and a woman on Aug. 17. They did not enter pleas.

In the introduction to his novel The Guilty Secret, Chinese writer Liu Yongbiao revealed he had already started work on a follow-up he hoped would prove a literary sensation: a suspense-filled, cold-case detective drama about a ravishing female author who evades capture despite committing a string of grisly murders. He would call it The Beautiful Writer who Killed.

The actor who plays Mickey on Twin Peaks: The Return is facing attempted murder charges after he beat his girlfriend with a baseball bat in Spokane, Washington. Jeremy Lindholm, 41, was upset that his girlfriend would not go to a store to get him a Kool-Aid before going to work at a lingerie boutique. According to court documents obtained by The Spokesman-Review, the surveillance video shows that he beat her a dozen times in the head with a bat...

A Bucks County woman who drank the equivalent of more than eight shots of alcohol before driving the wrong way on Route 309 and killing an Allentown man in a head-on crash was convicted Wednesday night of third-degree murder. A Bucks County judge ordered a presentence investigation before deciding how long Noelle Theresa Chew, of Richland Township, will spend in jail, the county district attorney's office reports. Gary B. Gilman revoked Chew's 10 percent of $500,000 bail, records show.

It remains one of the most enduring mysteries in British criminal history with a long list of potential suspects.

Eleven members of gang who hunted down and killed a teenager in Manchester have been found guilty of carrying out the "vicious" attack. Defendants aged between 15 and 21 chased Abdulwahab Hafidah for more than five miles along busy roads in the evening rush hour on 12 May last year. The 18-year-old told a passer-by “help me, they’re going to kill me” moments before he was cornered, Manchester Crown Court heard.

“My dentist was recently indicted for murder.” It sounds like a droll line that you’d use at a dinner party, but in my case it’s true. On October 15, 2015, Dr. Gilberto Nunez, whose patient I had been for many years, was indicted for killing his friend Thomas Kolman, of Saugerties, New York, by getting him “to ingest a substance that caused his death.” There were also two forgery counts: allegedly, Nunez had been posing as a C.I.A. agent. He’d apparently told people that he was authorized to implant tracking devices in patients’ teeth. It wasn’t the kind of news you wanted to hear about your family dentist.

According to court documents, Vurnel Smith’s wife filed a restraining order on him on July 15th and was denied by the judge. In the document, the wife lists previous cases of violence involving Smith and voices a concern for her own safety. The filing was then denied on Monday, July 17th.

A man suspected of killing his wife while on a cruise ship in the US state of Alaska did so because "she would not stop laughing" at him, a witness says. Kenneth Manzanares has been charged with the murder of his 39-year-old wife, whose body was found with severe head wounds in their cabin. He was detained after security agents found blood on his hands and clothes, court documents said.