A court in the southwestern German city of Landau on Monday sentenced asylum-seeker Abdul D. to eight years and six months in prison for the murder of a teenage girl in the town of Kandel in December last year. The murder had been seized upon by many opponents of Chancellor Angela Merkel's refugee policy to support their anti-immigration stance. The case has received great media attention in Germany, and many reporters were present outside the court as the verdict was announced.

Millions of American children were placed in orphanages. Some didn’t make it out alive. By Christine Kenneally.

A solicitor who was abused and murdered by his violent wife was let down by authorities, a report has found. Doctors failed to raise concerns about injuries to David Edwards, according to the domestic homicide review. Mr Edwards, 51, was stabbed through the heart by his wife Sharon at their home Chorley, Lancashire, just weeks after their Las Vegas wedding in 2015.

Twenty years after the murder of 11-year-old Nicky Verstappen in Brunssummerheide, the Dutch authorities managed to identify a suspect. The suspect is 55-year-old Jos Brech from Simpelveld. The police do not know where he is at this time, and placed him on the national wanted list on Wednesday. An European arrest warrant was also issued for the man, according to NU.nl's live blog of the press conference on this breakthrough in Maastricht on Wednesday.

Authorities on Thursday discovered three bodies they believe to be a missing Colorado woman and her two young daughters, officials said. Police are working to confirm their identities. Shanann Watts, who was 15 weeks pregnant, was reported missing Monday along with her two daughters, Bella, 4, and Celeste, 3. Her husband, Chris Watts, was taken into custody Wednesday night and is being held in the Weld County Jail, north of Denver, the Frederick Police Department said in a statement.

A Colorado man has been arrested after allegedly confessing to killing his pregnant wife and two daughters. According to ABC affiliate KMGH, law enforcement officials said 33-year-old Christopher Watts confessed to killing 34-year-old Shanann Watts, who was 15 weeks pregnant, and their two daughters, 3-year-old Celeste and 4-year-old Bella, just hours after pleading for them to return home.

"Evil is a make-believe concept we've invented to deal with the complexities of fellow humans." An idealistic young American couple was killed in an Islamic State-claimed terrorist attack last month while on a cycling trip around the world. Jay Austin and Lauren Geoghegan, both 29, last year quit their office jobs in Washington, DC, to embark on the journey. Austin, a vegan who worked for the US Department of Housing and Urban Development, and Geoghegan, a vegetarian who worked in the Georgetown University admissions office, decided that they're were wasting their lives working.

Two American cyclists who were among four killed by Islamic State terrorists in Tajikistan had quit their jobs to ride around the world, their families revealed today. Lauren Geoghegan and Jay Austin, both 29, were a year into their dream adventure when they were run over by men in a car and then stabbed to death in the Central Asian country. Mr Austin had earlier written in a blog that the journey had taught him that humans were “generous and wonderful and kind”.

An Afghan man has been accused of strangling to death a nine-year-old girl who was forcibly given to him by her family as a child bride to pay off a debt. News of the murder emerged a day after figures were published in a joint report between the UN children’s agency, Unicef, and the Afghan ministry of labour, social affairs, martyrs and the disabled, suggesting that more than one in three Afghan girls were still being married off before the age of 18.

In a decade that has seen countless horrific images of war, never has one shown soldiers from a military that benefits from American support carry out such a heartless and heart-rending act. A video that went viral last month showed men identified as troops from the U.S.-backed army of Cameroon, but accompanied by other men not in uniform, lead two women down a dirt road. One woman has an infant, perhaps a year old, tied to her back in a traditional African wrap and clinging to her sides. The other woman leads a little girl by the hand who could not be older than six.

A woman has been arrested and charged with first degree murder after a 6-month-old baby was kidnapped and found severely burned an hour later. Twenty-five-year-old Felicia Marie-Nicole Smith has been charged with first degree murder of Levi Cole Ellerbe. Ellerbe’s mother told the Natchitoches Police Department that the men banged on the door of her trailer around 9 p.m. on July 17.

Police say a Florida man will face no charges for shooting another man dead in a parking lot after an argument last week. Protesters gathered Sunday at the scene of the shooting in response. Last Thursday, Markeis McGlockton parked in a handicap spot with his girlfriend and three young kids before going inside a convenience store with his five-year-old son to buy snacks.

A murder investigation in a peaceful golf community in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, has come to a bizarre conclusion. Now, police say a 71-year-old man who was found shot to death in the community in late January wasn't killed at all. He actually killed himself -- in a very unusual way.

A judge on Friday sentenced a Gardena man to 286 years to life in prison for murdering a woman and raping several others during videotaped, bondage-style sexual encounters in South Bay motel rooms and his one-time Riverside County bedroom. Kevon Takashi Ross, 33, kept his face hidden behind a sheet of paper for much of an emotionally raw sentencing hearing, avoiding looking at his victims, their family members or a Los Angeles Superior Court judge. The judge described the proceedings as the most difficult trial he has ever witnessed.

Mariah Lopez, of Huntsville, was killed after she saw two men stab to death her grandmother, Oralia Mendoza, officials said.

The US government has reopened an investigation into the 1955 murder of a black 14-year-old boy whose death galvanised the civil rights movement. A Department of Justice (DOJ) report states the agency had received "new information" about the Emmett Till case, but offered no further details. Till was murdered in Mississippi after a white woman accused him of making lewd remarks and touching her.

Lured by friends, then raped and murdered. Those are the new allegations in the murder of 16-year-old Ben Eastman. Two brothers were just charged, days after police found the teen's body in a shallow grave on their family's property in Randle. Jonathan Adamson,21 and younger brother Benny Marquez, 16, walked into court on Monday and faced a courtroom full of family and friends of the boy. In the front row, waiting to face the brothers sat Ben's father, Benjamin Eastman.

A healthcare professional has been arrested on suspicion of murdering eight babies and attempting to kill six others at a hospital. Cheshire Police said the woman's arrest was a significant step forward in an investigation into deaths at the Countess of Chester Hospital. Officers have been investigating the deaths of 17 newborns at the neonatal unit between March 2015 and July 2016.

A three-year-old girl has died after a mass stabbing occurred at her birthday party in Boise Saturday. Boise Police say the girl was flown to Utah for treatment of injuries she received in Saturday night’s attack. "It is with deep sorrow we share the news that she has passed away today," Boise Police said in a statement. One child has been treated and released from the hospital according to police.

Two Southeast Asian women on trial for killing the estranged half brother of North Korea’s leader are trained assassins who used “criminal force” to rub the toxic VX nerve agent on Kim Jong Nam’s eyes and face, prosecutors said in their closing arguments Thursday.