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The killer of London headteacher Philip Lawrence is to be freed within days after being granted parole. Learco Chindamo stabbed Mr Lawrence to death outside St George’s Roman Catholic School in Maida Vale in December […] […]

ACCLAIMED Russian pianist and conductor Mikhail Vasillievich Pletnev has been charged with raping a 14-year-old boy in a Thai beach town. Pletnev, the founder of the Russian National Orchestra, was charged yesterday with rape and […] […]

CHINO, Calif.—The aging inmate, her face wrinkled with time and her gray hair drawn in a bun, listened as her lawyer argued that the Leslie Van Houten seated before the parole board is a changed […] […]

Bastian Schweinsteiger did not exactly smash down the door and shout, like a bar-room bully, “bring on Spain”, but he is not a young man to equivocate on or off the field. The question was […] […]

GENEVA, Switzerland (AP) — Usain Bolt will run in the 100 metres instead of the 200 at the Athletissima meeting in Lausanne, Switzerland, this week. Organisers say the Olympic and world champion switched to the […] […]

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — The Netherlands turned on the style in the second half to reach its third World Cup final — and first in 32 years — with a 3-2 victory over […] […]

FUGITIVE British killer Raoul Moat has “declared war” on police, vowing to keep on killing officers until he dies. The steroid-addicted bouncer compared himself to cartoon character The Hulk and vowed to continue his homicidal […] […]

A teenager died in hospital today two days after he was chased and stabbed by a group of youths on bicycles in east London. The 16-year-old, who has not been named, suffered stab wounds during […] […]

A four-year-old girl has told a jury she was raped by a 16-year-old boy as she played in a park. The little girl, who gave evidence via a video link at Huntingdon Crown Court, said […] […]

LONDON—British police surrounded a picturesque village in northeast England on Tuesday as they closed in on a fugitive wanted for murder who has been on the run for four days. Police also arrested two men […] […]