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WITH MORE MULTIPLE MURDERERS PER CAPITA THAN ANY OTHER COUNTRY ON THE PLANET, THE US HAS EARNED A BLOODY REPUTATION AS GROUND ZERO FOR SERIAL KILLERS

Women hurled rotten vegetables and the contents of chamber pots from upstairs windows. Paving stones were prised loose to block the roads, while an overturned builder’s lorry became a barricade. Child

Minneapolis, Minnesota School shooting: An eight-year-old boy and ...

In the impoverished island nation of Haiti, where gangs have largely supplanted the government, ordinary life has descended into a cycle of kidnapping, rape and murder. Louise Callaghan travels to the capital, Port-au-Prince, and meets some of the victims

When gossip and rumour led to the trial of two Prussian pastors

There were 13 men: unlucky for someone. They were dressed to kill – but so was everyone else. In what was essentially an army camp, crammed with armed men, the assailants blended right in. Moving casu