A father in Australia has been shot dead by police after beating and stabbing his son to death in front of horrified children at cricket practice.
Three Metropolitan police officers from the Diplomatic Protection Group have been arrested for allegedly exchanging extreme pornographic material on their smartphones.
A five-year-old girl has died after her parents allegedly forced her to drink two litres of grape soda as a punishment for taking the bottle without asking in east Tennessee, US.
A 300-year-old Stradivarius violin worth an estimated $5 million (£3 million) that was stolen in January has been recovered by police in Milwaukee.
An aristocrat has been jailed for two years, after admitting to beating his wife various times over a 22-year period.