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A fraudster claiming to work for the NHS injected a 92-year-old woman with a fake Covid-19 vaccine, City of London Police has said.more

A suspected human foot buried in a muddy field turned out to be a potato after a "large-scale" police search. A dog walker in Gateshead sent officers a photograph of what appeared to be a toe poking out of the soil.more

Adamo Canto, who was a member of the staff serving the British monarchy, was sentenced to eight months in prison for stealing various items belonging to the royal family from Buckingham Palace and later selling them on one of the auction platforms. As it turned out, he conducted as many as 37 sales transactions.more

Zbigniew S., wanted by the European arrest warrant, was arrested yesterday in the Netherlands. He is facing a sentence of up to 15 years in prison, and his property guarantees, in the total amount of PLN 400,000, are also forfeited, reported the website Niepodległości.more

The founder of the WikiLeaks whistleblower website, Julian Assange, will remain in prison. A British court refused to release him on bail pending a US appeal against the decision not to hand him over to the US authorities.more

Julian Assange cannot be extradited to the US to face charges of espionage and of hacking government computers, a British judge has decided.more

This morning there was an explosion in the Polish supermarket "Warszawa" in Tilburg in the south of the Netherlands. Nobody was hurt in the incident. This is the fifth explosion this month in Polish stores run by Kurds in the Netherlands, local media reported.more

The man who blew himself up on Christmas Eve in downtown Nashville, Tennessee, was a supporter of the September 11, 2001 conspiracy theories, believing in the existence of UFOs and reptilian people, according to local News Channel 5 reports.more

The body of Joanna Borucka was discovered at Pay And Sleep in Southall, west London, on Friday December 18.more

France's national police force said Thursday that three officers had been shot dead and a fourth wounded in central France. The incident took place near the village of Puy-de-Dome during the night into Wednesday. The officers were shot by a 48-year-old man as they attempted to rescue a woman amid a domestic violence incident.more

A Nottingham man who evaded police in Poland more than 20 years has been arrested in London under a European Arrest Warrant. The man, who had been living in London away from family in St Ann's, had allegedly been using fake identities to avoid police since 1999.more

A court in Norway has found two-time Olympic cross-country skiing champion Petter Northug guilty of serious traffic offenses and possession of narcotics and sentenced him to seven months in prison and a lifetime driving ban.more

Two men have been found guilty of the manslaughter of 39 Vietnamese migrants found dead in a lorry trailer in Essex.more

Police are investigating after the body of a woman was found in a suitcase in a west London hostel. Officers were called to the Pay and Sleep hostel in The Crescent, Southall, just before 3pm on Friday after the body was found.more

Criminals have blown up significantly more ATMs in Germany this year than in 2019, with federal police saying the number of incidents will likely top 400 by the end of the year.more

The National Public Prosecutor's Office brought an indictment to the court against 14 members of the drug gang that produced amphetamines in Gdańsk. Among them is a certified chemist, 68-year-old Ryszard J., pseud. Professor, hailed by the media as "the Polish Walter White".more

Police arrested Alejandro Carlson, 41, after the man reportedly got onto the tarmac at McCarran International Airport, ran up to an Alaska Airlines airplane and somehow climbed up one of the wings, the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department said. more

A man has been shot dead by police after opening fire from the steps of New York City’s Cathedral Church of St John the Divine just after an outdoor choir performance.more

The home of Italian football legend Paolo Rossi was burgled during his funeral on Saturday, Italy's ANSA news agency has reported.more

A vehicle plowed into a crowd of about 50 people at a protest on Friday afternoon in the middle of Manhattan, injuring multiple people, the New York City police department said.more

An investigation into the Wednesday explosion in a Polish store in Beverwijk near Amsterdam is underway, the Dutch police said. It added that part of the investigation was a possible link between this accident and explosions at two other Polish stores in the Netherlands.more

We expect an urgent and detailed investigation into these matters, as well as ensuring the safety of Polish citizens, said the deputy head of the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs Szymon Szynkowski vel Sęk, when asked about attacks on Polish stores in the Netherlands. He expressed his hope that this was the end of this disturbing sequence of incidents.more

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) says it has been hit by a cyber-attack and documents relating to a Covid-19 vaccine have been accessed.more

An explosion damaged a Polish supermarket in a Dutch town near Amsterdam early Wednesday morning, the third such blast in two days.more

A prosecutor who believes Madeleine McCann was killed by a German sex offender says the public would reach the same conclusion if they "knew the evidence we had".more