Charlize Theron says she's "not ashamed" to talk about the moment her mum shot and killed her dad in self-defence.
The actress was 15 when her alcoholic dad shot through the door of the room where she was hiding with her mum.more
As much as 57 percent Poles have experienced one form of violence in their lives: psychological, physical, economic or sexual. 72% respondents agree with the thesis that the law does not sufficiently protect victims of domestic violence. Such conclusions can be drawn from the Kantar study commissioned by the family ministry, "Dziennik Gazeta Prawna reports.more
The Crime Prevention Board, which reports to the Swedish Ministry of Justice, manipulated data in its reports to cover up the scale of immigrant crime, writes the daily Goeteborgs-Posten.more
The Pope has declared that the rule of "pontifical secrecy" no longer applies to the sexual abuse of minors, in a bid to improve transparency in such cases.more
An Italian vulcanizer scattered nails in the streets to get as many customers as possible for his workshop. Carabinieri caught him in the act and kept him at night with 6 kilos of nails in a bag.more
As Tamara Ecclestone comes to terms with losing £50 million worth of jewellery after her home was burgled, she's got all biblical about what happened to her.
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The Italian Supreme Court yesterday retained 16 years imprisonment for the perpetrator of the assault on two Polish tourists in Rimini - Congolese Guerlin Butung. The court rejected his appeal against the judgment.more
Rome Mayor Virginia Raggi was among the signatories of a protocol inked on Tuesday granting financial incentives to shops in the capital that leave their lights on when they are closed. The aim is to boost security in the city by improving lighting at nighttime.more
Six people, including a police officer and three bystanders, were killed in a gun battle on Tuesday that filled the streets of Jersey City, New Jersey, with the sound of heavy gunfire for hours, authorities said.more
Banksy's newest reindeer mural appears to have been vandalised days after it appeared in Birmingham's Jewellery Quarter. The vandal added red noses to the reindeer on Monday night.more
Aman killed when he has hit by a car while out walking his dog in Surrey has been named in Russian media as an oligarch, as a friend claimed he was deliberately targeted. more
Six people were killed and two others were seriously injured in a shooting at Ostrava City Hospital in the north-east of the Czech Republic near the Polish border, according to Czech police. more
Russian billionaire multi-millionaire, 49, dwelling in Britain is mysteriously killed in break involving three autos while walking his dog in Surrey.more
Four people have been killed in South Florida after two armed jewelry thieves hijacked a UPS truck along with its driver and led cops on a high-speed 25-mile pursuit that ended when the vehicle got stuck in traffic Thursday afternoon.more
Bomb squad officers in Madrid have carried out a controlled explosion after a practice hand grenade was thrown over the wall of a centre for unaccompanied foreign minors in the north-east of the Spanish capital.more
629 women and girls from Pakistan were sold as brides to China, reports AP today. The agency received a list of aggrieved women from Pakistani investigators who decided to break the networks of human traffickers using the poor and defenseless, including Christians.more
In Polish prisons, over 5,000 people are serving sentences for non-payment of maintenance; almost another 900 are sentenced in the electronic supervision system.more
Police investigating the death of a 12-year-old boy who was hit by a car outside a school in a suspected hit and run on Monday have arrested a 51-year-old man on suspicion of murder.more
