1 week ago Child among five killed as plane transporting patients crashes off Texas

Mexico's Navy said the plane was helping with a medical mission with the Michou and Mau Foundation

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1 week ago Man charged with 56 sex offences including multiple counts of rape against ex

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2 w. ago Twisted Jeffrey Epstein timeline from pervert teaching to final days in jail

Billionaire paedophile Jeffrey Epstein was found dead in his New York prison cell in 2019 as he awaited trial for multiple sex trafficking charges, including abusing girls as young as 14

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2 w. ago French doctor who poisoned dozens of patients killing 12 of them is jailed for life with prosecutors calling him 'one of the greatest criminals in history'

A French court on Thursday sentenced a doctor to life in jail for poisoning 30 child and adult patients, 12 of whom died, in an alleged attempt to discredit co-workers.

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2 w. ago Freezing Point by Anders Bodelsen review – a prescient classic of cryogenics

This resurrected Danish novel about a man who is ‘frozen down’, awaking in an Orwellian dystopia two decades later, is inventive, funny and all too timelyIn the Danish author’s uncannily prescient novel, first published in 1969, the year is 1973 and Bruno works as a fiction editor for a popular weekly magazine; his talent for generating story ideas makes him indispensable to his authors. Invited for dinner at the home of one of them, Bruno finds himself seated next to a woman named Jenny, a struggling ballet dancer with a gloomy aspect and no sense of humour. Bruno is drawn to her nonetheless, and finds himself inventing stories about her. The following day, he is admitted to hospital to undergo tests: a small lump on the side of his neck has raised some concerns. Bruno cannot help feeling the two events are somehow connected.It comes as little surprise to Bruno when he learns he has cancer. The doctor in charge of his case, Josef Ackerman, offers a choice: he can either undergo the...

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3 w. ago Male nurse, 32, accused of sex attacks on patients under anaesthetic

The 32-year-old intensive care and anaesthesia nurse is accused of multiple sex attacks on patients in Germany, including one as young as 14 years old, with most of his victims said to be unconscious

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3 w. ago Surgeon, 32, is charged with forcing crushed abortion pills into his girlfriend's mouth while she was sleeping

Hassan-James, Abbas, an Ohio surgeon, has been indicted after allegedly forcing crushed abortion pills into his sleeping pregnant girlfriend's mouth.

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3 w. ago Revealed: NHS doctor charged with sexually abusing 38 patients in his care including children is devoutly Christian father

Nathaniel Spencer, 38, of Quinton, Birmingham , is accused of targeting his alleged victims while working at hospitals in the West Midlands and Staffordshire between 2017 and 2021.

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3 w. ago Revealed: NHS doctor charged with sexually abusing 38 patients in his care including children is devoutly Christian Polish father

Nathaniel Spencer, 38, of Quinton, Birmingham , is accused of targeting his alleged victims while working at hospitals in the West Midlands and Staffordshire between 2017 and 2021.

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4 w. ago Doctor charged with sex offences against 38 patients including 13

Nathaniel Spencer, 38, allegedly carried out the offences between 2017 and 2021 at Royal Stoke University Hospital in Stoke-on-Trent, and Russells Hall Hospital in Dudley

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4 w. ago Former doctor charged with dozens of sexual assaults against patients, including children

The former doctor will appear at North Staffordshire Justice Centre on 20 January 2026

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4 w. ago Former doctor charged with sexual assaults against 38 patients in his care

Nathaniel Spencer, from Birmingham, is accused of 45 offences, including some against children under 13A former doctor has been charged with carrying out sexual assaults against 38 people who were patients in his care.Nathaniel Spencer, from Birmingham, is accused of dozens of acts of sexual assault, some of them against children younger than 13, between 2017 and 2021. Continue reading...

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4 w. ago Doctor, 38, is charged with multiple sex attacks against adult and child patients

Nathaniel Spencer, of Quinton, Birmingham, has been charged with dozens of sex attacks between 2017 and 2021.

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4 w. ago Former doctor charged with 38 sexual assaults against patients

The former doctor will appear at North Staffordshire Justice Centre on 20 January 2026

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4 w. ago Former Royal Stoke University Hospital doctor charged with 45 sexual offences

A former hospital doctor has been hit with 45 charges, including sexual assault against a child, following a 'complex' police investigation

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4 w. ago Serial killer imprisoned women as sex slaves and forced them to eat victims' bodies

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT Gary Michael Heidnik, who was known as the 'Butcher of Philadelphia', was a serial rapist and murderer who kept multiple women as sex slaves in his basement torture chamber

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4 w. ago Married teacher of the month 'had sex with pupil in backseat of her Jeep'

Art teacher Nicole Hernandez, 30, allegedly groomed her pupil and had sex with him multiple times after grooming and telling him that her "marriage was struggling"

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