3 h. ago Police arrest man accused of pressuring US teen to kill himself online

The man is suspected of committing 120 crimes against eight victims, ages 11 to 15

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19 h. ago Police say a German man engaged in cybergrooming and pressured a US teen to kill himself

A 20-year-old man has been arrested in Germany on suspicion of engaging in an online campaign of cybergrooming and virtual sexual abuse of children

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6 d. ago Aldi shoppers say same thing about 'humiliating' bag policy after checkout

Customers of the German supermarket chain Aldi have hit out at a bag search policy, claiming it is 'annoying' and 'humiliating' – but the company claims participation is 'optional' and explained why they do it

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9 d. ago Madeleine McCann: New evidence found in Christian Brueckner lair

Christian Brueckner was revealed to be the chief suspect in the case of Madeleine McCann's disappearance with German police examining evidence from his property

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1 week ago Inside the abandoned buildings where police held new search for Madeleine McCann

German and Portuguese police teams searched scrubland near where Madeleine disappeared

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1 week ago Madeleine McCann police 'found something they were looking for' says detective

A detective who was brought in to help find Madeleine McCann, has said he is "convinced" that German police have found important evidence

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1 week ago Is this the end of the road in the hunt for Madeleine McCann? How the desperate new search unfolded in Portugal

After a three-day search effort drew to a close without any sign of a breakthrough, crime correspondent Amy-Clare Martin reports from Praia da Luz on the latest attempt to give the McCann family answers

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1 week ago Madeleine McCann suspect makes sick taunt in letter about police investigation as German paedophile's prison release date draws closer

Madeleine McCann suspect Christian Brueckner has disturbingly taunted police in a new sickening letter about the toddler's disappearance as his prison release date looms closer.

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1 week ago ‘Every parent’s nightmare’: after 18 years, was this the final search for Madeleine McCann?

As visitors pose for selfies in the Portuguese resort where the British child disappeared, a breakthrough seems further away than everThe police have packed up, the diggers and radar scanners gone from the Algarve scrubland. The latest search for Madeleine McCann, the British toddler who vanished from a Portuguese holiday apartment 2007, has ended quietly without any apparent breakthrough.After 18 years of intermittent searches, this one, led by German police, may well be the last. In Praia da Luz, a seaside town etched into the world’s memory by the tragedy, that realisation lands with a mix of relief and weariness. Locals barely speak about the case now, if at all. The McCann investigation brought an unrelenting glare of media attention that many here would prefer to forget. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Wild Madeleine McCann theory claims she was 'killed by drink drivers and thrown in sea'

'German prosecutors were asked to authorise a covert police operation with someone posing as a friend of the woman’s and trying to get her to confess, but the courts refused,' a source claimed

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1 week ago German police brand search for Madeleine McCann a 'waste of time' as sources claim three

Rainer Grimm, boss of the BKA, Germany's equivalent of the FBI, is in Portugal overseeing the search which ended yesterday.

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1 week ago Madeleine McCann search called off after just three days as police pack up

German and Portuguese police began searching properties on Tuesday.

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1 week ago Inside abandoned Madeleine McCann search farmhouse as new 'evidence' found

In what is understood to be the most significant search operation since 2008, German police are scouring the area of Praia da Luz in search of missing Madeleine McCann, with fresh evidence leading them to lonely abandoned farm buildings

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2 w. ago Madeleine McCann search development that police hope will end 18

A development in the search for Madeleine McCann has seen German police officers head to Portugal to scour buildings and land in a bid to bring an end to the 18-year hunt

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2 w. ago Madeleine McCann update as police continue search of Portugal farmhouse for 'potential evidence'

The new search is being carried out on the request of the German federal police alongside Portuguese police

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2 w. ago Madeleine McCann search latest as police find 'potential evidence' in Portugal farmhouse

The new search for Madeleine McCann is being carried out at the request of the German federal police

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2 w. ago Madeleine McCann 'evidence' found in abandoned houses by search teams

German and Portuguese police have been searching abandoned properties near Praia Da Luz in Portugal, where Madeleine went missing 18 years ago.

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2 w. ago 'Drug smuggling' mum arrested at German airport after police spot 'red flag'

Cameron Bradford is the fifth young British woman to be detained abroad facing drugs charges in recent months.

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2 w. ago Former Portuguese detective says new search for Madeleine McCann is over the top and German police 'have got nothing' on Christian Brueckner as hunt for clues continues

The ex-detective accused his own former police force of 'connivance' with 'shoddy' German cops in a foul-mouthed blast 24 hours after the start of a fresh operation to find Maddie's body

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2 w. ago Watch live: Madeleine McCann police search continues in Portugal

Watch live as Portuguese and German police continue their search for Madeleine McCann in the Algarve, Portugal.

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