MAN WITH 4-FOOT SWORD ARRESTED OUTSIDE BUCKINGHAM PALACE POLICE SAY

Cmdr. Dean Haydon, the head of the Metropolitan Polices counterterrorism squad, paid tribute to the officers involved... READ MORE›

SWEDEN CHARGES 5 TEENAGE REFUGEES WITH BEATING GANG-RAPING BOY FOR OVER AN HOUR

One said that he was not present during the assault, while two more admitted that they were, but claimed that their actions did not constitute rape... READ MORE›

UNPRECEDENTED SEX HARASSMENT IN HELSINKI AT NEW YEAR, FINNISH POLICE REPORT

Three sexual assaults allegedly took place at Helsinki's central railway station on New Year's Eve, where around 1,000 mostly Iraqi asylum seekers had converged... READ MORE›

SEX OFFENCES ON TRAINS AND STATIONS REACH RECORD LEVEL

The number of recorded sexual offences on trains and at stations has risen 25 percent to a record level, British Transport Police figures suggest... READ MORE›

GERMAN NEWSPAPER APOLOGISES FOR PUBLISHING FALSE ALLEGATIONS OF COLOGNE-STYLE NEW YEAR SEX ASSAULTS IN FRANKFURTA

But the police investigation found conclusively that there was no mob and that the alleged sex assaults did not take place... READ MORE›

IRAQI REFUGEE DETAINED IN GERMANY OVER RAPE & ABUSE OF 2 CHINESE STUDENTS

Police are trying to determine if he has committed other crimes, seeking tip-offs from other Iraqi refugees, Die Welt reported... READ MORE›

COLOGNE VIOLENCE SUSPECTS INCLUDE ASYLUM SEEKERS

Three were related to sexual assaults, but police had no names linked to them... READ MORE›

Watenpaugh is being held in Shasta County Jail, Redding, on charges of animal cruelty, domestic violence, false imprisonment and stalking... READ MORE›

SHOULD DOMESTIC VIOLENCE BE SPECIFIC CRIMINAL OFFENCE, ASKS LAW COMMISSION?

Should domestic violence be specific criminal offence asks law commission?... READ MORE›

2 TEENS ARRESTED IN ATTACK ON MARINE AT D.C. MCDONALDS

Christopher Marquez, a Bronze Star recipient, who served in the Marine Corps from 2003 to 2011, told police he was assaulted while eating at a McDonald's... READ MORE›

2 OTHER PEOPLE ALSO FACING CHARGES, OTTAWA POLICE SAY

Ottawa police have issued a warrant for a 19-year-old man on charges including attempted murder and aggravated assault following a stabbing on Spruce Street last week... READ MORE›

6 ANTI-MUSLIM INCIDENTS IN ONTARIO SINCE PARIS ATTACKS

There has been an uptick in reported hate crimes targeting Muslims and others in Ontario since ISIS took responsibility for the Paris attacks last week... READ MORE›

MINIMUM ALCOHOL PRICING CUTS SERIOUS CRIME, STUDY REVEALS

Imposing a minimum unit price for alcohol leads to a dramatic fall in drink-related crime, including murders, sexual assaults and drink-driving, a new study shows... READ MORE›

AL-SHABAB ATTACKS CID HEADQUARTERS IN MOGADISHU

Al-Shabab attackers set off two car bombs outside a police base in Somalia's capital before gunmen stormed inside, leaving at least 10 people dead, police said... READ MORE›

ACCUSED IN WINNIPEG TEEN'S DEATH WAS ON PROBATION AT TIME OF WEEKEND ARREST

There's no excuse for you assaulting a 16-year-old boy, Wiebe told Bell-Wright at the sentencing hearing last summer... READ MORE›

JEWISH, MUSLIM AND LGBT COMMUNITIES OPPOSE HATE-CRIME HOTLINE PLANS

Last year some of the UK's biggest police forces recorded a rise in the number of violent homophobic crimes... READ MORE›

AL-SHABAAB CLAIMS RESPONSIBILITY AS 10 DEAD AFTER GUNMEN STORM POLICE HQ

At least 10 people have been killed including four attackers in an assault on Somalia 's Criminal Investigation Department CID ... READ MORE›

'IT'S JUST NOT WORKING': EXPERTS CALL FOR ALTERNATIVES TO SEXUAL ASSAULT TRIALS

Jian Ghomeshi's high-profile trial has laid bare the way the legal system handles sexual assault trials... READ MORE›

GARDAI HUNT GANGS FOR TWO BRUTAL ASSAULTS ON YOUNG GIRLS JUST MINUTES APART

Rape offences increased by 12.5pc, while sexual assault not aggravated offences increased by 15.7pc... READ MORE›

HOW COMMON IS IT IN AUSTRALIA?

In Australia rape and sexual assault statistics are collected by state... READ MORE›

JAILING OF INDIGENOUS ASSAULT VICTIM SPARKS ANGER IN CANADA

The victim of a stabbing and sexual assault was forced to testify in shackles and handcuffed when not in court... READ MORE›

SWEDISH PRIME MINISTER REVEALS 'GREAT ANGER' OVER REPORTS OF SEX ATTACKS

Stefan Lofven speaks out after boy charged with assault at festival and police accused of withholding information about attacks... READ MORE›

GARDAI CLOSING IN ON CRIMINALS WHO SAVAGELY BEAT SISTERS AFTER FACEBOOK 'DATE'

The Rice sisters are understood to be recovering well from their ordeal, which allegedly started after they met the criminals on the social media website Facebook... READ MORE›

ORE. STUDENT ATTACKED IN POSSIBLE HATE CRIME

-- An African-American student at Lewis Clark College was assaulted by three white men who made racial slurs to the student, according to Portland police... READ MORE›

AUSTRALIA'S VICTIM-BLAMING CULTURE NEEDS TO END

It seems whenever a sexual assault victim is found to have been drinking or on drugs the offender is somehow absolved of some of their guilt... READ MORE›

WRONGLY-JAILED US MAN SPEAKS OUT AFTER RELEASE

But it emerged another man had already been convicted for the murder and was overwhelmingly linked to all the other crimes Mr Jones was accused of carrying out... READ MORE›

GANG LED BY NOTORIOUS CRIMINAL 'TRIED TO LURE GARDAI INTO PUB FOR ATTACK'

A west Dublin gang responsible for a number of attacks and assaults on gardai tried to lure officers into a pub to attack them... READ MORE›

'THE WORLDS NOT USED TO PEOPLE LIKE ME,' SEXUAL ASSAULT VICTIM SAYS IN POWERFUL POEM

Howard and 17-year-old Tanner Ward were charged as adults with felony sexual assault for forcible penetration with a foreign object... READ MORE›

DANISH MAN ARRESTED IN SOUTH AFRICA AFTER POLICE FIND WOMEN'S GENITALIA IN HIS FREEZER

The Danish citizen owns a gun shop in the city of Bloemfontein in the central Free State province, reported Volksblad, a local Afrikaans-language newspaper... READ MORE›

WOMAN ACCUSED OF STABBING DENVER FIRE CHIEF ID'D

She allegedly attacked Denver Fire Chief Eric Tade while he was parked on westbound Colfax Avenue near Speer Boulevard just after 1 30 p.m... READ MORE›