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A missing one-year-old girl identified as Pornsiri Wongsilarung and also known by her nickname Gina, has been found alive in a cave where an alleged kidnapper took her to sacrifice her to forest spirits. 44-year-old Siew reportedly abducted Pornsiri from outside the family home in a remote village in Chiang Mai province of Thailand on Sunday afternoon September 5. At the time of the disappearance of the minor who was playing in front of their house, her mother Malee Pasee, 23 was cooking in the kitchen and her father Suriya Wongsilaruang, 43, was taking rubbish to a tip around two miles from their home.  She was discovered missing after her mother finished cooking but did not hear a response. Neighbours said they last saw Pornsiri walking on the road around 10 metres away from home. More than 200 police officers, rescue workers and volunteers searched through nearby homes and woodland for the missing girl. Sniffer dogs, aerial search drones and a diving team were also looking for G...

A 28-year-old South African man, Mukhethwa Tshivhase, has allegedly killed his mother with a broomstick because she 'hid their food in her room'  The suspect, a resident of Matangari-Tshiumoni village appeared in the Thohoyandou Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday, September 7, on a charge of murder.  Limpopo regional spokesperson for the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) Mashudu Malabi-Dzhangi said the incident occurred in the early hours of Sunday, September 5.  He said that the deceased, Caroline Tshivhangwaho Khomola,58, was asleep when her son came home and demanded food from his mother. According to Malabi-Dzhangi, Tshivhase started accusing his mother of hiding their food in her bedroom. He allegedly became so angry that he picked up a broomstick and started assaulting his mother with it. The mother tried to run away but collapsed at the gate. She was taken to Donald Fraser Hospital, where she was certified dead on arrival. Limpopo police spokesperson Brigadier Motlaf...

Donna and Vanner Johnson jokingly decided to do the DNA test last year as they thought it would be a fun thing to do as a family. But they didn't expect the results to turn their lives totally upside down Speaking to ABC4, the couple, from Utah, USA, explained how they had conceived their 12-year-old son through IVF. However, it was only when they received the results from the test that they found out Vanner wasn't the boy's biological father. Recalling the moment he saw the papers, Vanner said: "When I looked on that page and saw mum for him and father unknown, I thought 'what do you mean father unknown?' "I am his father." After contacting the clinic where they'd received their IVF treatment, it was confirmed that Donna's egg had been fertilised with a stranger's sperm. The dad continued: "There were a lot of emotions we had to work through including separating the love of our son which has not changed. "This mistake that happe...

 A two-year-old boy has died after he was forgotten inside a hot car for three hours by his babysitter. Arthur Oliveira dos Santos was being looked after by babysitter Glaucia Aparecida Luiz, 35, who reportedly ran an "unauthorised daycare centre" in her home in Sao Paulo, Brazil, police said. According to police statement, Arthur was tragically forgotten and spent the afternoon in a boiling hot car under the scorching sun, outside the suspect's home. Officers rushed to the scene on Wednesday, August 25, after the boy was discovered, The news reports. They rushed the boy to the hospital but he was confirmed dead on arrival. It is thought the child died of suffocation and dehydration, but an autopsy to confirm the exact cause of death will be taking place soon. Police say the suspect and her daughter took care of more than 10 children in their home and described it as an "irregular daycare centre". The babysitter has been arrested on suspicion of murder and curre...

A jealous wife allegedly screwed an engineering nut onto her husband's penis when she found out he had been cheating on her. The woman, who lives in Zaporozhye, Ukraine, with her husband, reportedly carried out the act while her husband slept as a way to "avenge the betrayal." As a result, the man's manhood swelled up to the point where he was no longer able to remove the nut. He had to be rushed to the hospital for treatment. Doctors at the 5th City Hospital tried to remove the nut from the man's penis, but failed. They were then left with no option other than to perform surgery to remove the nut. Deputy Chief of Cobra, Eduard Nekhoroshev, said that medics called in the use of special tools, like an angle grinder, to perform the gruesome removal. Eventually, rescuers were able to cut off the nut by carefully slicing the large nut on opposite sides so it fell off. The man remained in hospital under medical supervision following the operation.

A US drone strike carried out overnight, Saturday August 28, has killed an Islamic State "planner", two days after the group claimed a deadly bombing outside Kabul airport. Among the 92 killed in Thursday's suicide blast, claimed by Afghanistan's Islamic State affiliate, were 13 U.S. service members, the most lethal incident for U.S. troops in Afghanistan in a decade. According to the Pentagon, there were no civilian casualties from the strike and US forces were prepared for more attacks from ISIS even as they continue to airlift people out of the war torn Taliban controlled Afghanistan. "Initial indications are that we killed the target. We know of no civilian casualties," the U.S. military said in a statement, referring to the overnight drone strike. U.S. Central Command said the strike took place in Nangarhar province, east of Kabul and bordering Pakistan. It did not say whether the target was connected with the airport attack. According to Reuters, resid...

  A California parole board on Friday, August 27, voted to release from prison Sirhan Sirhan, the man convicted of sh*oting d*ad Robert F. Kennedy in a 1968 a*sas*ination that rocked the United States. This comes after RFK’s two sons went against several of their siblings’ wishes and said they supported releasing him and prosecutors declined to argue he should be kept behind bars, AP News reports. Douglas Kennedy was a toddler when his father was g*nned down in 1968. He told a two-person board panel that he was moved to tears by Sirhan’s remorse and that the 77-year-old should be released if he’s not a threat to others. Born March 19, 1944, Sirhan is a Palestinian militant who was found guilty of a*sas*inating the New York Senator and brother of slain president John F Kennedy in a Los Angeles hotel on June 5, 1968.  Robert F. Kennedy was campaigning for the Democratic presidential nomination to follow in the family footsteps when he was g*nned down. His m*rder came just months...

A woman has shown off her extreme cheek fillers and it has left people shocked.  Anastasiia Pokreshchuk, 32, from Kiev, Ukraine, appeared on ITV's This Morning show and revealed that she has spent over £1,600 by injecting her own cheeks with hyaluronic filler. Despite admitting that it is dangerous, she described herself as a "beautiful monster". She added that she "looked like a mouse" before the dramatic procedures. She said: "I didn't like my face. I didn't like my cheeks and I wanted them higher. "I don't want to look like anyone else, I am who I am." This Morning host, Eamonn then asked: "Do you like looking like a hamster?" Anastasiia said she did and said that she was a Psychology graduate who knows that her look is "extraordinary". "I describe myself as a beautiful monster," she said.  Viewers were left stunned and took to Twitter to comment, with one tweeting: "This is so sad they must have s...

A teen girl in Louisiana and two others were shot dead while filming a viral crate challenge video on social media. The crate challenge has become a viral challenge, with a number of people trying it and posting their result on social media. At about 5:30pm on Sunday, while some young people were filming their crate challenge outside Linwood Public Charter School in Shreveport, Louisiana, shooting erupted. 19-year-old Paris King was among the victims killed while filming the milk crate challenge video. Video footage shows a man attempting to climb a milk crate pyramid just as gunfire breaks out. "Get my gun, get my gun!" one man shouted. Another man shouted "Where my baby?" It is unclear if the man doing the crate challenge survived the shooting. Initial reports were that two people were shot outside the school. First responders found Paris King shot dead in the backseat of a car at the scene. A police spokesman told NewsWeek that a man tried to drive away after the...

On Wednesday, August 18, Pope Francis accepted the resignation of Bishop Tomé Ferreira da Silva, who oversaw a diocese in Sao Paulo state, Sao Jose do Rio Preto. According to reports, Bishop Tome had been under investigation by the Vatican for other accusations, including allegedly ignoring reports of sexual abuse in his diocese since 2015. The Vatican, the Brazilian bishops' conference, and Ferreira's home diocese all announced the resignation but provided no details if the bishop was the man in the video. The person in the video resembles Ferreira, and local paper Diario da Regiao reported that in a short interview Ferreira confirmed it is his image, without providing further detail. Local news network Globo reported in 2018 that the Sao Jose do Rio Preto diocese was the target of a Vatican investigation into whether Ferreira ignored reports of abuse, and had exchanged sexual messages with an adolescent. At the time, he cited personal reasons while stepping down as regional c...

An Indiana baby reported missing by her parents after they left her with a relative to get a break, has been found dead, officials said. The body of 11-month-old Mercedes Lain was found in a densely wooded area on Wednesday night, August 18, after days of searching for her in rural northern Indiana, US, according to the FBI. Justin Miller, 37, the person responsible for caring for the baby, was arrested and charged with neglect of a dependent resulting in death. In a probable cause affidavit obtained by WSBT, a Plymouth police officer wrote that Mercedes’ parents, Kenneth Lain and Tiffany Coburn, said they left their daughter with Miller, a relative, on Friday so they "could have a break" but he hadn’t returned her on Sunday, August 15. Officials have not confirmed whether the parents are related to Miller. On Sunday, August 15, Miller told investigators Lain had contacted him about buying synthetic marijuana and Lain began talking about the "rough time" he and Cobu...

The Greek man said he killed his British wife, Crouch, 20, after she vowed to leave him and take their baby with her. Babis Anagnostopoulos, 33, admitted to suffocating her to death after more than eight hours of interrogation in the homicide department of Athens' police headquarters. Babis, a helicopter pilot, had claimed that Albanian criminals broke into his home on Tuesday, May 11, 2021, blindfolded him, tied him up, then beat his wife and strangled her to death. He added that the killers went off with 15,000 Euros in real money and other valuables. He even granted interviews, pretending to be a grieving husband for over a month. Even after his wife was buried in May, he continued in the pretense. At his wife's funeral, Babis looked mournful as he carried their daughter. In a moving eulogy, an emotional Babis said: "I was very lucky that I knew Caroline and that she loved me. I was very lucky for all the moments we shared. Cops spent weeks searching for the non-existen...

A mother has been arrested on suspicion of murder after she allegedly dropped her screaming daughter off a balcony and the girl died. Anna Ruzankina, 23, dangled her three-year-old daughter Anastasia off the balcony as a punishment for crying, say police in Russia. In harrowing video, Anastasia was heard begging her mother as she was dangled over the balcony. The girl cried: "Mama, I am scared. I am scared, scared, scared…..I am scared." Shortly after, she fell 60ft to her death.  The footage captures the final moment of her fall before she hits the ground.  Ruzankina then retrieved the dead girl and CCTV footage then captures her holding her in the lift as she took her body back up to the family’s sixth-floor flat in Saratov, reports Life News. She shakes the lifeless child as if trying to revive her.  Local media reports said the mother had been holding the screaming girl by her T-shirt over the balcony edge but her shirt tore and she fell. The incident came after Ruzan...

Police have confirmed that the body of a little girl found in a bag 3,000ft below sea off Tenerife, Spain is a missing six-year-old kidnapped by her dad. Olivia Gimeno was identified after an autopsy was carried out on a body found inside a sports bag on the seabed near Port of Guimar, Spain. Spanish rescuers found the bag tied down to an anchor 1,000m below the surface. The hunt for the Olivia's younger sister, Anna, 1 (pictured below) is still ongoing. Beatriz Zimmerman, the mother of the two girls, has been informed of the discovery. Police say her ex Tomas Antonio Gimeno, 37, disappeared with the girls on April 27 after failing to return them to their home in Santa Cruz, Tenerife's capital. A spokesman for Spanish police said: “The body was found by a robot from the search vessel Angeles Alvarino at midday [yesterday] around 1,000 metres below the water some three miles off the Tenerife coast. “It was inside a sports bag attached to an anchor. Next to it was another empty s...

A 28-year-old man on trial for slapping French President Emmanuel Macron testified on Thursday June 10, that the attack was impulsive and unplanned, and prompted by anger at France's “decline.” Damien Tarel faces possible jail time and a fine if found guilty of assaulting a public official at the special emergency trial in the southeastern city of Valence. Tarel was immediately arrested after the incident which occurred as the French leader was greeting a crowd in the region on Tuesday. The man acknowledged hitting the president with a “rather violent” slap. “When I saw his friendly, lying look, I felt disgust, and I had a violent reaction," he told the court. "It was an impulsive reaction... I was surprised myself by the violence.” While he said he and his friends had considered bringing an egg or a cream pie to throw at the president, he said they dropped the idea — and insisted that the slap wasn't premeditated. “I think that Emmanuel Macron represents the decline ...

We’ve not committed that big a crime’- Grooming gang member who got 13 year old girl pregnant & trafficked 15 year old says A member of a notorious UK grooming gang who got a 13-year-old girl pregnant and trafficked a 15-year-old claims he hasn’t “committed that big a crime”. Pakistanis Adil Khan, 51 and Qari Abdul Rauf, 52, have been told by the UK government they are to be sent back to Patheir country after both were part of a gang convicted of a long list of serious sex offences against young girls in Rochdale, UK. Khan got a girl, 13, pregnant but denied he was the father then met another girl, 15, and trafficked her to others using violence when she complained. He was sentenced to eight years in 2012 and released on licence four years later. Khan, Rauf and two others, were among nine Asian men convicted of sex offences against vulnerable girls in 2012. For two years from early 2008, girls as young as 12 were plied with alcohol and drugs and gang-raped in rooms above takeaway s...

The now-suspended Virginia Tech football player is being charged with second-degree murder for beating his Tinder date to death after he discovered the woman named 'Angie' he's had oral s3x with was actually a man. Ismemen David Etute, 18, a Nigerian-American based was charged with the death of Blacksburg restaurant manager Jerry Paul Smith after allegedly punching and stomping the 40-year-old multiple times on May 31. Etute matched with Smith on Tinder but Smith's profile indicated he was a woman named 'Angie,' Etute's attorney James Turk said. Surveillance football from Smith's apartment captured Etute visiting him on May 31, the night Smith was beaten to death The two first met April 10 for oral s3x, during which Etute was still under the impression Smith was a woman, Montgomery County Commonwealth’s Attorney Mary Pettitt told the Montgomery County General District Court during a bond hearing on Wednesday morning.   Turk told our correspondence that S...

In a bid to warn others against crimes, Cheshire Police displayed digitally aged images of gangster twins to show the public how old they'll look when they finish their jail sentences. Authorities toured the giant billboard around Warrington over the weekend showing the pictures of siblings Leon and Anthony Cullen, 33, in a bid to show the risks of crime. They hope the digitally aged images of the gang bosses, who have been jailed for a combined total of 50 years, will serve as a warning to others.  Leon and Anthony are behind bars serving 22 years and 27 years respectively after leading notorious firearms and cocaine gang, which was the biggest ever uncovered in Cheshire. Cheshire Police's Det Chief Insp Mike Evans said they hope the 'aged' images will make others ask if crime 'really worth it', rather than having young people 'look up to them'. He continued: 'People may think it's a quick and easy way to earn money to lead a lavish lifestyle bu...

 Girl, 12, raped and stabbed to death by paedophile, 49, after he spotted her as she walked home from school Sergey Matyushin, 49, is said to have followed Anastasia Guzhvina, 12, for several days before attacking her in the village of Bolshoe Kozino in Russia’s Nizhny Novgorod region. Reports say Matyushin spotted the girl when he was cycling around the village while searching for a victim. The next few days he followed Anastasia, studying the path she was taking home from school. On May 13, the man allegedly attacked the child in the woods, raped her and stabbed her to death with a knife. The victims’ body was discovered several hours later after she was reported missing. Forensics said she died from multiple knife wounds inflicted on her neck. Police interviewed villagers and learned about a male stranger, who was seen riding a bicycle not far from the scene. The man, captured by local CCTV cameras, was identified and found the next day after the crime. During police interrogati...

A bride had to marry a wedding guest after her groom suddenly disappeared from the ceremony in the state of Uttar Pradesh in India. The Tribune reported that the incident took place on Monday, May 16,  in the town of Maharajpur, in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. According to the news outlet, the couple had just completed their jaimala, or exchange of garlands, when the groom went missing. At the time, their families were getting ready for the main ceremony. After a search by the bride’s family, they concluded that the groom did not just disappear, but intentionally fled the scene. Following several deliberations, the bride then tied the knot with one of the baraatis, a member of the marriage party from the groom’s side whose family also agreed to marrying him off to the woman. After the ceremony, the bride’s family reportedly lodged a complaint against the groom and his family.  An official later released a statement on the matter:  "We have received a complaint in t...