Swedish Muslim finds Muhammad in a mango

Personally I think the Divine have better things to do than graffiti our fruit....But who knows ? The Virgin Mary likes to show up on stop signs, or so I have heard. "Rubina Sheikh from Helsingborg in southern Sweden believes she’s received a message from God – in a...

Knife Crime England: London Mayor Boris Johnson Meets Victims' Relatives

LONDON mayor, Boris Johnson has today met with the relatives of knife crime victims, Robert Knox, Nassirudeen Osawe and Elliot Guy, together with representatives of the Accident & Emergency unit at King's College...

Knife crime march cuts through London

Knife crime victims and families of victims cut through the heart of London in two marches to meet up at Hyde Park. The march was over a thousand strong and got the backing of London Mayor Boris Johnson and the...

TV chef Antonio Carluccio 'stabs himself in the chest with kitchen knife'

" Celebrity chef Antonio Carluccio, is now recovering after the incident Italian TV chef Antonio Carluccio was rushed to hospital after stabbing himself in the chest with a kitchen knife.Doctors feared the blade may have penetrated a lung and took him into intensive care on...

Poet's rhyming riposte leaves Mrs Schofield 'gobsmacked'

Poet Carol Ann Duffy has been touted by some as possibly being in line to be the first ever woman British poet laureat and here we see her response to the English exam boards removing her poem 'Education for Leisure'...

70% of Stab Victims at London Hospital are Aged Between 13 and 19

70% of London's stab victims treated at a top London Accident & Emergency unit are aged thirteen to nineteen the OBSERVER has revealed.  A reporter from the paper has spent a week on the "frontline" of...

Updates: 16 Year-Old and 15 Year-Old Suspected of Separate Teenage Stabbings ...

A sixteen year-old boy has been arrested under suspicion of the murder of 16 year-old student Conor Black in Manchester two weeks ago after a party.  The youth denies responsibility. " Conor, also 16,...

Police: Gunman kills self after standoff in bank

"WHEATON, Illinois (AP) -- A gunman who took a dozen hostages in a suburban Chicago bank after wresting a gun from a police officer Friday died after shooting himself in the head, police said. ...

24th Murdered London Teenager: "CJ" Father in Impassioned Plea to Prime Min...

The grief-stricken father of tragic murdered Walthamstow teenager, Charles Hendricks, Snr, 55, whose son, Charles Junior "CJ" Hendricks,18, was stabbed by a single knife wound last month, to become England's...

Greyhound Bus Beheader Vince Li Tried to Drive Bus Away, says Witness

Long distance lorry driver Christophe Alguire has told how he witnessed the brutal killing of victim Tim Mclean, 22, on a Manitoba-bound Greyhound bus by crazed bus beheader believed to be Vince Li,...

Dad gets 18 months for forcing girl to kill cat

"MUNCIE, Indiana (AP) -- A man was sentenced to 18 months in prison after admitting that he forced his 7-year-old daughter to kill the family cat by holding a knife in her hand and making her stab the pet. "I am extremely sorry for what I did," Danield J. Collins said during...

Beckham joins battle against knife crime

David Beckham and Rio Ferdinand the English soccer superstars joined the fight against the wave of knife crime spreading across the UK. It's good to see stars like these speaking out but more fundamental changes to...

Man holds girl, 6, prisoner in ongoing siege

An explosive siege is occuring in Scarborough, UK, in which a man has taken a six-year-old girl hostage. He could be heard last night by observers shouting to police officers, "I'm going to die tonight." The standoff has now entered its third day, and police are still...

Youth sentenced to life for knife murder of schoolboy

A 16 year old was today sentenced to life in prison for murdering a 14-year-old boy. The sentence is one of the longest handed out for a youth in the UK."A 16-year-old youth was today sentenced to life for murdering the schoolboy Martin Dinnegan last June. Joseph Chin will...

Greek man held after girlfriend beheaded

"ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- A 31-year-old man killed his girlfriend on the Greek island of Santorini on Sunday, beheaded her, then fled in a patrol car, a local official said. During the ensuing chase, the suspect was shot five times by police and ran over two women doctors who...

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