Two girls, thought to be only seven or eight years old, conducted a double suicide attack in a northeastern Nigerian market on Sunday, killing one person and wounding 18.The attack in Maiduguri was not immediately claimed by Boko Haram but bore the hallmarks of the jihadist group which often uses women or girls in such operations.Borno state governor Kashim Shettima visited the victims in hospital

A UPS delivery driver helped rescue a woman held captive in her own home after she gave him a note asking him to call police.The woman, from Franklin County in Missouri, answered the door to the driver and handed him a package with the message 'Contact 911' written on it.Local media reported that the woman was being held against her will by her husband.She later told police that he beat and sexual

A mother has given birth to her own grandson after stepping in as a surrogate for her daughter.Julie Bradford, 45, carried her grandson Jack for daughter Jessica Jenkins, 21, who was left unable to have children after fighting cervical cancer at just 18.Speaking to the Daily Mirror, the hairdresser said: 'Any mother would do this for their child.'She added: 'It was never in question from day one.

A dancer collapsed and died on stage and was applauded by the audience who thought it was all part of the show.The 48-year-old man identified as R Khusainov, was performing a traditional lezginka dance when he fell ill.The performance, which was recorded by a member of the audience on a smartphone, shows him collapsing to the floor while performing in the town of Urus-Martan in south-western Russi

A father who raped his daughter 'almost daily' from the age of four has been jailed for 14 years.The man, who is in his 30s but cannot be named to protect the girl's identity, abused the girl over a three-year period until his wife found the footage on his phone.She contacted police and he was arrested on suspicion of rape. He initially tried to claim the man in the video wasn't him but later admi

Four men in the UK have killed themselves after being targeted in a new and fast-growing sex blackmail scam.Victims are being lured into exposing themselves or committing sex acts online by pretty young women after accepting their friendship requests on social networking sites.They then face payment demands of hundreds of pounds - or threats that recordings of their behaviour will be sent to famil

A tree surgeon died when his chainsaw 'kicked back' and cut his throat while he was working.Alexander Kirkley died from blood loss in hospital in Oxford two hours after the machinery sliced through his jugular vein at the top of a tree.The 32-year-old had stopped breathing and was in cardiac arrest by the time he was lowered to the ground.Oxford Coroners' Court heard how the arborist had worked i

An Indonesian man woman were caned 100 times after being accused of having sex outside of marriage.The woman, flanked by two female police officers was escorted to the stage outside a mosque in Banda Aceh, Indonesia.Once on the stage in front of a crowd of people she was forced to kneel on the ground, as she raised her hands up in the air.Then a masked man holding the cane started her punishment b

A terrified driver told police his car was stuck on cruise control at 119 mph in a desperate 999 call moments before he was decapitated as he slammed into the back of a lorry, an inquest has heard.Kaushal Gandhi's panicked pleas for help were recorded in a harrowing eight-minute call, made from the wheel of his out-of-control Skoda Octavia on the M40 motorway and played today at the inquest into h

After the death of his wife, a 42-year-old man from Gugulethu squatter camp in Springs, Ekurhuleni, SA, allegedly started raping his daughter every day until she fell pregnant.He then took the 16-year-old girl for a backstreet abortion.She said her father threatened to hurt her if she told anyone what was going on but she eventually told a classmate about her horrific life at home.The friend appro

A 13-year-old boy was groomed online by an abuser who turned out to be his own father.Scrolling through her young son's Facebook inbox, Jeanette Morrison came across sexually explicit messages from what appeared to be a pretty 19-year-old girl, teasing him to send her indecent pictures of himself.And, although Jeanette didn't realise it, Barry, 13, had already done just that, using the webcam on

Two police officers were beaten up by a mob of 30 children after they went to search a boy they believed to have a knife.They went to search one of the boys after they saw him hide a knife in Lewisham on November 9 shortly after the end of school.As they did, one of the officers was punched repeatedly in the face before he fell down. While on the ground he was kicked in the head and had to be take

A UK charity has warned rape victims in Dubai and the UAE not to report them after a British woman was arrested for 'extramarital sex' after she was attacked.While the victim's alleged attackers, both of whom are British, have flown back to Birmingham, she was arrested after reporting the incident and charged with 'extra-marital sex'.Now, Detained in Dubai has warned people about reporting such in

Zimbabwe's First Lady Grace Mugabe has again suggested that she is the de facto President. Grace, who is the Zanu PF Women's League Secretary says she 'plans and does everything with President Robert Mugabe' strengthening her past claims as the mind behind her husband.Mugabe has himself in the past admitted to being 'told what to do' by Grace who forced him to prematurely end his speech during the

A convicted armed robber with 17 aliases has been charged with sex trafficking after allegedly holding a group of young women, including two children, in his home in Detroit, US.The court heard the known felon kept two teenage kids aged 15 and 16 against their will along with two 21-year-olds and a 31-year-old woman.Detroit Free Press reports that Jackson listed the women for sex work on escorting