Homicide

Lawyers have made their closing submissions after a 12-day long trial into the alleged murder of Chinchilla toddler Kaydence Mills.

A Victorian man standing trial for murder has told a Supreme Court jury that he was not involved in the city stabbing and travelled to Adelaide in breach of bail to film a music video.

The teenager suspected to have killed three children in Southport, England on Monday has been named.

A 22-year-old Bacchus Marsh man who mistakenly killed his grandmother during a cannabis-induced psychosis has been convicted and sentenced to five years in custody.

The Merseyside Police force says the teenager, who has not been named because of his age, faces three counts of murder and 10 counts of attempted murder over the attack.

Specifics about how Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh and Hezbollah commander Fuad Shukr were killed on Tuesday are scarce, but one thing is certain: the two high-profile hits will further destabilise the Middle East.

A 5-month-old baby girl, and two boys — aged two and six  — were killed when the fire tore through a home in Sydney's west earlier this month.

A murder trial centred around Amber Haigh's sudden disappearance from regional New South Wales more than two decades ago was played grainy footage of detectives finding a note tucked away in a bright-green cabinet.

The murder convictions of three men jailed over the killing of two people who were locked inside a toolbox and submerged in a dam south of Brisbane five years ago, have been overturned on appeal.

Two children have been killed and nine more injured during a stabbing attack in England's north-west that one witness likens to a "horror movie".

A woman has collapsed in court after a Shepparton mother was jailed for at least a year for forcing her daughter to marry a man who murdered her six weeks later.

Police say five officers arrived at the scene on Saturday night in two police cars where they were confronted and threatened by the 34-year-old man.

The Australian embassy is understood to be involved in bringing the body of Liam Ryan back to Australia.

Robert Mantini, 58, has been charged with the murder of Melbourne man Adrian Romeo.

Four teenagers have been sentenced to jail terms of at least 17 years for the murder of Melbourne boy Declan Cutler as he was leaving a friend's party in 2022.

New South Wales Police have laid fresh charges against former constable Beau Lamarre-Condon over the alleged murders of Sydney couple Jesse Baird and Luke Davies.

NSW Police have laid new charges against former Constable and accused double murderer Beau Lamarre-Condon. Mr Lamarre-Condon was charged with the murders of Sydney couple Jesse Baird and Luke Davies in February.

The detective who led the investigation into the 19-year-old's disappearance has told a murder trial the operation was hampered by various factors including listening devices in the accused killer's home and car being installed incorrectly.

A gunman has entered an aged care facility in central Croatia and opened fire, killing six people including his own mother and wounding several others.

Two-year-old Kaydence Mills was forced to sleep naked on a toilet floor, a prosecutor tells a courtroom as her mother and mother's partner stand trial charged with her alleged murder.

Investors meet at a luxury hotel in Bangkok to try to get their money back, but none leave alive and now Thai police and the FBI are investigating an apparent murder-suicide by cyanide poisoning.

Two women tell the Supreme Court of South Australia they witnessed the moment a man was allegedly stabbed within metres of them during a night out in Adelaide's CBD.

The suspect in the killings of Australian couple David James Fisk and Lucita Barquin Cortez and their Filipina companion at at a luxury resort in the Philippines has surrendered.

An Adelaide man who helped his father to cover up the death of missing man Steven Murphy has been given a partially suspended sentence and released from custody.

Two young women were waiting at a pedestrian crossing when they allegedly saw a man being stabbed and stomped to death, while CCTV captured the alleged murder weapon being tossed into a bike cage, a jury has been told.