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Former Israeli energy minister Gonen Segev, seen here at a 2004 remand hearing following his arrest on suspicion of attempted drug-trafficking, has gone on trial on charges of spying for Israel’s arch-foe Iran. A former Israeli government minister went on trial on Thursday on charges of spying...

A New York man was caught on tape stabbing his wife because he suspected her of infidelity. Jose Castillo, 66, a recent immigrant from the Dominican Republic, stabbed his 38-year-old wife multiple times with a screwdriver and would have succeeded in killing her but for the timely intervention...

Police in the central German city of Fulda said they shot dead a young Afghan refugee who went on a violent rampage in a bakery early Friday. The 19-year-old allegedly attacked the driver of a delivery truck at the bakery at 4:20am (0220 GMT), before smashing the shop's windows, local police...

A South African man has been shot dead by police after he refused to stop eating the body of a woman he had killed. Instead, after several warnings, he attacked the police officers with a knife. He was then taken down by a blanket of bullets. Aphiwe Mapekula, 23, had been reported to the...