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He carried out the attacks, which involved using alcohol and drugs to stupefy his victims, between 2002 and 2008. He was jailed indefinitely in 2009. Police later linked Worboys, a former stripper who appeared in adult films, to more than 100 rapes and sexual assaults. In a statement, the Parole Board said: “We can confirm…

A Florida mother was kidnapped and killed in a case of mistaken identity during a murder-for-hire plot, authorities said late last week. Janice Marie Zengotita-Torres, 42, was reported missing by her husband in Osceola County, Florida, on Monday, Osceola County Sheriff Russ Gibson said at a news conference Friday. The investigation into her murder revealed…

Image copyrightGetty Images The council responsible for Grenfell Tower has apologised after 10 of the households left homeless by the disaster did not receive promised Christmas relief payments. Kensington and Chelsea Council’s deputy leader Kim Taylor-Smith said it was the authority’s error and steps had been taken to correct it. The 10 were said to…

South Korea offering an olive branch. North Korea striking a defiant tone. And the world waiting to see if tensions rattling the Korean Peninsula could undermine an Olympic Games, with calamitous consequences. That was the backdrop 30 years ago as South Korea prepared to host its first Olympics in the summer of 1988. In some…

Image copyrightReutersImage caption Austin police sealed off the area The reported explosion on Tuesday evening that injured one man in a charity shop in Austin, Texas, was an incendiary device – not a package bomb, police say. The authorities say it not is related to a series of recent parcel bombs in the area that…

Normal service resumed for leaders Manchester City, who swept past Newcastle thanks to a Sergio Aguero hat-trick in the wake of their first league defeat of the season last weekend. Arsenal made light of the absence of Manchester United-bound striker Alexis Sanchez as they dispatched Crystal Palace, while United squeezed past Burnley at Turf Moor….