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Ex-mayor held for people smugglingNine people, including a former mayor of Mesolongi, a pilot and two Iraqi nationals, were arrested on Wednesday for transporting stranded refugees from a flying club in western Greece to Italy on a light single engine aircraft.
Scientist beheaded by her husband to 'protect her from dancers on The X Factor'Timothy Allen sectioned indefinitely for killing Samantha Ho because he believed dancers on ITV show were trying to get to them, court hears Timothy Allen, 40, killed his scientist wife Samantha Ho, 39, at their Cambridgeshire home as they watched an episode of the singing competition programme on the August bank holiday weekend last year.Allen, who had long-standing psychiatric problems stemming back to a motorbike accident a decade earlier, told police that he believed the dancers were “puppets” being controlled by a puppet master who was coming to get him, Southwark Crown Court heard. Ms Ho made a “harrowing and upsetting” call to the police in concern after her husband tried to cut his own throat. When officers arrived, they found Allen bare chested, covered in blood and repeatedly stabbing the couple's border collie, Cherry.
'Druid healer' called in by Brittany villages lacking doctorsMayors of six villages give 'ancestral healer' a town hall office after failing to convince a doctor to move to rural area on the coast of western France
Britain's highest mountain taller than previously thoughtNew Ordnance Survey calculation puts Ben Nevis’s height at 1,345m - one metre higher than when it was last surveyed in 1949
Hidden rooms at tomb of Tutankhamun raise hopes of new treasuresRadar scans reveal two chambers adjoining boy pharaoh’s tomb, raising prospect of finding the resting place of Queen Nefertiti
Warrior king uncovered at east Yorkshire iron age settlementThe well-preserved remains were unearthed at a 2,500-year-old site in Pocklington, described as being of international significance
Cats 'sprayed with acid' in series of attacks in Paris suburbLeader of local stray cat association said: 'I have all the photos of the cats who were burned – it is not a pretty sight'
Large rise in German bookings for Greek islands
Mission 'impawsible': 22-year-old's journey from Syria...with her cat TabbousIn the tent city at Idomeni, there is a tale (or possibly tail?) that's stranger than most. Peeping out from inside his tent, the fastidious four-footed traveller refuses to step outside into the mud to greet us.Tabbous has followed 22-year-old Esra al-Aboud all the way from Damascus in Syria, making the perilous crossing over the sea, but he's still not very fond of water."We couldn't leave him behind. He's a part of our family. How could we leave him behind," Esra said, explaining her decision to bring Tabbous with her on the difficult journey.
London parking space goes on sale for £350,000
Bank of Ireland fears London’s housing market is overheating
Flying Scotsman hit by drone on North York MoorsPassengers terrified by 'huge bang' when drone hit rear carriage of newly restored train on preserved railway tracks between Grosmont and Pickering
Sony has announced that in March... it will stop producing Betamax video cassette tapes, forty years after its introduction and 28 years after losing the war to VHS.