Pair tortured woman in city flat
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A 19-year-old with learning difficulties was stripped and tortured after being kidnapped in Aberdeen, a court hears.
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Â· Victim 'threatened public' with Uzi-style weaponÂ· Locals link death to 'troubled' stranger in pub
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LONDON (Reuters Life!) - British officials paid a psychic to exorcise a suspected poltergeist from state housing after the distressed occupants said they would rather become homeless than stay, a council said on Tuesday.
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First her kidnappers tried to  strangle her with a rope. When that failed, they held her head  beneath the waters of a sewage canal on the outskirts of Mexico  City until she finally stopped breathing.
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A woman who alleges she was groped by a former DUP councillor made other assault allegations, a court hears.
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Suspected Islamic militants in north-west Pakistan behead two women they accused of being prostitutes, police say.
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Beatings with bottles, sleep  deprivation and threats of violence against relatives are all  routine forms of torture in detention centres in the rebellious  Russian region of Chechnya, former inmates say.
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Police are investigating an assault in which an elderly woman was badly beaten during a burglary at her home.
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Six white people accused of holding a black woman captive while they tortured and sexually assaulted her are scheduled to make their initial court appearances this week.
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Two Pcs raped a drunk woman after they drove her home when she was attacked outside a club, a court hears.
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A man has stabbed a woman to death in a street of London before fleeing and triggering a manhunt, police said.
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Five children and two disabled women were locked in a basement cell, fed meager food and rarely allowed to bathe, by a couple facing criminal charges over their care, authorities said. The couple were paid $9,000 a month to care for the seven.
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A COUPLE arrested on suspicion of murdering the
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Two women, both architects, choose different paths as they confront the daily violence in Baghdad.
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A 27-year-old is due in court charged with grievous bodily harm with intent on a 75-year-old woman in her home.
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A man is given for beating his partner to death and leaving her body on the floor for three days before dialling 999.
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Five years ago Khadija&#39;s mother sent her  8-year old daughter to work as a housemaid in the city, where  her first employer beat her.