Russian 'serial killer' on trial
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A Russian grocery worker accused of killing 49 people in woodland near Moscow goes on trial.
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Russian prosecutors on Thursday formally opened a criminal investigation into the murder of ex-spy Alexander Litvinenko who died of radiation poisoning in London on November 23.
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A Russian who met in London with Alexander Litvinenko and with the man whom British authorities accuse of murdering him said in an interview broadcast Tuesday that he expects he may also be accused in the former KGB agent's poisoning death.
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Russia's security agency said Friday that it has opened an espionage case in connection with claims made by Andrei Lugovoi, the suspect named by Britain in the radiation poisoning death of former agent Alexander Litvinenko in London last year.
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Aleksandr Y. Pichushkin was convicted last week of murdering 48 people and trying to kill three others. The Russian news media had dubbed him the Chessboard Killer.
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Â· Accused's DNA found on bodies, defence accepts  Â· Motive for serial murders a mystery, says prosecution
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The trial of the only person to be   charged with murder over Northern Ireland's bloodiest single   killing, the 1998 Omagh bombing, got under way on Monday.
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A former Afghan warlord stood trial in London accused of a series of murders, kidnappings and acts of torture, in the first case of its kind in Britain.
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A former Chechen politician is charged as an accomplice in the murder of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya.
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A former boss of Russia's disbanded oil firm Yukos, Vasily Aleksanyan, goes on trial accused of fraud.
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Two people accused of running al-Qaida-linked Web sites that showed the slaying of hostages and gave details of how to make bombs and carry out attacks went on trial Wednesday.
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The Russian supermarket worker found guilty of murdering 48 people told his trial on Thursday he felt like God as he decided whether his victims should live or die.
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A Russian man who said he wanted to record a killing for each of the 64 squares on a chessboard was found guilty Wednesday of murdering 48 people in Moscow
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Evidence from one of five women murdered in Ipswich is heard at the trial of the man accused of killing them.
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DNA evidence links a former trash company supervisor to a series of murdered women whose strangled, shoeless bodies were found in secluded spots around the city, a prosecutor said Monday as the man's trial began.
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A Moscow court on Monday sentenced a man convicted of 48 murders, which he recorded on a chessboard, to life imprisonment, ending one of Russia's worst serial killing cases
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A Moscow court on Monday sentenced a man convicted of 48 murders to life imprisonment, ending one of Russia's worst serial killer cases.