Crime

LONDON, 3 November 2025– British police have arrested two men following a train stabbing attack that left 11 people injured on a service travelling from Doncaster to London’s King’s Cross station. The incident occurred around 8 p.m. on 1 November when officers were called to reports of multiple stabbings on board the train. The service […]

JOHANNESBURG, 31 October 2025– The family of a Gauteng taxi boss who was shot dead in Marlboro, north of Johannesburg, say he had survived an earlier attempt on his life this year. Police have launched a murder investigation following the fatal shooting of Molefe Moeleketsi, chairperson of the Alexandra, Randburg, Midrand, Sandton Taxi Association (ARMSTA), […]

CAPE TOWN, 29 October 2025– Residents of Elsies River in Cape Town have expressed deep anger and sorrow after a 14-year-old boy was struck by a stray bullet on Tuesday afternoon. The teenager was reportedly hit in the stomach and remains in hospital in a stable condition, according to local sources. The incident has reignited […]

MIDRAND, South Africa– Police in Gauteng have seized R20 million cocaine during a raid on a smallholding in Midrand, following a crime intelligence-led operation. The drugs, believed to have been smuggled into South Africa from a neighbouring country, were reportedly destined for Cape Town. According to the South African Police Service (SAPS), the operation took […]

PRETORIA, 27 October 2025– More than 29,000 crime-linked firearms are currently being kept in police storage across South Africa, the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry has heard. Brigadier Mishak Mkhabela, head of the Ballistics Division at the South African Police Service (SAPS), disclosed the figure during his testimony before the commission on Monday. He revealed that […]

PRETORIA, 24 October 2025– Tembisa Hospital tender tycoon Vusimuzi “Cat” Matlala allegedly invoked the names of senior police officials in an attempt to intimidate investigators during a raid at his Centurion home last December, a commission of inquiry has heard. The claims were made by Witness C, a member of the Gauteng Counterintelligence Operations Unit […]

PARIS, 21 October 2025– A Chinese woman has been formally charged in France over the Louvre Paris museum gold theft, in which six gold nuggets valued at about €1.5m (£1.3m; $1.75m) were stolen from the Museum of Natural History last month. French prosecutors said the suspect, who was born in China, was arrested in Barcelona […]

SANDTON, South Africa- Convicted criminal Mogotsi is expected to surrender his digital devices at the Sandton police station on Friday morning following a law-enforcement operation at his business premises in Mahikeng, North West, carried out the previous evening. Police raided Mogotsi’s Mahikeng premises late on Thursday under a search and seizure warrant, reportedly seeking confidential […]

ŚWIĘTOCHŁOWICE, Poland – A Polish woman reported as a missing teenager nearly three decades ago has been found alive in her family home, where she is believed to have been confined to a single bedroom since 1998. Police in the southern city of Świętochłowice discovered the woman, identified only as Mirella, in July this year […]

VATICAN CITY– Authorities in Vatican City are investigating an alleged urination incident that occurred during Holy Mass at St Peter’s Basilica on 10 October. According to reports from Italian media, an unidentified man approached the Altar of Confession and began urinating in front of hundreds of worshippers. Eyewitnesses said the event unfolded shortly after 9 […]