A mother murders her one-month-old daughter by burning her to death in a microwave oven. She confessed to putting her daughter in the microwave and switching it on, because she was afraid that her boyfriend would leave her if he discovered that he was not the baby's father.

Officers in Salisbury will be using cameras in their helmets to deter and detect crime across the city.

The mysterious disappearance of the 66-year-old Earl of Shaftesbury, a flamboyant multi-millionaire, gripped the French Riviera. His widow, Ms M'Barek, a former nightclub hostess was alleged to have been involved in the murder because her husband was in the process of divorcing her for another, younger woman.

A man about to be executed requests that his final meal be a vegetarian pizza donated to any homeless person located near the Maximum Security Institution where he is going to be executed at 2 a.m. But after he dies, prison officials refuse to honor his request, saying that they do not donate to charities. That apparently upset a few people willing to pay for and deliver a lot of pies themselves, and homeless shelters were inundated with donated pizzas.

A man is sentenced to death for the rape-cum-murder of a girl. His execution fails and the trauma it causes, results in his amnesia. Faced with a man who claims to be a different person and has no knowledge of his past, his executioners must find ways to refresh his memory, so that he may legally be executed.

Two elderly nuns are found suffocated in their hillside convent. The motive of the murder appears to be robbery - the killers are believed to have taken a crucifix containing wood reputedly from the cross on which Jesus Christ died.

The traditional penalty for a yakuza who has erred against his gang is brutal and permanent. It is the practise of "yubitsume" the little finger is chopped off at the knuckle to demonstrate penitence.

Gangsters are known for the spectacular tattoos that sometimes cover most of their bodies. Most Japanese public pools and gyms as a result exclude anyone with a tattoo of any kind.

The yakuza are trying toning down their gaudy image - the distinctive short hair-styles, the elaborate tattoos, and most famously, the chopped-off little finger. Now they want the more sober style.

The richest woman of Hong Kong, Nina Wang, first became a household name when her businessman husband Teddy was kidnapped 15 years ago. He was never seen again and nine years later he was declared dead. She inherited his fortune.

A man is forced into letting a gang of teenagers use his flat to drink and smoke cannabis. They subject him to regular abuse and humiliation, including pouring drinks and food on to him, daubing his face with ink and make-up, burning his hair, urinating on him and vandalising his flat. It also included regular beatings.

Detectives investigating a murder try to contact the author of a poem that supposedly names the killer. The poem describes the fatal stabbing of Paul Kelly, 32, outside the Longacre Tavern in Bath, Somerset, in the early hours of New Year's Day. It names the alleged murderer and claims he has threatened several witnesses of the attack to deter them from helping the police. It was stuck to lampposts and bus shelters near the murder scene last week.

The identities and whereabouts of the two boys who murdered a two-year-old boy ten years ago are to be kept secret for the rest of their lives, the High Court has ruled.

An unknown man brandishing a metal crowbar attacks American top figure-skater.

A female top tennis player is stabbed on court.

A man kills another man. He struggles to hide the corpse, but the corpse begins to grow, grow monstruously, to the point that it is impossible to move it, let alone to hide it.

Zackery Bowen and "Addie" Hall had a tumultuous relationship. The anatomy of the grisly crime followed the same manic path. In his suicide note, Bowen confessed to strangling Hall, violating her, dismembering, and finally cooking Hall's body before jumping to his death.

Police hunts a man they suspect of having kidnapped a young girl and held her as a sex slave in a cellar for eight years.

Two brothers gain the trust of a young married couple seeking a new home by posing as property salesmen. But, in reality, they are ruthless conmen, whose greed shall lead to murder - and ultimately to their own downfall.

A former gay lover and prison confidant of a famous criminal alleged the gangster revealed his first wife was murdered by his twin brother. An inquest at the time concluded his wife had committed suicide, and no one knew about this twin brother then.

Two identical twins were the most notorious criminals of the 1960s, heading an organised underworld empire of protection rackets, violence and murder. They were not well known to the public until the press revealed a homosexual relationship between a prominent peer and a leading thug in the London underworld, obviously one of the twins.

The power of gangsters has been heightened in recent years by the availability of mobile phones, smuggled through prison security, enabling members to run criminal activities from the safety of their cells.

A woman is murdered with a kitchen knife she carried while investigating a noise outside her home. She bled to death after being stabbed in the leg. The weapon has not been found.

A rapist declares that his victim indicated that she wanted sex by the way she sat while wearing a knee-length skirt, and that it was his duty as a man to accommodate her.

The captors of a young Jewish man brutally murdered in a working class suburb one month ago, hounded his family with as many as 40 telephone calls a day before the police advised the family to cut off communications. Only on weekends, during Africa Cup soccer matches, did the calls stop.

A judge allows the state's worst serial killer -he has admitted killing 29 patients with drug overdoses at nursing homes and hospitals- to donate a kidney.

A young woman with a hubba-hubba figure, a great smile, alabaster skin and dark, curly hair, died young, mysteriously and gruesomely. Photos of her corpse –torso cut in two, face slashed into a hideous mock of a grin- were suppressed, self-censored by the papers. She was known to friends as the Black Dahlia.

A private investigator believes that heat makes people want to kill. So he thinks that a good air conditioning system would do good to potential murderers.

"Wanted for one or more days the services of a medical man. It is essential that he should be a man of strong physique, of steady nerves, and of a resolute nature. Must be an entomologist - coleopterist preferred. Apply, in person, at 77B, Brook Street. Application must be made before twelve o'clock today."

A violent and psychotic gangster needs a place to lie low after a hit that should never have been carried out. He finds the perfect cover in the form of guest house run by a one-time rock superstar, who is looking for the right spark to rekindle his faded talent.

After accidentally shooting dead her ex-lover during a fight, a woman enlists the help of a stranger, Gunther, and his friend, Fritz, to dispose of the body while becoming intimate with both men.

An arms dealer confronts the morality of his work as he is being chased by an Interpol agent.

Two men, unknown to each other, wake up to find themselves locked up by a sadistic killer. To survive, one has to kill the other.

Two children are abused by their football coach.

A young Napolitan witnesses a murder but says nothing, for fear of rejection by the community.

- Why are you shaking all over?
- I am going to die.
- When? Did the doctors tell you that?
- No, you don't understand, they are going to kill me. Now.

A delinquent on the run meets an innocent, honest girl, and because of her he wants to stop being a criminal, and become an honest, hard-working citizen, and start a family. But things turn otherwise.

A young man breaks in the magnificent villas of extremely rich people not to steal, but to pretend, for as long as he can, to be one of them.

A thief, a pirate, a hoodlum, a thug, a ruffian, a vandal, a hooligan, a gangster, a liar, an impostor, a pretender, a fraud; and yet, a very good man.