Family and friends desperate for news of missing woman Carmen Thomas are grappling with evidence of murder.

Universities may have to rethink their policies on staff-student relationships, following the Sophie Elliott case.

Police are hunting for a killer after admitting for the first time last night they believe missing escort Carmen Thomas is dead.

Scott Watson's father says he was hoping for a better outcome from a review of the investigation into the controversial 1999 case.

The release of a man suspected of several abductions of young women in Ireland has caused a frenzy of fear among locals.

Two more people have been shot dead in Melbourne, just hours after the slaying of crime patriarch Macchour Chaouk.

The Independent Police Conduct Authority has supported the police investigation of the murders of Ben Smart and Olivia Hope.

A premonition about missing Aussie youngster Kiesha Abrahams leads a psychic to a dead woman's torso wrapped in plastic at a reserve in Sydney's west.

Janet Moses died as a result of accidental drowning by way of manslaughter, Wellington regional coroner Ian Smith has found.

The man accused of the stabbing death of NZ-born nurse Michelle Beets allegedly held a knife to his brother-in law's throat to practise the killing, a Sydney court was told today.

A man has been killed in an election-related brawl in the Solomon Islands.

David Tamihere's Parole Board has requested a report on his suitability for "residential restrictions", for his release.

A caregiver who killed his tetraplegic friend was today jailed for at least 14 years.

A woman on trial for murdering her 13 month-old son showed "no emotion" as the infant lay dead on her bed, an Auckland jury has heard.

The family of Sophie Elliott have no end in sight as a planned appeal by her killer, Clayton Weatherston, is delayed.