Crime Stories

The WhatsApp photos still stop people cold. In the early hours after an 18th birthday party, 24-year-old Brazilian midfielder Daniel Corrêa Freitas lay beside Cristiana Brittes, who appeared asleep, and snapped selfies with exaggerated expressions. He sent them to friends as what he framed as a joke. Hours later he was dead. Daniel, born in 1994 in Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais, had come through...

Conservation researchers doing routine checks at Chudleigh Knighton Heath Nature Reserve in south Devon in mid-October got a nasty surprise. An established nest of narrow-headed ants was gone. In its place: a hollow in the ground and clear marks from a spade.The missing colony of Formica exsecta one of England’s rarest ants could have held between 1,000 and 5,000 insects, including one or more...