Alleged self-confessed cannibal Alberto Sanchez Gomez (left and right as he is taken into custody by police), 26, is said to have made the startling confession to detectives when they turned up at his family home in Madrid to inquire about his missing mother Maria Soledad Gomez. He is said to have admitted sharing his mother's body parts with his pet dog and reportedly cut her up in more than 1,000 tiny pieces. Police found Ms Gomez's body parts in at least six large Tupperware containers inside the flat. 👮🏻‍♂️

Robert Thompson (bottom right), 40, was caught on video (left) pouring lighter fluid on a clerk, Linda Camire (top left inset), and a customer, Della Witt-Denizeri (top right inset with Thompson) at the Pit Stop convenience store in Palestine, Texas on Thursday. Denizeri was rushed to the burn unit at Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas. She suffered burns to her head, face, and neck. Camire was not injured in the attack. Thompson has been arrested on a warrant for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and aggravated robbery. Bond will be set at $4million. 😱

A crowd of 1,600 people including some families of Escobar victims, watched as the apartment building tumbled to the ground. Medillin Mayor, Federico Gutierrez, labelled building a 'symbol of evil'. In its place will be a memorial to the victims of Escobar's reign of terror that ended when he was killed by police in 1993. Gutierrez said that the eight-storey building had become a destination for tourists on 'narco-tours', which take visitors around sites related to the history of drug trafficking. Critics say the tours glorify the drug violence of the 1980s, when thousands of Colombians were murdered.

'So beautiful': Amateur photographers capture breathtaking murmurations of starlings swooping and flying in southern England 😳 #wow

Robert Sylvester Kelly, 52, surrendered on Friday night at the 1st District Chicago police station, hours after the Cook County State's Attorney office issued a no bail warrant for his arrest. Records obtained reveal that most of the counts he was charged with on Friday involved girls who were between the ages of 13 and 16 at the time. The fourth, who claims that she was assaulted by Kelly in 2003, was over the age of 18 at the time of the alleged offense. Kelly will appear in bond court on Saturday and then be formally charged on court on March 8, according to court records. 👮🏻‍♂️

Full shocking surveillance video shows a man bounding two women together at a convenience store, dousing them with lighter fluid, and setting one of them on fire. The incident took place on Thursday at the Pit Stop convenience store in Palestine, Texas. 😱🔥

'My parents taught me to work': Enterprising teen rakes in $35k in just FOUR DAYS plowing driveways in Seattle's heaviest snowfall in 70 years - and he'll donate 20 per cent to churches ❄️☃️☺️

America's opioid epidemic is moving east - from the rural, white Midwest to urban black communities where fentanyl overdoses are soaring. Well over 350,000 Americans have died of opioid overdoses. Overdose deaths, particularly those from synthetic opioids, have increased especially sharply in the eastern US. 😱

How Facebook harvests your personal data from popular apps: At least a dozen popular apps secretly share 'highly sensitive' data without users' consent. 😱 #delete_facebook

The shocking moment a driver got out of his car and appeared to kick a man in the head meters away from police officers has been caught on camera in Australia. Dashcam vision taken in the north Sydney suburb of Macquarie Park on Friday at 8.30pm showed the driver get out of his ute at a traffic light and run down the road. In full view of a squad car just metres away, the utility vehicle driver then suddenly appeared to kick through the driver's window of the other car. 👮🏻‍♂️😂

It spent ten minutes bobbing its head both high and low and pecking in fascination as the reflection obviously mirrored its actions in the glass at a school in Widermere, Florida. Cassy Rivers, 54, was working at Windemere Elementary School in Florida earlier this month when she heard a strange banging noise coming from outside. She suspected it may have been some animals having a scrap, but was gobsmacked when she discovered that the fight was actually between a sandhill crane and its own reflective image 😂

When you get snow in Phoenix Arizona you pack that shit up and save it for later... 🤣❄️☃️

A twin engine Boeing 767 Atlas Air cargo jet crashed into Trinity Bay near Anahuac, Texas, shortly before 12.45pm on Saturday afternoon, The Federal Aviation Administration believes there were three people on board the flight. Atlas Air Flight 3591, an Amazon Prime Air cargo flight, was on route to George Bush International Airport from Miami when it went down. FAA investigators are on their way to the site and the National Transportation Safety Board has been notified. The NTSB will be taking charge of the investigation.✈️😱

Moment Brazilian immigrant, 41, is arrested for 'drunkenly assaulting a man wearing a MAGA hat at a Mexican eatery' in a confrontation caught on video - but claims SHE is the victim👮🏻‍♂️