The dark web has been thrown into the spotlight following the kidnapping of a British model in Milan.

US Justice Department officials have announced the shut down of an internet marketplace for drugs, counterfeit goods, weapons, hacking tools and other illicit items.

Two paedophiles have been jailed for setting up a chat room on the dark web to distribute hundreds of thousands of images of "the most disgusting" child abuse.

Dealers of so-called legal highs in the UK could move to the ‘dark web’ as a blanket ban on the drugs comes into force later this week, a senior police officer has warned.

A computer geek has been jailed for eight years for trying to buy deadly ricin poison from the Dark Web after being inspired by the hit US television series Breaking Bad.

A computer geek has been found guilty of trying to buy deadly ricin poison from the Dark Web after being inspired by the hit US television series Breaking Bad.

A computer-obsessed man ordered enough deadly poison on the Dark Web to kill 1,400 people then set about finding a rabbit, chinchilla or other “pocket-sized pet” to test it on, a court heard.