The sister of a US teenager who committed suicide live on the internet said “it boggles the mind” that viewers and the website operators had up to 12 hours to save him.

Great Train Robber Ronnie Biggs is making a fresh bid to be released from prison on compassionate grounds, his legal team said tonight.

A woman in the US who left a homeless man she hit with her car to die a slow death while lodged in her broken windscreen has been jailed for 50 years.