A Brazilian man has publicly confessed to pushing dozens of needles into his two-year-old stepson, saying in a jail cell interview that he intended to kill the boy out of spite for his wife and didn’t think he would be discovered.

A twin-engine plane crashed near an airport not far from Arches National Park in south-eastern Utah in the US, killing all 10 people on board, an official said today.

A female official with the Census Department was shot dead today while she was riding to work with her husband in northern Iraq, police said.