A British man has been arrested over a double murder in Hong Kong.

Pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong have escalated, a day after demonstrators upset over Beijing’s decision to limit political reforms defied onslaughts of tear gas and appeals from the territory’s top leader to go home.

A man killed, salted, and cooked his parents before dismembering them and stuffing their remains into lunchboxes.

Two Americans found dead in a Hong Kong luxury hotel might have ingested the date-rape drug Rohypnol, a newspaper reported today, citing police.