Police are searching for a man wearing a clown mask and a yellow jacket who stabbed a person in southern Sweden.

A 15-year-old girl who helped plan the killings of a mother and daughter had "felt like murdering for quite a while" and was relieved once the victims were dead, a jury has heard.

A man in his early 20s has been stabbed during a group altercation in Louth this evening.

A police dog was left seriously injured after being repeatedly stabbed while chasing an armed suspect.

A man who killed his disabled neighbour and injured her 79-year-old mother in a frenzied knife attack has been jailed for a minimum of 10 years.

A woman stabbed her boyfriend to death with a kitchen knife after he told her of his plans to end the relationship, police said.

A former hospital administrator stabbed his elderly father to death and tried to kill two young children to spare them from "torture and crucifixion", a court heard.

A British man who was critically injured as he tried to save a fellow backpacker as she was stabbed in a knife attack in Australia has died, police said.

The mother of 21-year-old Mia Ayliffe-Chung who was stabbed to death at an Australian backpackers' hostel has paid tribute to an "amazing young woman with an adventurous spirit".

A mentally-ill man has been sentenced to life with a minimum term of 10 years for killing a retired solicitor after their cars were involved in a minor collision.

Emergency crews transported six people who were stabbed outside the California state Capitol building in Sacramento, the city's Fire Department said.

British Labour MP Jo Cox died yesterday after being shot and stabbed in the street outside her constituency advice surgery.

An Irish man has been fatally stabbed while on holiday in Turkey.

A 17-year-old has been jailed for life after hacking a fellow teenager to death with a "zombie Killer" machete.

A patient has been arrested on suspicion of murder after a male nurse was stabbed to death at a mental hospital.

A dentist who believed he was possessed by evil spirits stabbed a faith healer multiple times in a "dynamic assault" at a centre which claims to treat black magic.

A man suspected of slashing a woman in the face, fatally stabbing a store owner, and setting a homeless man on fire has been shot and wounded by police in New York City, authorities said.

A teenager has been found guilty of killing a school pupil he stabbed during a fight over a biscuit.

A new bride was overheard telling her solicitor husband that she was going to kill him hours before he was found dead in bed having been stabbed in the heart, Manchester Crown Court has heard.

A teenager has been stabbed in a takeaway in Nenagh county Tipperary.

Two men have been arrested on suspicion of murdering a popular teenager who was stabbed to death.

A "violent" newlywed fatally stabbed her solicitor husband through the heart with a kitchen knife after he was told he had lost his job, a court has heard.

A 15-year-old boy is in hospital after being stabbed in the chest in broad daylight.

Gardaí are appealing for witnesses after a motorist was attacked and stabbed in the back after rocks were thrown at his car.

A 29-year-old woman has been charged in connection with murder of Eddie Girvan in Antrim.

A pensioner found murdered in his own home was tied up on a chair and stabbed in the chest, police have said.

Israeli troops have shot a Palestinian woman after she allegedly attempted to stab a pedestrian in the West Bank.

A Palestinian attacker fatally stabbed two people in a Tel Aviv office building, police said, raising to 16 the number of Israelis who have died, along with 79 Palestinians, in a wave of violence over the past seven weeks.

Italy has beefed up security around Jewish and Israeli sites after an unknown attacker stabbed an Orthodox Jew seven times near a kosher pizzeria in Milan.

The heir to a multimillion-pound nightclub empire has been jailed for 13 and a half years for stabbing his father to death after years of being treated as his “whipping boy”.

A man who stabbed a Cologne mayoral candidate can be held criminally responsible for his actions and has told officials he has a background in the far-right scene, authorities said.

Two Palestinians shot dead by police after three stabbing attacks

A man is in hospital this evening following a stabbing in Dublin.

Two people were killed and one seriously injured in a knife attack at an Ikea store in the city of Vasteras, Sweden, about an hour west of the capital, Stockholm, police said yesterday.