Detectives renew their appeal to the public on the sixth anniversary of Heather Barnett's murder.

A man with a shoe fetish who attacked a teenager and stole her high heel is electronically tagged.

Sex seems to be everywhere these days, yet the details of Max Mosley's privacy hearing have helped lift a veil on one type of sexual behaviour still shrouded in secrecy - sadomasochism.

A man with a fetish for plastic raincoats and cling film pleads guilty to two sexual assaults.

A soldier is found guilty of trying to arrange the kidnap of girls in a web chatroom so he could abuse them.

Staff at an internet cafe caught a soldier discussing on chatrooms the kidnapping of young girls, a trial hears.

The BBC News website looks at what could be dominating the headlines around the world this week.

The full text of a speech given by shadow chancellor George Osborne.

A serial rapist who dragged women off the streets and stole their stiletto shoes has his minimum jail term reduced.

A police expert tells the Angelika Kluk trial that pornographic images were found on her married boyfriend's computer.

A footwear fetishist who stole women's shoes from their feet is given a 12-month suspended jail term.

Whether it's whizzy phones that double up as portable music players, or the latest advances in genetic engineering, the pace of technology seems to grow ever faster. But has our lust for gadgets overshadowed an appreciation of the technologies that really make a difference?

Italian investigators provide UK police with more information on cases thought to be linked by a hair fetish.

A man who tried to murder his estranged wife with a rubber glove is jailed for a minimum of 12 years.

The meaning of multiculturalism can seem unclear. As a result, are we making a fetish of integration?

Contemporary furniture - be it high-end or mass produced - has become big business. Why is it so important to us?

A man dubbed the Dearne Valley Shoe Rapist is jailed for life, 20 years after the rape of four women.

A man who raped four women and attacked two others admits being the so-called Dearne Valley Shoe Rapist.

Zimbabwe unbans the practice of witchcraft, repealing a colonial law that said magic did not exist.

Cannibal Armin Meiwes, who killed and ate an apparently willing victim, is sentenced to life in prison after a retrial.