A man who was shot by police while he was brandishing two knives has failed to have his sentence reduced. Noel Quigley, 46, of Celandine Court, Londonderry, admitted attempted grievous bodily harm with intent and a further charge of assault occasioning actual bodily harm in April 2021.

Zaheer Mahmood, a Pakistani national, received a 30-year prison sentence from a French court for attempted murder and 'terrorist conspiracy' in connection with a 2020 knife attack outside Charlie Hebdo's former Paris offices.

A Chinese man who carried out a knife attack in eastern China last June that wounded a Japanese woman and her child and killed a bus attendant trying to protect them has been sentenced to death, according to a Japanese official.

A Chinese man who attacked a Japanese mother and child with a knife and killed a Chinese woman who tried to protect them has been sentenced to death, according to the Japanese government. A Chinese court said that Zhou Jiasheng,

A Chinese man Thursday was sentenced to death for killing a man in a knife attack near Shanghai last summer. A Japanese mother and her child were also injured on a Japanese school bus in Suzhou, Jiangsu Province.