Japan suspect ‘killed nine over two months’

A man who was arrested after police found dismembered bodies in his flat has confessed to killing nine people over two months, Japanese media say. Police had found two severed heads, and the body parts of seven others, at Takahiro Shiraishi's home on Tuesday. The 27-year-old reportedly said he cut the flesh off the bodies to dispose of them and put cat litter over the remaining body parts to hide