Thames Valley Police chief constable Jason Hogg says he will consider joining legal action against the government to block the early release of two killers of PC Andrew Harper.
Lissie Harper, widow of slain UK police officer PC Andrew Harper, is urging public support for a petition to block his killers from early release under prison overcrowding measures.
Zhang Jianhua, former deputy head of China’s State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defence, was sentenced on Wednesday by the Dazhou Intermediate People’s Court for accepting over 43.38 million yuan in bribes.
The Hamburg Higher Regional Court sentenced eight young members and supporters of the far-right 'Last Wave of Defense' group to youth prison terms for terrorism, arson, and attempted murder aimed at collapsing Germany's political system.
Director Felix Randau's new film 'I Is Another', premiering at Locarno, dismantles the postwar myth that Heinrich Himmler's masseur Felix Kersten was a heroic savior who rescued thousands from concentration camps.
A woman in China named Wang was sentenced to three years in prison for abducting a 10-month-old baby boy in March 1990 while working as a maid for the Sun family.
A Hong Kong mother was sentenced to 22 years in prison for the abuse and starvation death of her five-year-old son, who weighed only 9.7kg and bore 129 injuries at the time of his death in September 2022.
L'UEFA menace la Fifa de poursuites judiciaires concernant son projet de société commerciale avec des investisseurs privés. Par ailleurs, le match France-Italie affiche complet pour la première de Zinédine Zidane.
Clinton Oliver and Braydon Franklin have been sentenced to life in prison with a 21-year non-parole period for the murder of Caboolture grandmother Donna Howe, whose body was dumped in a Sunshine Coast forest and set on fire in May 2022.
Prisoners in Western Australia are receiving up to $10.15 a week to sleep on cell floors due to severe overcrowding, which judges have cited as grounds to reduce criminal sentences.
Bereaved families in the UK have condemned government plans to release prisoners early to ease overcrowding, warning that dangerous offenders, including killers and child cruelty convicts, may walk free and undermine justice.
Federal police investigate a defence manufacturer vandalism incident as terrorism, Aboriginal community police officers sue the NT government over discrimination, and world oil companies face criticism over massive profits.
Australian authorities are investigating an anti-weapons protest and vandalism at Melbourne's Lovitt Technologies as a potential terrorist act linked to far-left extremists, with suspects facing possible life imprisonment.
Aaron F. Farinacci, 37, was arrested on suspicion of arson for the Old Trails Fire in Spokane, Washington, which has burned over 10,000 acres. Court records reveal Farinacci previously served prison time for fatally shooting his father in 2010.
England and Wales' electronic tagging system for monitoring offenders is failing to alert authorities of potential breaches, warns HM Inspector of Probation Martin Jones, amid plans to release up to 5,000 prisoners early due to overcrowding.
The UK government will introduce new regulations for the funeral industry, including licensing and inspections, after several high-profile cases of abuse, including Robert Bush's 20-year prison sentence for 67 offenses related to funeral services.
Prime Minister Andy Burnham faces early political turmoil as he reluctantly proceeds with a managed early prisoner release scheme to prevent systemic collapse, despite public outcry and the release of certain killers.
Russian human rights ombudswoman Yana Lantratova states that while prisoner exchange talks with Ukraine are difficult, Russia aims to return all its nationals, including soldiers and civilians unable to return home due to the conflict.
Andy Burnham's intervention modifies the UK's prison early release scheme, excluding those convicted of rape, serious child sexual offenses, and grooming, reducing the number of early releases from 6,000 to 5,000 over 10 months.
A 65-year-old repeat sex offender in Hong Kong, William Wu Yiu-shing, was sentenced to four months in prison for groping a 17-year-old student on a bus, after a video of the attack circulated online.
Udhayanidhi Stalin, Tamil Nadu Opposition Leader, faces backlash for an offensive remark during a Cauvery dispute protest, interpreted as a double entendre referencing actor Trisha, prompting calls for his arrest and criticism from BJP and TVK leaders.
Rapists and child sex offenders are excluded from early prison release plans in England and Wales to ease overcrowding, though domestic abusers and killers remain eligible.
Yachua Mauricio Flores, 23, was sentenced to 37 months in federal prison and ordered to pay $253,415 in restitution for his role in a violent anti-ICE protest on a Los Angeles freeway overpass in June 2025.
UK front pages lead on the early prisoner release scheme allowing domestic abusers and killers to go free, Prime Minister Andy Burnham's defense of the plans, Reform UK's small boats policy controversy, and record-breaking dry weather in July.
