A Damascus court sentences Bashar al-Assad to death for war crimes and crimes against humanity, alongside Atef Najib for premeditated murder and torture, marking the first such verdict under Syria's transitional authorities.
A former Deloitte IT manager in Hong Kong has been remanded in custody after pleading guilty to stealing 423 laptops worth HK$1.2 million over 17 months to fund his stock trading losses.
UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham is increasingly confident he can adapt the early release prison scheme to exclude serious offenders, including the killers of PC Andrew Harper, by increasing overall prison capacity and expediting foreign offender removals.
Aleesha Gilmore, previously cleared of murdering Cassius Turvey, avoided immediate imprisonment after breaching her suspended sentence by driving without a licence.
Mildura man Christopher Rankin, 36, has been jailed for four-and-a-half years for possessing and producing thousands of child abuse images over an eight-month period.
The family of Kaylan Hippsley, a 13-year-old killed in a hit-and-run by Harley Whiteman, expresses devastation after learning Whiteman's sentence was reduced from 9 years to 4 years under the UK's Sentencing Act early release scheme, allowing potential release on licence this autumn.
Nicola Sturgeon has stated she will not visit her estranged husband, Peter Murrell, in prison and has cut off all contact after discovering he lied to her until pleading guilty to embezzling over £400,000 from the SNP.
Colin Gray, whose son used a gun he gifted him in the Apalachee High School shooting, has requested a new trial, arguing his conviction is contrary to law and unsupported by evidence.
Actor Bella Ramsey, 22, reflects on a decade in the entertainment industry, starring in major hits like The Last of Us and Game of Thrones, buying their first flat, navigating neurodivergence, and the realities of growing up on set.
An incarcerated woman fighting for the right to freeze her eggs has been granted leave to appeal a lower court decision in the High Court of Australia.
Tianna Addison Diodato-Day, 30, sentenced to 5 years in prison for arson at Norfolk Chapel, Karrakatta Cemetery, causing over $3.4M damage and disrupting mourning families.
Two former Standard Chartered Bank relationship managers in Hong Kong were jailed for three years for swindling HK$28 million from 21 Japanese investors in a fake African development project scam.
A German court sentenced 25-year-old Farhad N. to life in prison for murder and attempted murder after a deadly car attack on a Verdi trade union demonstration in Munich that killed a mother and toddler.
An Indian court sentenced former Tehelka magazine editor Tarun Tejpal to 10 years in prison for raping a former colleague, overturning his 2021 acquittal in a decade-old case.
Two French livestreamers, Safine Hamadi and Owen Cenazandotti, were given suspended prison sentences for abusing and humiliating Raphael Graven, who later died. The court found them guilty of violence and incitement to hatred but cleared them of manslaughter.
Ousted Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, 78, sentenced to death in absentia, plans to return to Bangladesh in December, blaming the 2024 uprising on a 'coordinated assault' and dismissing her sentence as 'legally void'
Sheikh Hasina said she plans to return to Bangladesh in December even though she faces a death sentence over the 2024 crackdown. Her remarks, made from exile in India, drew sharp criticism from Dhaka.
An 18-year-old learner driver has been jailed for 19 months after pleading guilty to dangerous driving causing the death of 15-year-old Caitlyn Bragger in a 4WD crash near Logue Brook Dam, Western Australia, in June 2025.
Former Bangladeshi PM Sheikh Hasina vowed in a Delhi audio broadcast to return to Bangladesh in December despite facing a death sentence for crimes against humanity linked to the 2024 uprising.
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.
Mitchell Forth, convicted of manslaughter over the 2022 killing of Perth teenager Cassius Turvey, has failed in his appeal to reduce his nine-year jail sentence, with WA's Court of Appeal ruling his argument ignored his substantial culpability.
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.
