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.
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.
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.
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.
India's MEA states no government involvement in a private media event featuring former Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina, amid concerns from Bangladesh over potential endorsement of her views, as she prepares for her first public appearance since resigning in 2024.
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.
Australian underworld figure Sam Amine is awaiting sentencing in Sydney after pleading guilty to brokering the supply of drugs and a firearm to an undercover police officer in a NSW Police sting.
Vance Boelter, already serving life sentences federally, made his initial state court appearance for charges related to the killing of former House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband, and wounding of state Sen. John Hoffman and his wife.
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.
A 38-year-old Singaporean man was sentenced to 21 years in jail and 16 strokes of the cane for sexually exploiting his 13-year-old niece, including statutory rape and sexual assault, over several incidents.
Four former Hong Kong warehouse workers have been sentenced to up to seven years in jail for conspiring to steal over 800 unsold Chanel handbags and wallets, valued at HK$8.7 million, from a Tsing Yi warehouse between 2016 and 2017.
A former Hong Kong Correctional Services Department officer, Tam Lik-chung, was sentenced to three years in jail for severely wounding an inmate at Pik Uk Prison on December 26, 2023. Tam repeatedly assaulted the victim with a stick, causing rectal bleeding, and then tried to cover up the crime by asking the inmate to lie.
Family of a Dalit teenager, Niti Jatav, abducted in 2007 to prevent her testimony in a rape case, learned from TOI that five accused received life sentences for kidnapping, 19 years after her disappearance. The family expressed relief but also sorrow over their significant losses, including their daughter and father.
Police released two ransom notes six months after Nancy Guthrie's January abduction from her Arizona home, hoping "distinct linguistic characteristics" will help identify the kidnappers. One note demanded Bitcoin, while the other claimed she died shortly after being taken.
