Iran on Tuesday freed a Lebanese man detained in 2015 on charges of spying for the United States, a gesture that comes amid soaring tensions between Tehran and Washington. A US resident in his 50s, Nizar Zakka was arrested in September 2015 during a visit to Iran, where he was convicted the following July. Before […]

A military court had sentenced former Army 1st Lt. Michael Behenna to 25 years in prison for unpremeditated murder in Iraq; Lucas Tomlinson reports from the Pentagon.

There were ‘missed opportunities’ to prevent the death of John Gogarty, 65, stabbed 69 times in his Barnsley, home in July 2015 by Ian Birley, a convicted killer released from prison on licence.

A victim killed in a hit-and-run crash in Hollywood has been identified as a man who spent 12 years in prison in his native Australia for murder before being exonerated.

The 72-year-old man, who cannot be named for legal reasons, chose not to appear before Wollongong Local Court on Wednesday in relation to eight charges.

A 37-year-old Ugandan woman, who lived in east London, was found guilty of cutting her three-year-old daughter. She used a frozen ox tongue (pictured) to try to ‘silence’ her accusers.

A high-ranking French Catholic cleric, Cardinal Philippe Barbarin, was convicted on Thursday of failing to report allegations of sexual abuse in his diocese and said he would submit his resignation to Pope Francis. Barbarin, archbishop of Lyon and the highest-profile cleric to be caught up in the child sex abuse scandal inside the French Catholic […]

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A prominent human rights lawyer in Iran who defended protesters against the Islamic Republic's mandatory headscarves for women has been convicted and faces years in prison, an activist group said Wednesday.

Paul Russell Wilson brutally killed life coach Nicole Marie Tuxford, 27, at her home in Christchurch, New Zealand while out on parole for another murder.

Ian Clowes, 67, today pleaded guilty to arson after blowing up the home he shared with his wife Elaine, 63, in Poole, Dorset on October 22 last year.