The body of a teenage inmate at Melbourne’s maximum security women’s prison remained in an outdoor yard for almost two hours before it was discovered, a court has been told.
Attrition rates and the wellbeing of officers have been the focus of discussion at this week's Northern Territory Police Association conference in Darwin. (ABC News: Tristan Hooft)
MANILA, Philippines – Affirming a Court of Appeals (CA) decision, the Supreme Court (SC) has ruled that courts may make a provisional determination on whether a party is alive or deceased in an ejectment case, when such a finding is necessary to resolve the issue of who holds the right to possess the property.
WAITING FOR VERDICT. Police officers stand guard outside West Kowloon Magistrates' Courts after former leaders of a disbanded group that organized annual Tiananmen Square vigils were found guilty of inciting subversion of state power over calls to end one-party rule, in Hong Kong, China, August 21, 2026.
The Israeli military killed a Palestinian man during a raid in Jenin after he resisted an arrest attempt, according to Al Jazeera citing health sources.
Lawyers for two of the women involved in the Sydney Swans alleged sexual assault incident in a Melbourne hotel room are preparing to launch legal action in the Victorian Supreme Court against the five players and the club.
British rapper Yung Filly will face a retrial on three rape charges in Australia, after a jury cleared him of several sexual assault offences but could not reach a decision on others.
A Hong Kong court has found two pro-democracy activists guilty on national security charges in a trial widely viewed as exemplifying the erosion of freedom of expression in the Chinese city.
COTABATO CITY — Three people were killed and another was wounded in separate gun attacks in Maguindanao provinces on Thursday, Aug. 20, despite the implementation of an election gun ban ahead of next month’s Bangsamoro Parliamentary Election, police said.
Swans AFLW captain Lucy McEvoy and coach Colin O’Riordan are speaking for the first time since five of the club’s men’s players were stood down for breaching club standards, and a police investigation into an alleged sexual assault continues.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — US President Donald Trump appeared Thursday on his former fixer-turned-foe Michael Cohen's radio show, holding a stunning public reunion with the man who once called him a "Cheeto-dusted cartoon villain” and testified against him both in court and before Congress.
The leader of an overseas hacking ring that stole more than 38 billion won ($27.4 million) by targeting wealthy figures was sentenced to 20 years in prison on Thursday.
HONG KONG — Two former organizers of Hong Kong’s decades-old vigil in remembrance of the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown were convicted Friday in a national security case brought under a China-imposed law that has effectively crushed the city’s previously thriving pro-democracy movement.
BUSAN, Aug. 21 (Yonhap) -- A former pilot was sentenced to life in prison Friday for murdering an airline captain and plotting to kill five other former colleagues.
McKINNEY, Texas — The attorney for a Texas teenager convicted of fatally stabbing a track athlete during a high school meet told a judge Thursday that he deserves a new trial because the court wrongly limited access to earlier proceedings.
Housing and crime are the greatest risks for the Crisafulli LNP government as it approaches the halfway point of its first term, with voter sentiment over its efforts in the past year plunging.
SEOUL, Aug. 21 (Yonhap) -- The National Police Agency (NPA) has begun making system upgrades to require the approval of a supervisor in order to close a missing person case, officials said Friday, following allegations an officer mishandled such a case on the southern island of Jeju.
A District Court judge embroiled in an ongoing dispute with the state’s top prosecutor has been ordered to step aside from hearing a series of criminal cases.
SAN ISIDRO, Argentina — The latest trial over the death of Argentine football legend Diego Maradona was suspended Thursday following claims that kidney test results presented to the court came from his father.