NT victims of crime left in 'limbo’ as court wait times at record highs
The number of prosecutions being committed to the territory's Supreme Court has hit record highs, with each also taking longer to progress. (ABC News: Tristan Hooft)
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The number of prosecutions being committed to the territory's Supreme Court has hit record highs, with each also taking longer to progress. (ABC News: Tristan Hooft)
Albanese said now-infamous interview, dubbed ‘melon-gate’, taught him he needs ‘to do better every day’. Follow today’s news live
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China Evergrande Group’s founder Hui Ka Yan has been sentenced to life in prison, bringing an end to one of the most dramatic rise and fall stories in China’s corporate history.
Australia's phase-based traffic light system has been commonplace since the 1950s, but researchers say it may no longer be optimal. (ABC News: Claudia Williams)
The attorney for Clancy, who strangled her three children, says she suffered from postpartum psychosis
Erin Patterson (depicted above by a court sketch artist) is seeking to have her convictions overturned. (Supplied: Anita Lester)
Rupert Murdoch wanted to prevent his more progressive children from influencing the future of his media empire. (Reuters: Fred Greaves)
The verdict in the criminal case against Ahmad Badreddin Hassoun, a top Muslim religious figure during former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s rule, is set to be announced in Damascus on Monday.
Chris Hammer is a journalist-turned-bestselling author who released his first crime fiction novel in 2018, when he was almost 58. (Supplied: Mike Bowers)
Federal agents also ‘seized electronic devices’ from former Democratic representative at San Francisco airport
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Three men were indicted on Thursday over the killing of a key prosecution witness and a private investigator in Bukata in the northern Golan Heights in June, with prosecutors alleging that the witness was deliberately murdered to prevent him from testifying in an ongoing extortion case.
MANILA, Philippines — The Senate Impeachment Court should allow accredited news organizations to operate their own cameras inside the proceedings to ensure broader media coverage, House prosecutor and Manila 3rd District Rep. Joel Chua said Thursday.
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Ukrainian defendant Volodymyr Zhuravlov, right, listens as a judge announces the decision not to allow for extradition to Germany in courtroom of Warsaw’s Regional Court in Warsaw, Poland, Friday, Oct. 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski, File)
Josh Tarling, of Britain, gets ready to start the men’s cycling time trial event at the 2024 Summer Olympics, July 27, 2024, in Paris. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus, File)
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The founder of Chinese property giant Evergrande, Hui Ka Yan, has been sentenced to life in prison for large-scale financial fraud.
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An investigation by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) has uncovered an investment fraud network that allegedly has operated from Israel since 2021 and is estimated to have defrauded more than 4,000 Australians of hundreds of millions of dollars.
A Syrian police officer has been arrested and may be criminally prosecuted after an investigation found that he hit a detainee with a medical condition who died shortly after being released from custody.
An Omaha police car drives on Dec. 8, 2007, in Omaha, Neb. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson, File)
It was a cold winter morning when British police knocked on Anas Altikriti's family home in London.
CONSUNJI-LED Semirara Mining and Power Corp. has won a 13-year-long bid for a P27.34-million tax refund on its diesel importation after the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the company and denied a Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) appeal.
Ukraine started the week with near record-setting drone attacks on Moscow, with over 600 UAVs sent against the Russian capital Monday night into Tuesday.
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Kyle Spitze of Tennessee faced federal charges for targeting girls online as part of ‘764 network’ investigated by FBI
Manuel Hernandez leaves U.S. district court in Manhattan with his lawyer, Amy Gallicchio, on Monday, Aug. 10, 2026, after being charged in the deaths of two people in a boating accident in New York Harbor. (AP Photo/Larry Neumeister)
Spain's National Police and Civil Guard launched a large-scale operation at El Trampolín beach in Ceuta on Thursday morning to voluntarily relocate migrants to reception centres set up in army tents.
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The High Court of Justice on Thursday struck down the Israeli government's decision to close Army Radio.
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New York Governor Kathy Hochul warned Holocaust survivors and their families on Wednesday about potential restitution-related fraud.
Police asked the public for assistance on Thursday in locating 23-year-old Israeli man Amir Amberber, who has been missing since arriving in Japan about three weeks ago.
In the third week of the trial of former talkback radio star Alan Jones, a complainant took to the witness box to recount his time working at 2GB. Complainant C detailed allegations of indecent assault, a power dynamic, and why he felt he had to ‘cop it’.The defence has argued Jones never indecently assaulted the co…
In the third week of the trial of former talkback radio star Alan Jones, a complainant took to the witness box to recount his time working at 2GB. Complainant C detailed allegations of indecent assault, a power dynamic, and why he felt he had to ‘cop it’.The defence has argued Jones never indecently assaulted the co…
In the third week of the trial of former talkback radio star Alan Jones, a complainant took to the witness box to recount his time working at 2GB. Complainant C detailed allegations of indecent assault, a power dynamic, and why he felt he had to ‘cop it’. The defence has argued Jones never indecently assaulted the c…
An Al Ain court has fined two men Dh50,000 each for assaulting a petrol station employee in a dispute over cleaning a car windscreen.
Aimee Breault of Acushnet, Mass., live-streams a demonstration in support of Lindsay Clancy outside Plymouth Superior Court, where Clancy is on trial in connection with the deaths of her three children, Thursday, Aug. 20, 2026, in Plymouth, Mass. (AP Photo/Josh Reynolds )
Prosecutors in the Democratic Republic of Congo have requested 15-years of hard labour for former justice minister Constant Mutamba and his co-defendant Chançard Bolukola.
The US has designated Myanmar scholar and US citizen Min Zin as wrongfully detained after his arrest by Chinese authorities in June, a senior State Department official told Reuters, a move that makes securing his release a top US priority.
California Attorney General Rob Bonta discusses a lawsuit against Meta during a press conference on Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2026, in Oakland, Calif. Joining him are Colorado Attorney General Philip Weiser, and New Jersey Attorney General Jennifer Davenport. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)
Study finds patients injected with iPSC-derived heart muscle cells outperform control group on cardiac function tests after bypass surgery
Study finds patients injected with iPSC-derived heart muscle cells outperform control group on cardiac function tests after bypass surgery
Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers have released two United Nations staff members who they detained more than a week ago, the U.N. said Thursday, adding that the reason for the two men’s detention remains unclear.
A Tel Aviv man in his 60s was arrested on suspicion of stealing property from an apartment evacuated after its building was damaged by Iranian missile fire during Operation Roaring Lion back in February, police said on Thursday.
Rarely are the words “altruism” and “private equity” found in the same sentence, yet a cross-section of former Obama-era officials, media executives and several professional athletes are endeavoring to rewrite the rules of professional sports investment with the launch of a new $7 billion sports-focused investment f…
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The plane was coming down on the runway and veered into the helicopter, on which two state troopers were on board