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The widow of a businessman who was falsely accused of a 1997 murder has urged the Indian prime minister to back her family's bid to sue the Scottish authorities.
The pair have delivered a joint statement just before the case was headed to trial. (Reuters: Caitlin Ochs)
Settlement details were not revealed in the agreement that put an end to a highly anticipated trial before it began
Tiger Woods is undergoing treatment in Switzerland after his DUI arrest on March 27, during which cops found hydrocodone pills in the golf legend’s pocket.
Elon Musk settled the Securities and Exchange Commission’s civil lawsuit accusing the world’s richest person of waiting too long in 2022 to disclose his initial purchases of Twitter, now known as X.
Police forcibly broke up protest outside hospital where federal immigration agents took detainee for evaluation
OpenAI president Greg Brockman, center, arrives at the U.S. District Court in Oakland, Calif., Thursday, April 30, 2026. (AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vásquez)
A group of civil rights organizations on Monday filed a new lawsuit seeking to stop parts of the law that would let Texas police arrest people suspected of illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico border.
The High Court will consider the challenge by animal rights activists as they take on a Victorian abattoir in a copyright dispute over covert footage. (ABC News: Matt Roberts)
Patrick Kolasinski, an immigration attorney representing Carlos Ivan Mendoza Hernandez, a man shot during an arrest by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, talks to reporters Tuesday, April 14, 2026, in Sacramento, Calif. (AP Photo/Sophie Austin)
A Colorado woman was slapped with the maximum sentence for a DUI crash that killed a motorcyclist — which she tried to pin on a “Mexican lady.”
Jefferson Lewis will face court via audio-visual link today, charged with the murder of Kumanjayi Little Baby. (Supplied: NT Police)
Jefferson Lewis was excused from appearing in court today. (Supplied: NT Police)
Blake Lively is seen in New York on Feb. 16, 2025, left, and Justin Baldoni attends a screening in New York on Dec. 13, 2023. (Photos by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)
A federal judge was adamant Monday that the Trump administration must give proper notice before renovating the East Potomac Golf Links, warning of “serious consequences” if it fails to do so.
The summer I turned 25, I had a hot fling with a handsome, brown-eyed stranger one weekend away in the Hamptons.
Elon Musk settled the US Securities and Exchange Commission's civil lawsuit accusing the world's richest person of waiting too long in 2022 to disclose his initial purchases of Twitter, now known as X.
A recent legal defeat for Meta should provide a new impetus for governments to crack down on the scourge of online child abuse. A New Mexico jury determined not only that the company’s platforms have exposed children to predators and sexually explicit material, but that it also misled the public about such risks.
Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni’s nasty legal battle over their 2024 film “It Ends With Us” is finally over.
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday restored broad access to the abortion pill mifepristone, blocking a lower-court ruling that had threatened to upend one of the main ways abortions are provided across the nation.
Wake Forest forward Juke Harris stands on the court prior to an NCAA college basketball game against Louisville, Feb. 7, 2026, in Winston-Salem, N.C. (AP Photo/Matt Kelley, file)
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The Court of Appeal yesterday set aside a 20-year rigorous imprisonment sentence imposed on a Buddhist monk by the Embilipitiya High Court, citing serious inconsistencies in the prosecution’s case.
A shooting incident was reported at Galle Prison on Sunday (3) after two inmates allegedly attempted to escape from custody, according to Police.
According to the Katugastota Police, a 28-year-old man was admitted to the Intensive Care Unit of the Kandy National Hospital early yesterday morning (4) after being found near the Gohagoda Emission Testing Centre in Katugastota with serious gunshot wounds to his back.
An inmate serving a three-month sentence at Welikada Prison died following a scuffle with prison officers.
Underworld figure Gavin Preston was killed in a shooting in Melbourne's north-west on September 9, 2023. (Facebook)
Uriel Dreyfus, a Judea and Samaria military court judge related to the famous French military officer Alfred Dreyfus, was recently promoted to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in a ceremony presided over by Military Court of Appeals president Major General Orly Markman.
Israel Police disperse hundreds of civilians who entered Mount Meron on Monday, on the eve of Lag Ba'omer, in an attempt to light bonfires after the government banned the event earlier this week due to the ongoing conflict with Hezbollah in northern Israel.
Beersheba police opened an investigation Monday evening after a traffic incident during a Lag Ba'Omer procession in the city left several pedestrians wounded.
Twenty-three innocent bystanders have been killed and 30 wounded in gangland shootings in Sweden over the past three years, according to statistics that highlight the country’s battle to rein in violent crime.
The ex-JPMorgan Chase banker who accused a glamorous female colleague of forcing him to become her “sex slave” lied to the bank about his father dying so he could collect nearly three months of paid leave — and apparently used the time off to prepare the bombshell lawsuit against Lorna Hajdini and his employer, The …
The singer, who was initially charged with driving under the influence after her arrest in March, was sentenced to 12 months’ probation
The singer, who was initially charged with driving under the influence after her arrest in March, was sentenced to 12 months’ probation
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In the months before she was stabbed to death by her former partner, a terrified Molly Ticehurst asked for help. Repeatedly. The childcare worker from the regional NSW town of Forbes was so convinced her ex was about to kill her that she told a friend: “If I am dead, he 100 per cent did it.”
How many birthdays has Oscar the cavoodle enjoyed at the centre of legal action? That was the question we were left pondering when we learned on Monday that the celebrity pooch had just turned eight years old.
This courtroom sketch depicts Cole Tomas Allen, center, listening as his attorney Eugene Ohm, left, speaks to U.S. Magistrate Judge Zia Faruqui, Monday, May 4, 2026, in Washington, as Tony Towns, the acting general counsel for the District of Columbia Department of Corrections, listens at right. (Dana Verkouteren vi…
Cooper's NDIS plan is vital in helping him access the community and supporting him in daily life. (Dunja Karagic)
The state judge overseeing New Mexico’s attempt to force a safety overhaul of Instagram and Facebook said Monday that he’s worried some of the proposed changes would amount to “overreach.”
President Trump has renewed US pressure on some Israeli government decision-makers to grant a pardon to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as he's still battling multiple corruption charges, at a moment he has ordered the armed forces to be engaged in several fronts, including in Lebanon.
The jury for the film extravaganza on the French Riviera, which starts next week, will be headed by South Korean director Park Chan-Wook
The jury for the film extravaganza on the French Riviera, which starts next week, will be headed by South Korean director Park Chan-Wook
A federal magistrate judge raised concerns on Monday that the man accused of trying to kill President Trump and top cabinet members at an annual press gala had been placed in unusually punitive detention for days while awaiting next steps in court.
A California boxing prospect has been shot dead in a suspected murder-suicide by his girlfriend’s ex-husband.
Spanish police have seized what is thought to be a national record haul of cocaine from a ship in the Atlantic Ocean.
A DC federal judge apologized Monday to the man accused of trying to assassinate President Trump and members of his cabinet at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner for the restrictive conditions he’s been subjected to in jail.
Police are searching for at least four individuals responsible for ‘terrifying signals of hatred and threats of violence’
Police reportedly rushed to Frankie Valli’s home this weekend in connection with the ongoing dispute between two of the singer’s sons.
Elon Musk pressured OpenAI leaders to cut a deal on the eve of their high-profile court battle – warning cofounder Greg Brockman that he and Sam Altman were about to become the “the most hated men in America,” according to a new court filing.