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Photo courtesy of lonelyplanet.com Three months for Swaziland editor who compared judge to a punk A Swaziland court on Friday sentenced a magazine editor to a suspended three-month term for articles written four years ago comparing the country's chief justice to a high school punk.
01 June 2014
Jamil Mahuad. Photo courtesy of laprensalatina.com Ecuador sentences ex-president to 12 years in absentia An Ecuadoran court on Thursday sentenced exiled ex-president Jamil Mahuad to 12 years in jail for corruption.
30 May 2014
Google opens path in Europe for being 'forgotten' Google began late Thursday letting people in Europe formally request to be "forgotten" by the world's leading Internet search service.
30 May 2014
©Reuters/Fabrizio Bensch India wins Italy appeal over helicopter deal India on Friday partially won an appeal against an Italian court order rejecting its request to recover bank guarantees over a scrapped helicopter deal at the centre of a bribery scandal.
24 May 2014
ICC sentences Congolese warlord Katanga to 12 years The International Criminal Court on Friday sentenced Congolese warlord Germain "Simba" Katanga to 12 years in jail for arming an ethnic militia that carried out a "particularly cruel" 2003 village massacre.
23 May 2014
Khmer Rouge 'First Lady' hospitalised in Thailand: son The former "First Lady" of Cambodia's murderous Khmer Rouge regime has been hospitalised in neighbouring Thailand and is relying on a feeding tube and oxygen to survive, her son said.
23 May 2014
Liu Han, former chairman of Hanlong Mining. ©Reuters/Stringer China sentences mining tycoon to death A Chinese court on Friday convicted a mining billionaire said to have links with former security tsar Zhou Yongkang of murder and sentenced him to death.
23 May 2014
Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada. Photo courtesy of la-razon.com Bolivian ex-president can face rights trial in US A judge in the state of Florida has given a green light for a human rights abuses trial to move forward in the United States against Bolivian ex-president Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada.
22 May 2014
Photo courtesy of listofimages.com Japan court orders military night flights at base suspended A court Wednesday ordered Japan's military to suspend night flights from one base in the first such ruling over noise caused by fighter planes.
21 May 2014
Meriam Yahia Ibrahim Ishag. ©bbc.com Sudan judge orders Christian woman to hang for apostasy A Sudanese judge on Thursday sentenced a heavily pregnant Christian woman to hang for apostasy, a ruling which Britain denounced as "barbaric" and left the United States "deeply disturbed".
16 May 2014
©Reuters/Luke MacGregor Six Moroccans jailed for 'homosexuality': NGO A Moroccan court has jailed six men for up to three years on various charges including "homosexuality", a rights group told AFP.
16 May 2014
Crew members of the sunken ferry Sewol. Photo courtesy of scmp.com Four crew of S. Korean ferry charged with manslaughter The captain and three other crew members of the ferry that sank off South Korea last month were indicted Thursday on charges of manslaughter through gross negligence, Yonhap news agency reported.
15 May 2014
Dias Kadyrbayev and Azamat Tazhayakov. Photo  ©REUTERS Kazakh student prisoners in Boston to face trial separately The hearings of Dias Kadyrbayev and Azamat Tazhayakov, arrested in the United States in relation to the Boston bombings case would take place separately.
15 May 2014
The Porsche Carrera GT. ©Reuters Suit filed in death of 'Fast and Furious' actor Paul Walker The widow of the man who was driving a sports car when it crashed, killing him and "Fast and Furious" star Paul Walker last year, is suing Porsche.
13 May 2014
Turkey court hears witnesses in police murder trial A Turkish court heard testimony on Monday that eight men, including four police officers, pummelled a teenage protester to death with baseball bats and truncheons during anti-government demonstrations last year.
13 May 2014
Photo courtesy of hi-news.ru Appeal court revives Oracle-Google copyright battle An appeals court on Friday breathed new life into Oracle's big-money lawsuit against Google by ruling that software commands can be copyrighted just like classic books.
10 May 2014
King Tuheitia. Photo courtesy of theaustralian.com.au Son of New Zealand's Maori king on burglary charges The son of New Zealand's Maori king appeared in court on Monday charged with burglary and stealing surfboards in a North Island town, prompting a rare public rebuke from the indigenous figurehead.
06 May 2014
Photo courtesy of appadvice.com Mixed verdict in Samsung-Apple patent trial Jurors on Friday ordered Samsung to pay just a fraction of the big-money damages sought by Apple in a high-stakes Silicon Valley case over smartphone patents.
03 May 2014
Japan kicks off first whale hunt since UN court ruling A Japanese whaling fleet is set to leave port Saturday in the first hunt since the UN's top court last month ordered Tokyo to stop killing whales in the Antarctic.
26 April 2014
U.S. director Quentin Tarantino. ©Reuters/Robert Pratta US judge dismisses Tarantino lawsuit against website A US judge threw out Wednesday a lawsuit by Quentin Tarantino seeking $1 million from a gossip website for helping leak a screenplay for his latest planned movie.
25 April 2014

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