Australian given 21 years jail for Facebook murder
A man who befriended a teenage Australian girl on the social media site Facebook before luring her to a secluded spot and killing her was imprisoned for at least 21 years on Friday.
Australian jailed over penis hack killing of ex-lover
An Australian woman who admitted killing her ex-lover and attempting to hack off his penis was jailed for three years and nine months Wednesday, with a court accepting she was suffering depression.
LL Cool J leaves intruder with broken bones
An alleged burglar was left with a broken nose, jaw and ribs after US rapper-actor LL Cool J confronted the intruder in the kitchen of his Los Angeles home.
Toulouse shooter might have had accomplices in Kazakhstan
Toulouse shooter Mohammed Merah who shot 7 people in March 2012 had broad connections in 20 countries, including Kazakhstan and Saudi Arabia.
Norway mass killer Breivik found sane, sentenced to prison
An Oslo court found Anders Behring Breivik guilty of "acts of terror" and sentenced him to 21 years in prison for his killing spree last year that left 77 people dead.
New Zealander jailed for ostrich egg assault on wife
A New Zealand man who assaulted his wife with an ostrich egg after her pet pig ran amok has been jailed for six months.
Life or death decisions for India's new president
Among the ceremonial invitations piled on the desk of India's new president Pranab Mukherjee sits a small file that could provide the veteran politician with one of his biggest challenges.
Mexico murders almost triple since 2005
The murder rate in drug-violent Mexico has almost tripled since 2005, government figures showed Monday, though officials did not specify how many homicides were linked to the country's war on drugs.
Russia jails Pussy Riot protest punks for two years
A Moscow court Friday handed a two-year jail sentence to three feminist punk rockers who infuriated the Kremlin and captured world attention by ridiculing President Vladimir Putin in Russia's main church.
US Christian lobby blames law center over shooting
A US Christian conservative lobbying group on Thursday accused a civil rights organization of provoking the man who allegedly shot a security guard in its Washington headquarters.
Severed head, foot found in Canada
Canadian police found Thursday the head from what is believed to be a woman's dismembered body in eastern Ontario province near Toronto, after retrieving a severed foot from the same river.
VIDEO: Nine militants killed near main Kazakh city: police
Kazakh police on Friday reported killing nine militants just outside the financial centre Almaty in the latest surge of violence to hit the oil-rich and once stable Central Asian state.
$600 thousand stolen from Karaganda church
A group of men have robbed a local Orthodox church for 90 million tenge ($600 thousand) in Karaganda.
Violent attacks in Kazakh park kill 11
Police in Kazakhstan said Tuesday they had discovered the charred and stabbed remains of 11 bodies scattered over large stretches of a remote park popular with international climbers and hikers.
Number of victims of near Almaty woods reached 11 people
The total number of the victims is 11. Six corpses were discovered at the first site and 5 corpses were found at the second site: official.
Investigators searching for another 3-4 people in forest near Almaty
Kazakhstan Interior Minister Kalmukhanbet Kassymov gave the details of the investigation.
8th corpse found in forest near Almaty
Kazakhstan Interior Ministry announced that the 8th corpse had been discovered in Ile-Alatau national park near Almaty.
7 corpses discovered in forest near Almaty
7 corpses have been discovered in Ile-Alatau national park near Almaty. Some of them show signs of violent death.
'Disabled' man executed in US despite protests
Authorities in the southern US state of Texas executed an African American man on Tuesday despite protests from human rights groups that said he was mentally disabled.
Armed US man arrested at Batman screening: police
US authorities said Tuesday they arrested a man at a screening of the latest Batman movie with a bag full of weapons in a case that evoked a recent rampage in Colorado that claimed a dozen lives.