A high-stakes rivalry is playing out over a vast but vulnerable web of underwater cables that carry nearly all global ...

The International Criminal Court in The Hague handed down its first-ever Darfur war crimes conviction, finding Janjaweed ...

A woman who took thousands of pounds in deposits from tenants for homes she did not own has been jailed for two years and ...

Increased use of compassionate release could ease costs and crowding with minimal risks to public safety, experts say. But it ...

The man, arrested last month in a 1973 cold case killing in East Hartford, was found unresponsive in his cell ...

New studies of the “platypus of materials” help explain how their atoms arrange themselves into orderly, but nonrepeating, ...

Screenwriter Satoko Okudera, scribe behind this year's Japanese Oscar entry, gives her first interview to an English-language ...

Sean Combs to appeal sentence as his lawyer calls 4 years in prison ‘un-American’ - The disgraced music titan, 55, was ...

After hearing Judge Arun Subramanian launch into an F-bomb-laden recounting of trial testimony, I thought a sentence of 10 ...

A rapist who faked his own death and fled to Spain has been locked up. Former Army reservist James Clacher was reported ...

A man who faked his own death and fled Scotland in a bid to escape justice after raping two women has been jailed for eight years. James Clacher was convicted last month on two charges relating to the ...

The UN agency started offering larger cash grants as an alternative to prison. When that didn’t work, it revised down the ...