Markets

Rogue UBS trader Kweku Adoboli warns his crimes 'could happen again'

Former rogue UBS trader Kweku Adoboli warns banks are still pressuring employees to make profits "no matter what" and his crimes could be repeated.

1 August 2016

Armenia

Policeman shot dead as Armenia hostage siege escalates

An Armenian policeman was killed on Saturday as chaos gripping Yerevan spirals increasingly out of control.

30 July 2016

Russia

Moscow airport workers plead guilty over Total CEO's fatal jet crash

Two Moscow airport workers plead guilty to causing the jet crash that killed Total's CEO Christophe de Margerie in 2014.

28 July 2016

USA

US President Ronald Reagan's would-be assassin to be freed

The man who tried to assassinate US President Ronald Reagan in 1981 can be freed from a psychiatric hospital.

27 July 2016

World News

Australian PM resists calls to broaden inquiry into youth detention centre abuses

Australia is reeling after footage was aired on TV showing guards tear-gassing teenage inmates of a detention centre and strapping a half-naked, hooded boy to a chair.

27 July 2016

Azerbaijan

Prominent journalist freed in Azerbaijan

Azerbaijani journalist Khadija Ismayilova - an investigative reporter for Radio Free Europe - has been released on probation.

25 May 2016

Belgium

Striking prison wardens burst into Belgian justice ministry building

There have been dramatic scenes in Brussels, with striking prison wardens bursting into the Belgian Justice Ministry building. Baton-wielding riot

17 May 2016

Belgium

Armed forces deployed to Belgian prisons as strike enters third week

Belgium has mobilised the military to assist in prisons where guards have been on strike for over two weeks. Police and the Red Cross had been

10 May 2016

World News

Mexican drug lord 'El Chapo' is moved to jail near US border

Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman was moved from a jail in central Mexico on Saturday to a prison in Ciudad Juarez near the US border, in a move that appears

7 May 2016

Russia

Sister of jailed pilot now back in Ukraine

Vira Savchenko was detained by Russian border officials

28 April 2016

France

Saleh Abdeslam's lawyers prepare for their client's trial in France

He was once Europe’s most wanted fugitive, now he is in solitary confinement in a maximum security prison in the Paris region. Saleh Abdeslam the

27 April 2016

Europe

Locked up in hell - inside Europe's prisons

Inside Europe's crumbling and overcrowded prisons: where suicide is for some the only way out.

15 April 2016

Europe

Conditions in some European prisons 'alarming' - human rights group

The head of the Council of Europe's Committee for the Prevention of Torture says some inmates have to share beds.

15 April 2016

Europe

Silent screaming - suicides and meds blight French prisons

Suicide rates in French prisons are almost double the European average. The latest data from the Council of Europe, in a report published in December

15 April 2016

Europe

Italy leads way on prison reform but system in crisis

Italy is showing the world how to reform prisons, and has passed into law an impressive and widely-praised reform package. But the money to implement it is sorely lacking, and in the meantime most of

14 April 2016

Portugal

Ex-CIA agent loses extradition appeal and looks likely to serve jail term in Italy

Former CIA operative Sabrina de Sousa has lost her appeal in Portugal’s supreme court against extradition to Italy to serve a six-year sentence for

12 April 2016

Angola

Angola: Rapper jailed on rebellion charges with other activists

He has been on hunger strike. Now Portuguese Angolan rapper Luaty Beirão has been jailed with 16 other activists for ‘conspiracy to commit a

28 March 2016

Canada

[Watch] Inmates escape Canadian jail by helicopter

Two inmates at a Canadian jail created their own version of “The Great Escape”, fleeing Quebec’s St-Jérôme jail by clinging to a cord attached to a

17 March 2016

Norway

Norway's mass killer Anders Breivik sues his jailers for violating his human rights

Anders Behring Breivik , the man convicted of killing 77 people in Norway’s worst peacetime atrocity is suing his jailers for alleged cruel and

14 March 2016

World News

Syrian pair jailed over death of refugee boy Aylan Kurdi

A Turkish court has jailed two Syrians over the drowning of toddler Aylan Kurdi and four others including his mother and brother. Each sentenced to

4 March 2016