Spain faces the biggest and most decisive trial in four decades on Tuesday when 12 Catalan separatist leaders go to court.

Bayer shares plunged as much as 14 percent on Monday, losing about €12 billion in value, after newly acquired Monsanto was ordered to pay €250 million in damages in the first of possibly thousands of US lawsuits over alleged links between a weedkiller and cancer.

Yoselyn Ortega's insanity plea fails to impress jury as she is given life without parole for 2012 double infanticide in Manhattan.

Three Spanish firefighters accused of people smuggling in Greece have been acquitted of all charges.

Danish Inventor stands accused of murdering journalist Kim Wall in home-made submarine, then violating her body before dismembering it and throwing it into the sea.

The man convicted of the 2016 New York bombings is handed two life sentences.

Turkish-Iranian gold-trader gives evidence in an Iran sanctions-busting trial in New York

A German pharmacist from the city of Bottrop has gone on trial, accused of diluting the medication of 1,000 cancer patients

Pakistan's former prime minister Nawaz Sharif attended an anti-corruption trial on Friday ordered by the country's Supreme Court when it removed him from office earlier this year.

Catalonia crisis: The Spanish state prosecutor has requested an European arrest warrant for ousted Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont after he failed to appear at a court

The golf legend, who was found asleep at the wheel with the engine running, will spend a year on probation.

A court in Turkey releases eight activists – among them foreign nationals – while they are tried on terror charges.

Eleven human rights activists including the local heads of Amnesty Internationl face 15 years on terrorism charges.

The two women say they thought they were carrying out a prank for a reality show when they approached the North Korean leader's half-brother at Kuala Lumpur's international airport last February.