Brazil

Ex-tycoon Eike Batista leaves Rio jail ahead of bribery trial

Brazilian oil and mining magnate Eike Batista has left a Rio de Janeiro jail for house arrest ahead of a trial on corruption charges.

1 May 2017

Italy

Italy's top court reviews case of Costa Concordia captain

Italy’s highest court has begun reviewing the case of the captain of the shipwrecked Costa Concordia cruise liner.

20 April 2017

France

Carlos the Jackal given life sentence for deadly 1974 Paris attack

Venezuelan-born Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, once one of the world's most wanted criminals, has been convicted of first degree murder over 1974 Paris attack.

28 March 2017

France

Carlos the Jackal on trial in Paris

Carlos the Jackal, formerly one of the world's most wanted terror suspects, is on trial on fresh charges in Paris.

13 March 2017

Economy

Samsung boss Jay Y Lee denies corruption charges as trial starts

Jay Y Lee, the head of South Korea's Samsung Group, is denying all the bribery, embezzlement and other charges in a corruption scandal.

9 March 2017

Ukraine

Ukraine jails its head of tax and customs

Ukraine's anti-corruption prosecutor says investigators suspect 38-year-old Roman Nasirov helped exiled lawmaker Oleksandr Onishchenko deprive the state of the money in tax revenue linked to a gas dea

7 March 2017

Malaysia

Kim Jong-nam death: Malaysian authorities charge two women with murder

Two women accused of killing the estranged half-brother of North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-un, have been charged with murder in Malaysia.

1 March 2017

Egypt

Egypt upholds death sentences over football stadium violence

Egypt’s top court has upheld death sentences for ten men convicted for their roles in the country’s worst football related violence.

20 February 2017

Turkey

Trial begins for Turkish president 'attempted assassination' plotters

In Turkey a trial has begun for 47 people accused of plotting to kill President Recep Tayyip Erdogan last July.

20 February 2017

USA

Lance Armstrong faces uphill struggle in US fraud trial

Lance Armstrong to go to trial in US fraud case

14 February 2017

France

Hero Herrou - the farmer arrested for helping migrants - defiant after verdict

French farmer arrested for helping migrants handed suspended fine

10 February 2017

Russia

Russian opposition leader Navalny given suspended sentence

Navalny says he will take part in 2018 presidential elections

8 February 2017

Spain

Ex-Catalan president goes on trial over symbolic independence vote

A defiant Artur Mas, the former Catalan president says he has nothing to apologise for as he goes on trial today for his role in the symbolic independence referendum staged in the region three years…

6 February 2017

Greece

Greek Supreme Court delays verdict on extradition of Turkish soldiers

Greece’s Supreme Court has postponed a final decision on whether or not to extradite eight Turkish soliders who fled to the country in July.

23 January 2017

Norway

Breivik human rights violation ruling: appeal reaches final stages

The Norwegian government is presenting its closing statement in an appeal involving mass murderer, Anders Breivik.

17 January 2017

Norway

Breivik: no Nazi salute on day two of rights appeal hearing

The 37-year-old mass killer was rebuked for the controversial gesture on the first day of the detention conditions appeal hearing in Norway.

11 January 2017

Norway

Mass killer Breivik makes Nazi salute at court hearing

Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik gave a Nazi salute on Tuesday at the start of a fresh hearing over whether his human rights have been violated.

10 January 2017

South Korea

Impeachment trial against South Korean leader goes ahead without her

The Constitutional Court in Seoul has pushed ahead with the start of an impeachment trial against Park Geun-Hye, despite her refusal to attend

5 January 2017

France

French farmer on trial for transporting migrants across French-Italian border

Cédric Herrou faces an eight-month suspended sentence and driving restrictions for the aid he has given to African migrants.

4 January 2017

Korea

Park snubs impeachment hearings as South Korea's highest court begins scrutiny

South Korea's President Park stayed away from the Constitutional Court's first day of hearings into her possible impeachment.

3 January 2017