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Ukrainian pilot on trial in Russia starts dry hunger strike

A Ukrainian Air Force pilot on trial in Russia has begun a dry hunger strike to protest at the length of what she says is an unjust legal process

03/03/2016

France

Oh là là - does French ruling mean more nude pictures on Facebook?

A French court has ruled over a battle between Facebook and a French school teacher about the right to see a 150-year-old vagina. In 2011, the

12/02/2016

Business Series

Top European Uber executives on trial in France for running an illegal taxi operation

Two of the top European executives for ride-booking company Uber have gone on trial in court in France facing criminal charges for which they could be jailed.

11/02/2016

Germany

Ex-Nazi guard, 94, goes on trial over 170,000 killings at Auschwitz

He is 94 today, at the centre of what is likely to be one of the last ever Nazi war crimes trials. But Reinhold Hanning was 20 years old in 1942 when

11/02/2016

South Africa

Zuma's legal battle latest stumble in error-filled second term

South African President Jacob Zuma’s legal headache is just the latest problem he has been backed into. His critics say that in the past this has

09/02/2016

Spain

Spain: Princess Cristina and her husband in court, as defendants testify in fraud case

Spain’s Princess Cristina, the first member of the country’s royal family ever to face trial returned to court in Mallorca on Tuesday. Cristina one

09/02/2016

World

Chad: Former president Hissène Habré's trial resumes

The trial of former Chadian leader Hissène Habré is set to resume today in Senegal.

08/02/2016

Hungary

Hungarian court acquits managers over deadly alumina reservoir spill

Fifteen people tried in connection with a toxic spill from an alumina reservoir in western Hungary in 2010 have been acquitted. Ten people were

29/01/2016

Ivory Coast

Ivory Coast: ex-president denies war crimes

Dozens of Laurent Gbagbo's supporters gather outside the court building in The Hague

28/01/2016

Canada

Teen charged with four counts of murder in Canada shooting

Hundreds of people have attended a church vigil in memory of the four victims of Friday’s school shooting in the remote community of La Loche in

26/01/2016

France

France: Volunteer left brain dead after clinical drug trial dies in hospital

A man left brain dead after a clinical trial in France has now died. He was one of dozens of volunteers at a private facility to have tested an

17/01/2016

France

Patient dies following clinical drug trial in France

A patient has died after falling into a coma following a medical trial in Rennes, northwest France. Five other people were hospitalised following the

17/01/2016

Sport

Olympic champion skier Picabo Street arrested

U.S. Olympic gold medallist skier Picabo Street was charged with assault and domestic violence after an alleged altercation with her father in Utah

16/01/2016

France

French drug trial disaster: one man brain dead, five in hospital

One person is brain dead and five others are in a serious condition in France after a clinical trial went terribly wrong.

15/01/2016

Spain

Spain: day 1 of Princess Cristina tax fraud trial draws to a close

The first day of a historic trial has drawn to a close. Princess Cristina has become the first member of the Spanish royal family to face criminal

11/01/2016

South Africa

Oscar Pistorius to appeal murder conviction

South African athlete Oscar Pistorius’s lawyers have lodged papers at the Constitutional Court urging a review of his murder conviction. Pistorius

11/01/2016

Spain

Spain's Princess Cristina appears in court on tax fraud charges

Spain’s Princess Cristina has appeared in court with her husband in Majorca on charges of tax fraud. The 50-year-old sister of King Felipe VI is the

11/01/2016

World News

Spanish princess to appear in court on tax fraud charges

Spain’s Princess Cristina is due in court in Mallorca on Monday in connection with tax fraud charges in a case that has embarrassed the country’s

11/01/2016

Turkey

Turkish cleric and 68 others on trial for accusing Erdogan's son of corruption

The trial of a US based Muslim cleric opens in Istanbul.

06/01/2016

USA

USA: White policemen to face no charges over fatal shooting of black boy with toy gun

There have been calls for nationwide protests after a US grand jury cleared two white policemen in the fatal shooting of a 12-year-old black boy

29/12/2015