LAW & SOCIETY

Tony McCluskie accused of murder after headless and limbless body discovered in London canal.

Ex-boyfriend Clifford Mills stalked 49-year-old online before stabbing her to death.

The brother of missing former EastEnders actress Gemma McCluskie has been taken into custody after police pulled a dismembered female body from Regents Canal in London.

Gruesome find of woman's torso in London canal comes as hunt for missing actress Gemma McCluskie escalates.

Three staff members admit passing around teenage boy among themselves for sex.

Nation-beating bodybuilder gets nine months for 10kg cannabis haul.

The UK immigration authorities have made changes to laws to better accommodate foreign immigrants as well as give a boost to tourism in view of the Olympics.

International whistle-blowing Web site WikiLeaks has begun publishing confidential e-mails from a U.S.-based global intelligence company, Strategic Forecasting Inc. (Stratfor).

Anonymous has promised something big on Monday, Feb. 27.

A long-term investigation by the Scottish Fisheries Protection Agency (known as Marine Scotland) and the local police, into a £62.8 million fisheries fraud.

Pratima Das returns to court with claims she was treated as a slave by high-profile health department lawyer Shibani Rahulan.

Lindsay Lohan was praised by a Los Angeles judge at her penultimate progress hearing on Wednesday, as she entered the "home stretch" of her probation after being convicted of the theft of a necklace in early 2011.

Pirate Bay, the world's most resilient torrent tracking and file-sharing Web site could soon be forced to bid farewell to Britain after a court ruling upheld an Internet Service Provider's (ISP) decision to ban the Web site in the near future.

Police find charred remains of nine and 10-year-old girls in back of Peter-Thue Rudgaard's car.

Animal rights group supports proposal for animal rights to be legislated for intelligent marine life.

Prince of Monaco treated in hospital after brawl in Manhattan club.

A British Student, Glenn Mangham, 26, has allegedly stolen valuable information after breaking into the heart of Facebook. The talented hacker had earlier pointed out security loopholes with the Yahoo website and apparently won an appreciation award from the firm for his noble work as ethical hacker.

The European Court of Justice has decisively ruled out implementation of anti-piracy filter by social-networking sites to stall copyrighted content from being uploaded on their sites. The ruling involves a case filed against Netlog by a Belgian music royalties firm, Sabam.

UK landlords in firing line over illegal broadcasting of Premier League games.

Italian prosecutors and lawyers of British student Meredith Kercher are formally petitioning Italy's Supreme Court today to overturn the appeals acquittal of Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito.

Met Police commander attacked and falsely arrested Waad al-Baghdadi in wesbite cash row, court hears.

Apart from The Sun employees, a serving Surrey Police officer, a serving armed forces member and an MoD employee were also arrested by the Scotland Yard.

Twin bomb blasts decimated the Syrian security headquarters at Aleppo on Friday, killing over 25 people in the worst ever violence witnessed in the 11-month-long uprising against President Bashar al-Assad.

Washington state law makers passed a bill to legalise same-sex marriage on Wednesday, making it the seventh state in the US to back same-sex marriage.

Tottenham manager Harry Redknapp and the former Portsmouth chairman Milan Mandaric have both been found not guilty of tax evasion.

Trident Gang Crime Command set up by Metropolitan Police to focus on gang scourge in London.

The jury in the tax evasion trial of Tottenham manager Harry Redknapp were sent home on Tuesday afternoon, after four hours of deliberation failed to yield a verdict at Southwark Crown Court.

In what must be a blow to the island country's hopes for a democratic future, the first elected president of the Republic of Maldives resigned on Tuesday afternoon.

Even the highest court in England has turned tech-savvy - the Supreme Court has launched its very own Twitter account.