LAW & SOCIETY

The principal of a school in North Carolina has been forced to retire after accusing a nine-year-old pupil of sexual harassment.

Former Israeli President Moshe Katsav has accused his country of 'executing' him as he arrived at Maasiyahu prison near Tel Aviv on Tuesday to being a seven-year jail term for rape.

The disgraced private investigator is thought to have been arrested by Scotland Yard in connection with phone hacking.

Polish, Romanian, Lithuanian and Latvian convicts are a growing prescence among the multi-national British prison population, figures from the Ministry of Justice reveal.

As another person is arrested as part of Operation Weeting - Scotland Yard's probe into phone hacking - the tally rises to 16 in what has been a busy year for the investigating officers.

In a shocking incident, a woman was attacked by her boyfriend because he was "bored" of her.

A woman and her elderly mother, who were found dead at a Southport home over the weekend, died from asphyxiation, police revealed.

Haunting images of four women's final moments on death row have appeared on the internet eight years after their excecution in China for drug smuggling.

WikiLeaks' chief and founder Julian Assange was given a lifeline in his extradition appeal as judges ruled he can take his case to the highest court in Britain.

Yates, who resigned from his post in the Met Office in July following his alleged role in the News of the World phone-hacking investigation, has been asked to overhaul the police service to ensure its procedure meets international human rights standards, reported the Daily Telegraph.

Till now, as many as six members of the British armed forces have been or are being prosecuted over allegations of abusing or wounding Afghan civilians since March last year.

20 people arrested on suspicion of belonging to banned Islamic extremist.

Paul McMullan, who worked for the News of The World, also told the Leveson inquiry his former bosses are the "scum of journalism".

Bastien was supposedly punished for flushing his classmate's drawings in the toilet at a playgroup.

The singer Charlotte Church told the Leveson Inquiry that constant press intrusion has had a "massive psychological effect" on her life.

Christopher Jefferies was initially a police suspect in the Joanna Yeates murder case - and faced an onslaught from the press.

How long can a woman's loyalty to her husband last after his death? Seventeen years? No; till death, as this story suggests.

The unwitting father claims he was unaware his girlfriend was undergoing IVF treatment when his sperm was used to get her pregnant

JK Rowling described her desperate attempts at keeping her family life private and protecting her children from the press, at the London inquiry into press ethics and phone hacking.

Max Mosley, Ex-Formula One boss, told the Leveson Inquiry into media ethics about the News of the World's damaging Nazi lies.

Phone hacking and a "web of surveillance" by tabloids made her "paranoid", she told the inquiry.

The parents of missing Madeleine McCann "were being tried by the media" and faced a barrage of innuendo suggesting they were involved in murdering their missing child, they told the Leveson Inquiry.

The ex-wife of former England footballer Paul Gascoigne's said she fears the press will take revenge for her Leveson Inquiry appearance.

Phone-hacking spread further than the News of the World, the Leveson Inquiry has heard.

Judge William Adams, the man who was secretly filmed repeatedly beating his disabled daughter with a belt, has been suspended as an Aransas County, Texas, judge on full pay.

Actor Steve Coogan tells the Leveson Inquiry about a failed NOTW sting and doorstepping his pregnant girlfriend.

Speaking at the Leverson Inquiry, the parents of Alan Watson claim that "sick" articles in the press about their murdered daughter, Diane Watson, drove their 15-year-old son to take his life

Gang raid British prison to swipe cigarettes worth £8,000

We look at the evidence the Stephen Lawrence murder trial jury has heard so far.