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Michael Jackson's physician Conrad Murray was sentenced to four years in prison without probation on Tuesday for involuntary manslaughter in the singer's death.

A second video clip of abuse aboard a commuter train has gone viral.

A Court of Appeal has ruled in favour of claims made by 174 former employees of the Birmingham City Council.

Egypt's blogger Abd El Fattah has been charged with 12 counts including on charges of premeditated murder and act of terrorism it was reported Tuesday.

Norweign psychiatrists have found that gunman Anders Behring Breivik was insane.

Psychiatrists are expected to submit their report on Norwegian mass killer Anders Behring Breivik.

A host of Premier League stars have paid tribute to Gary Speed following the 42-year-old's tragic death on Sunday.

A German pensioner charged with raping his daughter nearly 500 and fathering three children during a 34-year period insists the sex was consensual.

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

A United Arab Emirates court, on Sunday, convicted and sentenced five political activists, after they were found guilty for "publicly insulting" the Gulf state's leaders by calling for protests. The five, arrested in April, have been on trial since June.

Indian athletes are threatening to boycott London 2012 Olympics because of a controversial sponsorship deal with the Dow Chemical Co.

With neighbours including Egypt and Libya, and after years of tensions and violent clashes with the newly separated South, Sudan finds itself in the middle of a region that is rapidly changing, but President al-Bashir dismissed speculation of an Arab Spring in the country.

An Indian television channel has been asked to change the name of a new soap opera with the word Hitler in the title after triggering a controversy in the United States.

Ales Bialiatski, who is the founder of Viasna, has been sentenced to four and a half years in prison and confiscation of property for alleged tax evasion.

A student from the University of Derby had to be cut free by firefighters after becoming trapped in a clothes horse for more than an hour.

Gina Robins, 31, asked to use her neighbour’s microwave oven to heat up some baby food for her son, but instead used the appliance to kill her kitten, a court heard.

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

Two drunken men face life in jail after stripping a disabled man, stealing his false leg, and kicking and stamping him to death.

A new report on the Neo-Nazi group blamed for the killing of at least 10 people between 2000 and 2006, suggest that the country's far-right National Democratic Party may have formed close links with the violent gang.

A troubled teenager was driven to suicide after a doctor's letter accidentally sent to her mother revealed her cannabis and alcohol use.

The retailer has returned to Paris after previously having pulled out of Europe's fashion capital in 2001.

How will the Protection of State Information Bill impact on the economy, media, and people of South Africa?

Drug use at the St Paul's protest camp has escalated to the point that local authorities have installed containers for the safe disposal of syringe needles.

Three Cameroonian men have been served with a five-year jail sentence for engaging in gay sex, by a court in Yaoundé, their lawyer reported on Wednesday.

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

Two women in their 50s were caught on CCTV stealing £400 worth of alcohol from Asda in Oldham before realising their getaway vehicle was out of petrol.

Confusion over the capture of Abdullah al Senussi, Gaddafi's former head of intelligence, is still growing after the U.S. envoy to the UN said the Libyan authorities were unable to confirm whether he is in custody.

The Liverpool based Whitney family made hundreds of thousands of pounds supplying addicts with heroin and cocaine around the clock

South African MPs have approved a controversial Protection of State Information Bill despite widespread criticism, prompting protesters to call the day "Black Tuesday", the darkest day for South African democracy since the end of apartheid in 1994.

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.