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The Australian courts have ruled in Apple's favour temporarily banning sales of Samsung's latest Galaxy tablet, marking a significant victory for Apple in the two company's ongoing global patent war.

Unconfirmed reports that one of Col Muammar Gaddafi's sons has been captured in Sirte have caused confusion after a Libyan spokesman said that there was no information that Mutassim Gaddafi had been seized.

In the first case of its kind in Britain, a mother killed her baby daughter by pouring liquid food into her lungs from a milk jug The Old Baily heard.

A post office worker yesterday has been sentenced to 100 hours community service and ordered to pay £500 costs for trying to get a police officer to carry out an unauthorised police check on her future son in law.

The Nigerian man accused of trying to blow up a U.S bound passenger plane on Christmas Day 2009 with a bomb in his underwear has pleaded guilty to all charges.

Residents of Dale Farm have lost their High Court battle against eviction.

The son of the lottery winner Angela Dawes has revealed that he was kicked out of his home by his mum aged 12

Harry Potter star Jamie Waylett, who played the Hogwarts bully Vincent Crabbe, has been charged for possessing a petrol bomb during the London riots.

Judges have condemned government rules to withhold visas for under 21s as a breach of the European Convention on Human Rights.

Southwark Crown Court on Monday sentenced a man and woman 10 and 2 and a half years of jail term respectively.

Returning last Friday, 07 November from a family wedding in Canada, I grabbed The Independent and read that News Corp had set up an 'Alert-line' for staff to whistleblow on suspicious colleagues. News Corp's Chief Compliance and Ethics Officer, Eugenia C Gavenchak stressed that all employees are under an obligation to report any of their workmates that they suspect of violating a presumably beefed up ethics code, following on from the recent phone-hacking scandal which led to the closur...

The jury in the trail of Vincent Tabak is expected to visit the flat where he is accused of killing Joanna Yeates later today.

In what is being described as an important crackdown, officials of the Middlemarket Drugs Partnership and the UK Border Agency have intercepted and seized two kilograms of heroin, at London's Heathrow Airport. The heroin, which has an estimated street value of £80,000, was reportedly found hidden inside in a consignment of vegetables - a variety of East Asian radish.

Despite international recognition, Italy continues to bury its head in the sand when it comes to tackling the Mafiosi who, it is said, run the country from behind the scenes.

Joanna Yeates suffered 43 separate injuries during a "violent struggle" as she was strangled by her neighbour Vincent Tabak with his bare hands, a court heard today.

Justice may still come to bear for the former 'King of Kings' .

A couple who allegedly swapped their twin babies to hide fatal injuries was sentenced to five years jail term yesterday.

In an attempt to seek revenge, a chef made a hoax call alleging that his estranged wife was carrying a bomb and was about to board a flight.

Vincent Tabak, the neighbour accused of murdering Joanna Yeates, may have driven to an Asda supermarket with her body in his boot, a court has been told.

A man from Texas has pleaded not guilty to battery after allegedly beating his wife because she didn’t ‘like’ his Facebook status.

The race for the socialist presidential candidate has now truly started after an unprecedented open primary held on Sunday saw previous presidential runner up Segolene Royale ousted, leaving Francois Hollande, and Martine Aubry to fight for the chance to run against President Nicholas Sarkozy in next year's presidential election.

The London Metropolitan Police (MPS) seized a large quantity of Cathinone Derivative (also called the "Meow Meow" drug) at Wembley on Saturday, during a random car search.

A homeowner who was arrested on suspicion of murder after an intruder was fatally stabbed during an alleged burglary will not face any charges.

Simon McClure, 38, has been sentenced to spend two years and six months in prison, for deliberately infecting his ex-lover with the HIV virus.

Manchester United star Tom Cleverely has accepted undisclosed libel damages from the Sun over claims he "badgered" a girl for sex.

Amanda Knox Case: Timeline of Events From 2007 Murder to 2011 Verdict

A 22-year-old man who strangled a woman he shared a house with and then fled to North Yorkshire has pleaded guilty to her murder.

A day after an Italian court overturned her murder conviction, American student Amanda Knox came home to Seattle Tuesday. Barely able to contain her emotions, she said she felt "overwhelmed" and everything felt like it "wasn't real."

Channel 5's topical chat show The Wright Stuff caused controversy Tuesday morning by asking their viewers 'Would ya?' with regards to Amanda Knox.

Hours after Knox was cleared of Meredith Kercher's murder the media frenzy that surrounded the trial and focused on the American student shows no sign of dying down.