One of the men convicted of abducting and raping Sydney bank teller Janine Balding before her murder in the late 1980s has been returned to jail, where a magistrate says he best belongs.
A former NSW prison guard sentenced to more than two decades in jail for sexually assaulting nine women has lost a bid to overturn his conviction and sentence.
Supporters of pro-democracy writer Dr Yang Hengjun have called on Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to demand the Australian citizen's release from detention on a suspended death sentence.
A man who stabbed a Brisbane shopping centre security guard in the torso and slashed another on the arm has been jailed over the "remorseless" attacks.
His comments come just days after a Manhattan jury found Trump guilty of all charges in his hush money trial, making him the first former president to be found guilty of a felony
A woman was seen lighting a cigarette before checking on her two toddlers who had died after being left in a hot car for several hours, an inquest has heard.
Despite police claiming they have phone recordings of an alleged child abuse victim describing sexual acts she was forced to perform, her accused groomer has been granted bail.
A man who killed 11 people and injured 17 others died from a cocaine overdose after he was taken into police custody, a pathologist told a coroner’s inquest in Canada on Tuesday.
The US Supreme Court has declined to halt the execution of Alabama death row inmate Kenneth Smith, who is scheduled to be put to death this week using nitrogen gas.
Detective Senior Constable Damian Leeding was shot in the head while trying to stop an armed hold up at the Pacific Pines Tavern on the Gold Coast in 2011.
Sam Bankman-Fried pleaded not guilty to an amended indictment alleging fraud and money laundering conspiracy charges, appearing in court for the first time since his bail was revoked.
More than 90 prison security agents are currently being held by inmates across five different prisons in Ecuador, amid escalating violence in the country which saw a local mayor killed.
Authorities are seeking information about a drone that may have been flying near a northwestern Pennsylvania jail before the escape of a homicide suspect.
A prisoner suspected of stabbing Larry Nassar said the disgraced former sports doctor provoked the attack by making a lewd comment while watching a Wimbledon tennis match on TV.