A prison guard union in Italy's southern Puglia region will ask prosecutors to investigate widespread workplace safety abuses, with temperatures inside overcrowded prisons rising above 50C, in a case ...

WHEN the body of a wealthy banker with links to the Mafia, the Masons and the Vatican was found hanging under a bridge in ...

A French student in Singapore was fined S$600 for a viral prank involving licking a vending machine straw, highlighting the ...

An Afghan asylum seeker avoided prison after pleading guilty to sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl and a woman in London. He was fined and placed on the sex offenders' register for five years.

Police used surveillance and Uber records to track an Arkansas man after they said he stole nearly $150,000 in jewelry from ...

Italy's parliament on Wednesday passed a law potentially allowing thousands of prisoners with drug or ​alcohol addictions to serve their sentences at home while ‌undergoing rehab programmes in a bid ...