Italy on Wednesday launched a legal battle at an international tribunal to bring home an Italian marine, barred from leaving India after the 2012 killing of two Indian fishermen who Rome says were mistaken for pirates.
A Doha Criminal Court has sentenced a man to five years in jail for kidnapping a restaurant worker by threatening him with a pistol, local Arabic daily Arrayah reported.
North Korea on Wednesday sentenced an American student, who had admitted to stealing a propaganda banner from a hotel, to 15 years hard labour for subversive activities, state media said.
A Doha criminal court has sentenced a jeweller to six months in jail and imposed a fine of QR10,000 on him for buying stolen jewellery.
India's finance minister vowed Thursday to recover more than $1.3 billion from heavily indebted liquor baron Vijay Mallya, as a political row erupted over the flamboyant businessman's surprise departure from the country.
The heavily indebted Indian liquor baron Vijay Mallya has fled the country, the Supreme Court heard on Wednesday, as banks lined up to try to recover more than $1 billion in unpaid loans.
An Indian court Wednesday granted bail to a student leader whose arrest on a controversial sedition charge last month sparked major protests and a nationwide debate over free speech.
A nanny accused of decapitating a young girl in her care then walking through the street brandishing the head, said "Allah ordered" the killing as she appeared at a Moscow court.
The supreme court in the United Arab Emirates on Monday jailed an Omani man for three years for ‘mocking’ the Gulf state on WhatsApp messenger, local media reported.
The widow and sons of a passenger on missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 are suing the carrier in an Australian court, saying they have suffered "nervous shock", a document showed Wednesday.
A court has served a Hindu god with a summons for illegally encroaching on government land in eastern India after a roadside temple was built in his honour, officials said Thursday.
President Barack Obama on Tuesday vowed to pick an indisputably qualified nominee for the Supreme Court and chided Republicans who control the US Senate for threatening to block him from filling the pivotal vacancy.
