KUALA LUMPUR  - A court on Thursday sentenced a Malaysian couple to 24 years in jail for starving their Cambodian maid to death, one of many such abuse cases straining ties between the country and its neighbours.Hardware store owners Soh Chew Tong, 44, and his wife Chin Chui Ling, 42, were ...

NEWARK: A US magistrate judge sentenced Grammy-winning hip hop artist Lauryn Hill to three months in prison, three months in home confinement and a $60,000 fine for tax evasion. Hill pleaded guilty last year to three counts of failing to file tax returns on more than $1.8m of income between 2005 ...

LONDON: A British businessman was on Thursday sentenced to 10 years in jail for selling fake bomb detectors to the Iraqi government and other countries, by a judge who told him he had blood on his hands. James McCormick made an estimated £50 million ($76 million, 59 million euros) from ...

LONDON  - Eleven British Muslims were jailed on Friday for planning an Al-Qaeda-backed plot to carry out a string of bombings that they hoped would rival 9/11 and the 2005 London attacks.The conspiracy involved at least six of the plotters travelling to Pakistan for terror training, with the ...

LONDON  - Three British Muslims including a convert to Islam were jailed on Thursday for planning acts of terror. White Muslim convert Richard Dart, 30, a former security guard for the BBC, was sentenced to six years imprisonment at England’s Old Bailey central criminal court in London. ...

THE HAGUE: A Dutch court jailed a former foreign ministry worker for 12 years on Tuesday for passing hundreds of sensitive military documents toRussia, including on NATO's activities inAfghanistanandLibya. "The court rules as proven that he passed confidential documents to theRussian Federationfor ...

ISLAMABAD - Former military ruler Pervez Musharraf’s farmhouse in Chak Shahzad was declared a sub-jail by authorities on Saturday and he taken there hours after an anti-terrorism court (ATC) extended his judicial remand for two weeks in judges’ detention case.The former dictator will ...

LONDON : Two men were jailed for up to 16 years in Britain on Thursday for planning acts of terrorism including an al-Qaeda-inspired plot to send a remote-controlled toy car into an army reservist centre.Zahid Iqbal, 31, and Mohammed Sharfaraz Ahmed, 25, had discussed building an explosive device ...

LOS ANGELES  - A US soldier has been jailed for 16 years for attempting to sell military secrets to a woman he thought was a Russian spy, officials said Tuesday. Military policeman William Millay was also dishonorably discharged as part of a plea deal after admitting charges including ...

KUWAIT CITY (AFP) - A Kuwaiti court sentenced opposition leader and former MP Mussallam al-Barrak to five years in prison on Monday after he was convicted of insulting the country’s emir. Barrak, a nationalist, was charged with making statements offensive to the ruler of the oil-rich Gulf ...

LONDON (AFP) - A British couple were handed lengthy jail terms on Thursday for killing six of their children in a plot to torch their house that went disastrously wrong. Mick Philpott, 56, was jailed for life, while his 32-year-old wife Mairead was jailed for 17 years for the manslaughter of their ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A man from Long Island, New York, is facing up to 30 days in jail and a $500 fine after a neighbour complained to police he was laughing too loudly, his lawyer said.Police issued Robert Schiavelli, 41, two tickets for disturbing the peace for laughing out the window of his home ...

HONG KONG  - The trial over one of Hong Kong's biggest ever money laundering scams saw a mainland Chinese man jailed on Wednesday for a fraud involving US$1.69 billion, according to court officials and press reports. The city's high court sentenced Luo Juncheng to 10 and a half years in jail ...

A cleric who submitted evidence against a Christian girl accused of blasphemy has been arrested on suspicion of evidence-tampering and desecrating the Quran, police said Sunday.Hafiz Mohammed Khalid Chishti, the imam of the mosque in Rimsha's area who first handed over evidence, was arrested on ...

WELLINGTON  - A man who threatened to kill New Zealand PM John Key by blowing him up as he dined in a restaurant was jailed Friday for 13 months, media reports said. Keith William Mabey, 22, who suffers from schizophrenia, had told a psychologist he had imagined killing Key ever since he ...

AMMAN  - Jordan’s King Abdullah II on Sunday ordered the release of 19 political activists charged with insulting him during pro-reform demonstrations last month, a palace official said. “The king instructed the government to take all necessary measures as soon as possible to ...

KARACHI - Basharat Hussain - the Malir Development Authority deputy director imprisoned in Central Jail over the charge of fraud in 2011 - was stabbed to death by a fellow inmate late on Sunday evening. An investigation has been launched into the events that led to the killing of Hussain - the ...

BOGOTA (AFP) - A former head of Colombia’s National Assembly has been sentenced to nine years in prison and fined $3.4 million for links to a former rightwing paramilitary group, the Supreme Court has announced. Miguel Pinedo was the third former president of the assembly to be found guilty ...

CAIRO - A Cairo court has sentenced Egyptian comedy giant Adel Imam to three months in jail for “defaming Islam” in several roles he played on stage and screen, the actor told AFP on Thursday. Imam, arguably the Arab world’s most famous actor, was sentenced in absentia, he said, ...

AMMAN - A Jordanian political activist was sentenced on Thursday to two years in prison for undermining King Abdullah II’s dignity, after he set alight a picture of the monarch this month. “The (military) state security court sentenced Uday Abu Issa, 18, to two years in jail. He has ...

HERAT - An Afghan man found in possession of photographs of Nato bases in Afghanistan has been jailed for 16 years for spying for neighbouring Iran, officials said Wednesday. The 23-year-old man, named only as Mahmmood, had Iranian intelligence officials’ phone numbers in his notebook and ...

MELBOURNE  - A former music teacher to Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein was Friday jailed for five years in Australia for terrorising two elderly women.Esam Moshi, who reportedly fled Iraq with his family because of their connection to the executed strongman, pleaded guilty at a county court in the ...

NEW DELHI - An Indian court on Saturday jailed a former telecoms minister for three years over a 1993 financial scandal when he was in office, court officials said. The 86-year-old Sukh Ram was India's telecommunications minister for three years from 1993 when the corruption scandal involving him ...

DHAKA  - Bangladesh’s high court on Wednesday sentenced a university lecturer to six months in jail after he posted a Facebook status wishing for the death of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, a lawyer said. Ruhul Khandakar, who was sentenced in absentia because he is studying in Australia, ...

LONDON  - A British judge jailed two white men Wednesday for the “evil” murder of black teenager Stephen Lawrence in 1993, one of the country’s most notorious racist crimes which prompted a major police overhaul.Gary Dobson, 36, and David Norris, 35, were found guilty by a ...

MOSCOW (AFP) - The Russian protest movement on Monday vowed new demonstrations this week after a leading anti-Kremlin activist was given a fresh jail sentence following the latest mass rally against Vladimir Putin.Tens of thousands of people took to the streets on Saturday in the second mass ...

KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) - A powerful lawmaker from Prime Minister Najib Razak's ruling party was convicted by a Malaysian court Friday of corruption and sentenced to a year in jail. Najib came to power in 2009 with a pledge to tackle corruption which is endemic in Malaysian politics and society, and a ...

LONDON  - A learner driver who crashed and killed a nine-year-old child during her first lesson was jailed for two years on Wednesday.Beatrice Mawamba, 34, panicked during the lesson with her husband and careered off the road, crashing down some steps and hitting the girl in a children's play ...

LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - A Las Vegas judge sentenced boxer Floyd Mayweather on Wednesday to six months behind bars for a 2010 attack on the mother of his children, but half of that jail term was suspended, officials said.Mayweather, the World Boxing Council welterweight champion, pleaded guilty to one ...

DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) - The UN war crimes tribunal for Rwanda on Wednesday found two bosses of the former ruling Hutu-led party guilty of genocide for their leading roles in the 1994 massacre of Tutsis and moderate Hutus, and sentenced them to life in prison. Mathieu Ngirumpatse and Edouard ...