A US Navy Seal accused of stabbing a teenage Islamic State fighter to death has been unexpectedly released days ahead of his trial. Navy Special Operations Chief Edward Gallagher, 39, is also charged with indiscriminately […]
British retail tycoon Sir Philip Green has been charged in the US with four counts of misdemeanour assault. The charges come after a fitness instructor in Arizona alleged that he repeatedly touched her inappropriately. The […]
Julian Assange has suffered “prolonged exposure to psychological torture”, the UN’s torture expert has said. Nils Melzer urged Britain not to extradite the WikiLeaks founder, warning that his human rights would be violated and that […]
The woman who started France’s campaign to encourage women to expose their sexual harassers has appeared in court over allegations of defamation. Sandra Muller is being sued by Eric Brion, who she named when she […]
A court in the Netherlands has banned the Hells Angels biker club because of its culture of violence. The court in the city of Utrecht ruled that the group was a danger to public order […]
The family of a US man who died of dehydration while in jail will receive $6.75m (£6m) from Milwaukee County and a private company that ran inmate care. Terrill Thomas, 38, was found dead in […]
Sixteen people have been charged in Bangladesh over the shocking murder of a teenager who was burned to death after reporting sexual harassment. Nusrat Jahan Rafi, 19, was doused with kerosene and set on fire […]
US Special Counsel Robert Mueller has said charging President Donald Trump with a crime was not an option, in his first comments on the Russia inquiry. He reiterated that his report did not exonerate the […]
The discrediting of an unqualified “expert” – found to have cut-and-pasted the same evidence for several different cases – had led to the collapse of a multi-million pound fraud trial. Andrew Ager had been hired […]
Johnson & Johnson, one of the world’s largest drug manufacturers, has gone on trial in a multi-billion dollar lawsuit by the US state of Oklahoma. Prosecutors accuse the firm of deceptively marketing painkillers and downplaying […]
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