Law, Crime and Justice

The Microsoft co-founder appeared before a closed-door US House Oversight Committee panel that has been investigating the late sex offender's connections with the rich and powerful.

The seven people charged included directors and inspectors of a consultancy firm involved in the estate's renovation. 

A man, who was on the run from authorities in Victoria, has been jailed for eight years after mowing down a police officer in South Australia.

One of the state's top police officers has promised feuding gangs bringing terror to Sydney's streets will not exist "by the time we finish" as police stare down a new era of disorganised crime. 

Inside a quiet district courtroom in the heart of Sydney’s bustling CBD, a historic moment has unfolded involving a NSW Police sergeant.

Dozens of mourners have turned out to farewell Sydney crime boss Lorenzo Lemalu at a funeral held at Lakemba Mosque, in Sydney's western suburbs.

Police are searching for multiple suspects after at least 12 people were injured in a shooting near the Old West End Festival in Toledo, Ohio.

A man is charged after his nine-week-old baby was taken to hospital with life-threatening injuries in April. 

The Trump administration is pushing for a return to pre-Nixon days when US presidents could do whatever they wanted with presidential records.

After being cleared of allegations she hit her police officer boyfriend and left him to die, Karen Read now claims agencies that investigated the incident were riddled with "bigotry, misogyny [and] systemic failures".

Zeinab Ahmad, who recently returned to Australia, is seeking bail after she was charged with slavery offences after allegedly crossing into Syria with her family in 2015.

The former national security adviser, who served in Donald Trump's first administration, is now a prominent critic of the president.

Foreign Minister Penny Wong has told a parliamentary hearing she believes the allegations of Australian activists, who say they were sexually assaulted while detained by Israeli forces.

The alleged brutal murder of 14-year-old Agostina Vega in Argentina has reignited a generation-defining movement demanding justice for the women victims of crime and violence.

Victims of alleged abuse at a Queensland mental health facility have been left disappointed after the state's health minister did not offer a public apology.

Video of officers ignoring the pleas of a dying, innocent man has sparked a political storm about how police treat ‌different ethnicities.

Private equity baron Joel Thickins is alleged to have crashed his BMW into five cars in Sydney's east, before refusing two alcohol-detecting breath tests.

Security cameras have recorded at least three night-time instances where groups of people entered or exited sewer tunnels via maintenance holes on streets in Brooklyn and Queens.

An operation allegedly producing illegal 3D-printed guns has been uncovered and shut down in southern Tasmania.

The British prime minister said he "felt sick" while watching video released by police of 18-year-old Henry Nowak, who was handcuffed while he lay dying from stab wounds after his killer falsely alleged a racist attack.