Prisoners are human beings and should not be brought to open court restrained in chains as though they were animals, Colombo Additional Magistrate Pasan Amarasinghe has told prison officers. The ...
Between 1892 and 1954, most immigrants arriving in the United States passed through New York’s Ellis Island control center. For those fleeing poverty and war, the “island of tears” was also ...
Pia Lundberg unpacks the program of the 48th Göteborg Film Festival, due to showcase 270 films from 83 countries ...
Prisons officers have thwarted an attempt by a woman to smuggle in narcotics concealed in a broom she brought to Kalutara remand prison recently. Prison officers found four grams of heroin, four grams ...
A hospitality worker was allegedly viciously beaten during a racist attack on WA’s Rottnest Island. Vic said he was left with a nasty concussion, cuts and a chipped tooth when he was kicked and ...
An emergency rescue unfolded off Rottnest Island after a boat took on water with three people onboard. Water Police officers attended the situation with Rottnest Island rangers also involved in the ...
His lawyers said the U.S. plan is to have the Iraqi government house him at the Karkh prison outside Baghdad, the former site of a U.S. detention operation called Camp Cropper that held hundreds ...
Four months in solitary confinement was the 36-year-old hairdresser's introduction to Iran's notorious Evin prison. The only people she saw were her interrogators. She thought that she would "die ...
A high pressure system to the west of the state extends a ridge over the south of the state. This high pressure centre will then move into the Bight on Sunday and Monday and a trough will deepen down ...
A ridge lies south of the State with a high pressure system moving into the Bight during the remainder of Sunday and into Monday. A trough deepens down the west coast on Monday, before moving inland ...
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Gaza’s health ministry said that 88 people had been killed over the past day. Israeli and Hamas officials have been holding indirect cease-fire talks via mediators in Qatar. By Hiba Yazbek and ...