Japanese police have questioned a former head of the nuclear safety body regarding possible criminal charges over the Fukushima nuclear crisis, news reports said Sunday.

Japanese police have questioned a former head of the nuclear safety body regarding possible criminal charges over the Fukushima nuclear crisis, a news report said Sunday.

A Dutch man was sentenced to 12 years in a US prison on Friday for being an online "broker" for credit card numbers stolen in a computer hacking conspiracy.

Five men accused of the gang-rape and murder of an Indian student pleaded not guilty Saturday in a case that has sparked huge protests and led ministers to back tougher penalties, including death, for rapists.

Two British hitmen who stabbed to death an innocent schoolboy by mistake in what the prosecution described as an act of "staggering incompetence" were found guilty of murder on Friday.

A US soldier accused of killing 16 Afghan villagers last year will face a court-martial in September, military authorities said Thursday.

British prosecutors said on Friday they would not bring charges over a hoax call by two Australian radio DJs to the hospital where Prince William's pregnant wife Catherine was being treated.

A man was found guilty on Thursday of supplying a gun to the victim of a fatal shooting by police in 2011 that sparked Britain's worst riots in a generation.

Randy Blythe, frontman of US heavy metal group Lamb of God, will attend his trial in Prague next week on involuntary manslaughter charges over the 2010 death of a fan, his lawyer told AFP on Thursday.

A US judge on Wednesday set a date of March 18 for perennially troubled US actress Lindsay Lohan to stand trial for allegedly lying to a policeman after a car accident.

Pakistan's fugitive former oil and gas chief has been arrested in Abu Dhabi on suspicion of embezzling $850 million in a scandal that could spark a criminal case against the prime minister, an official said Wednesday.

A US judge on Tuesday approved a $4.5 billion deal in which BP pleaded guilty to criminal charges from the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill -- but the British energy giant's legal woes are far from over.

Britain's Royal Bank of Scotland could face a £500-million ($786-million, 585-million-euro) fine from British and US authorities for its role in the Libor rate-rigging affair, media said Tuesday.

A Ukrainian court on Tuesday sentenced a former senior official at the interior ministry to life in prison for strangling critical journalist Georgy Gongadze in 2000, the highest-profile crime in the country's post-Soviet history.

Royal Bank of Scotland could face a £500-million ($786-million, 585-million-euro) fine from British and US authorities for its role in the Libor rate-rigging affair, media reported on Tuesday.

India's Supreme Court rejected on Tuesday an application to move the trial of five men accused of the fatal gang-rape of a student on a bus in New Delhi.

The father of an Indian student who died after being gang-raped on a bus has called for changes in the law to allow a teenage suspect to be tried as an adult, local media reported on Tuesday.

The father of an Indian student who died after being gang-raped on a bus has called for changes in the law to allow a teenage suspect to be tried as an adult, local media reported.

Police investigating allegations of bribery of public officials by the media have arrested a serving prison officer, Scotland Yard said Monday.

British police investigating allegations of bribery of public officials by the media have arrested a serving prison officer, Scotland Yard said Monday.