Bangladesh teachers are sentenced
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Three Dhaka university professors accused of inciting violence in August are sentenced to three years in jail.
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A former boarding school teacher is jailed after being convicted of 13 sexual offences against children.
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A UN tribunal convicted and sentenced two former Bosnian Serb army commanders to lengthy prison terms yesterday for their roles in the 1995 slaughter of thousands of Bosnian Muslims from Srebrenica, Europe's ...
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A Indonesian court sentences two Islamic militants to jail for their part in the 2005 Bali bomb attacks.
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Three Americans have been sentenced to up to 10 years in jail after being found guilty by an Afghan court on charges including torture, running a private prison and illegal detention.
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Two senior Chinese officials in Hong Kong are given long jail terms after being convicted of spying for the UK.
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Judges sentenced an Islamic militant to 18 years in prison Thursday for his involvement in the 2005 Bali bombings that killed 20 people &#151; the second verdict in the terrorist attack in as many days.
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TOWANDA, Pa. - A high school graduate was sentenced to up to two years in jail for streaking the graduation ceremony from which he had been excluded...
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New charges are announced against former Bangladesh PMs Sheikh Hasina and Khaleda Zia.
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A court in Equatorial Guinea has given sentences of up to 34 years to a group of South Africans and Armenians convicted of trying to overthrow the government.
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An Afghan court has sentenced to death three Afghans convicted of killing 11 Chinese road engineers in the northeastern province of Kunduz last June, a Supreme Court Judge said on Friday.
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TRIPOLI, Libya -- The death sentences for five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor accused of infecting hundreds of Libyan children with HIV have been commuted to life in prison, Libya's foreign minister said yesterday .
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MOSCOW -- A former police officer was sentenced to death and nine other men, including a senior civil servant, were given long prison sentences yesterday for the murders of a leading opposition politician in Kazakhstan and two of his employees.
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Several senior politicians are arrested in Bangladesh as part of the government's anti-corruption drive.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- The Taliban gunmen who murdered two teachers in eastern Afghanistan early yesterday were only following their rules: Teachers receive a warning, then a beating, and if they continue to teach must be killed.
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A senior Bangladeshi politician is detained in prison for a further 30 days following his arrest last month.
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A ceramics teacher who mailed a number of fake bombs he claimed were works of art was jailed Thursday for three years.