Vietnam cuts sentence of British ex-rocker Glitter
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British ex-rocker Gary Glitter, imprisoned in Vietnam for sexually molesting two young girls, on Wednesday had his three-year sentence reduced by three months, his lawyer said.
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Disgraced British ex-rocker  Gary Glitter, imprisoned in Vietnam for sexually molesting two  young girls, is on a list of inmates to be possibly released  this month, his lawyer said on Friday.
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French rock star Bertrand Cantat is freed after serving half his jail term for killing his actress girlfriend.
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Hotel heiress Paris Hilton left jail on Tuesday in red-carpet Hollywood style, waving and smiling to scores of paparazzi, after serving three weeks for violating probation in a drunken-driving case.
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Rock star given suspended jail sentence and fined Â£475 for drug and driving offences.
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Child pornography charges against a former suspect in the killing of US child beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey are dropped.
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Charles Jenkins, a US military serviceman, received a minor sentence Wednesday to 30 days in confinement and dishonorable discharge by a US court-martial for his desertion in 1960s, the US Army said.
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Babyshambles frontman Pete Doherty skirted a jail sentence Monday when a judge ordered him to continue rehabilitation and complimented one of his songs.
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Hotel heiress Paris Hilton left jail on Tuesday in red-carpet Hollywood style, waving and smiling to scores of paparazzi, after serving three weeks for violating probation in a drunken driving case.
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Authorities dropped an assault charge filed against the lead singer of Australian rock band The Vines after his lawyers said he has Asperger's syndrome, according to reports Saturday.
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The former husband of Latina pop singer Jenni Rivera was sentenced by a California court on Wednesday to a minimum of 31 years in prison for molesting two girls, including a relation.
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Vietnam frees dissident Pham Hong Son, jailed four years ago for posting a US article on democracy.
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Portugal's highest court cut the jail sentence on a convicted pedophile, causing outrage on Tuesday in a country sensitive to the plight of children after the abduction of a 4-year-old British girl.
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Vietnamese officials release leading dissident Nguyen Vu Binh, who was convicted of spying in 2003.
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A magistrate on Monday deferred sentencing rock singer Pete Doherty on a string of drug offences, although the Babyshambles frontman could still be jailed for up to six
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A former soldier is jailed after a jury finds him guilty of killing a former loyalist gun runner.
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A Los Angeles judge brought an early end to Courtney Love's probation on drug and assault charges on Monday, telling the tearful singer she had earned it by completing a substance abuse program.