Crime

Former NRL star Brett Finch has been charged by police after allegedly commenting on child abuse material. According to the Daily Telegraph, Finch was arrested on Tuesday morning and taken to Kogarah Police Station where he was charged with five counts of using a carriage service to transmit,

Bangladesh authorities must end the harassment of Adilur Rahman Khan and ASM Nasiruddin Elan , respectively Secretary and Director of the human rights group Odhikar, who have been targeted through the misuse of the criminal

A court in Belarus on Tuesday sentenced opposition leader Sergei Tikhanovsky to 18 years in prison after he galvanised an unprecedented protest movement against strongman leader Alexander Lukashenko last year,

MANILA — Outgoing Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday formally dropped out of the Senate race in the May 2022 elections. Duterte, 76, went to the Commission on Elections to formally withdraw his candidacy for a Senate seat. (Philippines-Duterte-Candidacy Withdrawal) NEW DELHI — India Tuesday reported eight more cases of …

MANILA — Outgoing Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday formally dropped out of the Senate race in the May 2022 elections. Duterte, 76, went to the Commission on Elections to formally withdraw his candidacy for a Senate seat. (Philippines-Duterte-Candidacy Withdrawal) NEW DELHI — India Tuesday reported eight more cases of …

PROGRAMMING NOTE: Ottawa Playbook won’t publish from Dec. 20 to Dec. 31. We’ll be back on our normal schedule on Jan. 3. WELCOME TO OTTAWA PLAYBOOK, I’m your host, Nick Taylor-Vaisey. Today is fiscal update day, which means Playbook is both keeping an eye on that super-important document and also …

Matthew Johnson is appealing his conviction for the murder of Carl Williams at Barwon Prison in 2010 Prosecutors will seek to have A HIV-positive paedophile detained indefinitely because of his risk to the community.

A man has been charged with the stabbing murder of another man near a caravan park in north Queensland. Emergency services were called to an address at Paget, in Mackay's south, just before 3am on Tuesday where they found a 25-year-old Andergrove man who had allegedly been stabbed.

A policeman was killed and two others were injured in a firing incident in Rawalpindi district of Pakistan's east Punjab province, a police official said Tuesday. Unknown gunmen riding on motorcycles opened indiscriminate fire at a police party performing patrolling duty in the Pir Wadhai area of Rawalpindi district late …

Indonesian actor Rizky Nazar has been arrested for alleged drug possession, after the actor was found smoking weed at his home in East Jakarta.