Two Australian radio presenters who duped a nurse at the hospital which treated Prince William’s pregnant wife Catherine will not return “until further notice”, their station said today after the woman was found dead.

The Indian couple facing criminal charges of child abuse were convicted today by a district court here with the father getting an 18-month jail term and mother being sentenced to 15 months.

Egypt's top court on Sunday suspended its work indefinitely to protest ‘psychological and physical Pressures’ by Islamist supporters of President Mohamed Mursi who prevented judges from entering the court house, worsening a conflict between the judiciary and the head of state.

Former Australia Captain Ricky Ponting was given a highly unusual guard of honour by South Africa's players as he came out to bat in his last ever Test innings Monday.

In a reprieve to Indian infrastructure major GMR, the Singapore high court today stayed the Maldives government’s decision to terminate the $500 million contract awarded to a consortium led by it for modernising the Male international airport.

The Indian couple arrested here in an alleged child abuse case have been charged with ‘gross repeated maltreatment’ of their child for which the prosecution has proposed a minimum sentence of one year and three months for the parents.

British Prime Minister David Cameron on Thursday indicated he would reject a senior judge's recommendations for new laws to control the country's press despite the publication of a damning report.

French industrial renewal minister Arnaud Montebourg does not want steel giant ArcelorMittal in France anymore and is looking for an industrial partner with which to take the group's operations there over on a temporary basis, he said today in an interview.

In what could be the world’s oldest murder mystery, an Egyptian mummy on display in the British Museum for over a century was found by researchers to have been murdered.

Ireland's government pledged on Thursday to clarify its abortion laws after an Indian woman who was refused a termination died from blood poisoning in an Irish hospital.