LAW & SOCIETY

Federal prosecutors said on Tuesday that one of the biggest online poker sites, Full Tilt Poker, was taking in millions of dollars in bets, and was claimed to be misusing the players' money.

A 54-year-old homeowner in Sydney stabbed on death on Wednesday afternoon a 30-year-old intruder armed with a stun gun.

A Perth martial artist who had killed his wife by a single punch in the head, then left her body to rot in a bedroom, has been sentenced by the WA Supreme Court today to five years in jail. The martial artist was reportedly drunk when he learned that his then estranged wife was having an affair with the best man from their wedding.

What initially looked as a chance to enhance her martial arts skill turned into a personal tragedy for New Zealander Mary Elizabeth Jones, who was lured via Facebook to travel to the Philippines where she was robbed and sexually abused.

Time and again we have always been told - don't drive when drunk.Drunk driving, in this case, boat driving, took the life of an 18-year-old young man Monday afternoon after he was caught in the propellers of a hired boat in Sydney Harbour.

An intoxicated epileptic driver crashed into a man causing his death in November. The court that heard the case merely asked the driver to pay a fine of $500 and advised to stay away from driving for five months.

Julia Gillard will open a democratic debate at the Labor Party's National Conference in December.

An ex-Samsung manager has admitted that he leaked early information about the iPad to representatives from an "expert network" firm and a hedge fund

Australians who are neither male nor female can categorize their gender as "x" in their passports as the government has made the option official in the document.

Crimes committed by adolescents are alarmingly increasing since 2006.

South Korean women will be assigned with more combative posts beginning 2012.

Gina Hancock Rinehart, head of Hancock Prospecting and currently the richest person in Australia, won the approval of the court to settle the legal disputes with her children in private.

In the latest assault against children in China, six people were killed.

A human-error-led train collision resulted in nine casualties including the on-duty train guard in India.

Efforts of Chinese authorities bear positive results after six months of investigation on the "gutter" cooking oil" that proliferates on the market.

News International chief executive James Murdoch is to be invited a second time before a parliamentary committee over a phone-hacking scandal involving his newspaper and hired journalists, CNN reported.

After an overnight stay on board a patrol vessel of Japanese coast guard, the government is inclined to give in to nine North Korean defectors' request.

Federal investigation has begun to find out whether eBay misappropriated confidential information from Craigslist, according to a Reuters report.

Government officials of South Korea consider proposing talks with Japan over the issue of South Korean "comfort women" who were subjected to brutality by the Japanese Imperial Army during World War II, Korea Times reported on Tuesday.

The United States government grants tax incentives to companies working on medical breakthroughs, urban redevelopment and alternatives to fossil fuels, the results of which could improve lives worldwide. However, the US government also grants tax breaks for the video game industry. Tax analysts are asking, “Why?” In a country that provides tax breaks for a company that created a video game about killing space zombies, tax analysts are baffled, to say the least.

An international human rights group demanded that Vietnam close down drug rehabilitation centers that are subjecting inmates to abuse and forced labor.

Auckland barrister Mark van Leewarden said 67 people from NZ invested and all together lost $6.7 million over a period of five years when they trusted a Hamilton man now living in Panama. The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) confirmed on Wednesday it had investigated a complaint about Tony Lusby and his investment scheme, but they could not act on the Kiwis behalf.

The parents of an English schoolgirl of Pakistani descent, who went missing eight years ago have appeared in court charged with her murder.

Having a snake as pet in NZ, gets jail time.

A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said on Wednesday that the pending sale of 66 F-16 aircrafts from the United States to Taiwan may sever the peaceful development of Sino-US and cross-Strait relations.

The alleged victim, Johnny Jean, and his mother, Rose Marie Jean, told Haitian radio stations he had been raped by Uruguayan marines and provided testimony to a judge in the southern town of Port-Salut, where the incident allegedly took place on July 28.

Qantas pilots have lost a dispute with the airline and its New Zealand subsidiary, Jetconnect.

As British parliamentary hearings on the Murdoch empire's phone hacking scandal resumed Tuesday, James Murdoch's credibility came under more doubt.

The Chinese government through its Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Jiang Yu has validated Libyan opposition spokesman Abdel Raham Busim’s statement that earlier this year, communist China accommodated Muammar Gaddafi’s forces in hope to purchase firearms and other high-caliber guns following the Libyan rebellion, reports said.