The SDLP could be poised to leave the North's Executive and take a place on the opposition benches.

South Africa’s parole review board has up to four months to conclude its decision on when Oscar Pistorius can be released from prison, a Justice Ministry spokesman said yesterday.

Enraged parents wept and screamed as a judge sentenced a South Korean ferry captain to 36 years in prison for negligence and abandoning passengers when his ship sank earlier this year, killing more than 300 people, mostly high school students.

The Simon Wiesenthal Centre has identified dozens of former members of Nazi mobile death squads who might still be alive, and is pushing the German government for an investigation.

The Simon Wiesenthal Centre has identified dozens of former members of Nazi mobile death squads who might still be alive, and is pushing the German government for an investigation.

Dutch authorities have identified 127 victims from the Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 disaster in Ukraine.

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The Dutch government is facing an unusual crisis: Prison undercrowding.

A car bomb has killed two civilians and wounded four more in eastern Baghdad on the 10th anniversary of the US-led invasion of Iraq, the day after a series of co-ordinated attacks left scores dead, officials said.

At least 22 people have been killed in a series of explosions and a gunbattle in central Baghdad.

Greek prison guards have foiled an escape attempt by helicopter involving at least four inmates, and one of them has been shot.

A Paris appeals court has rejected two of three charges against the former head of France’s domestic intelligence agency over allegedly illegal monitoring of a journalist’s phone conversations.

Japan executed two people today, including a 65-year old woman cult leader convicted of six murders that took place during supposed exorcisms.

Almost a decade after their daughter was crushed to death by an Israeli army bulldozer as she tried to block its path in a Gaza Strip conflict zone, Rachel Corrie’s parents are preparing for a judge’s ruling in their high-profile civil lawsuit against the military.

An Irish American convicted of sexually assaulting two 12-year-old girls in Dublin has escaped extradition from Britain to the US to face trial for abusing three young girls there.

Saddam Hussein’s trusted personal secretary and bodyguard was executed by hanging today, the Iraqi justice ministry said.

A Palestinian prisoner has agreed to end his 66-day hunger strike in protest over his imprisonment without charge after reaching a deal with Israel that will free him in April.

The daring jailbreak of a dangerous criminal has sparked an intense manhunt in a southern Japanese city and prompted schools to advise children to travel in supervised groups until he is caught.

Former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega will be extradited to his homeland in the next few weeks, the French Justice Ministry said.

Egypt’s civilian cabinet offered to resign after three days of violent clashes between demonstrators and security forces in Tahrir Square – but the action failed to satisfy protesters deeply frustrated with the new military rulers.

THE wife of ousted president Hosni Mubarak was released after handing over her assets to the Egyptian state, as her husband pledged to do the same in a bid to secure an amnesty.

Deposed Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak and his wife have been questioned regarding suspicions that they illegally amassed vast wealth, government officials said today.

Egypt's former president Hosni Mubarak will be detained for 15 days, the country's prosecutor general announced today, amid accusations of corruption and abuse of authority.

Greek anti-terrorist police raided at least two suspected hideouts of domestic terrorists today, detaining seven people and seizing weapons and disguises, authorities said.

Russian prime minister Vladimir Putin was sued for libel in a Moscow court today in a rare case of the Kremlin-loyal justice system agreeing to hear a case against him.

THE teenage waitress disappeared one night after her shift. After a police hunt that gripped France, her severed limbs and head were found in the waters of an abandoned quarry.

A controlled explosion has been carried out to destroy a letter bomb found outside the Greek justice ministry in the capital Athens, police said today.

NICOLAS SARKOZY appointed a new government in a marathon weekend reshuffle with faithful allies taking top posts clearly aimed at pleasing his conservative ranks before France’s 2012 presidential election.

The mother of a 10-year-old who gave birth in Spain said today she did not understand why the pregnancy had shocked people.

MORE than 230,000 Japanese citizens listed in government records as at least 100 years old can’t be found and may have died long ago, according to a government survey released yesterday.

Switzerland today rejected a US request to extradite film director Roman Polanski on a charge of having sex in 1977 with a 13-year-old girl.

Switzerland will make an announcement today about film director Roman Polanski’s extradition to the United States for a 1977 sex case.

Swiss officials said they will decide soon whether to extradite Roman Polanski to the United States to face prosecution in a 1977 sex case.

Police claimed a tenuous hold over the Jamaican slum stronghold of a wanted gang leader today, but only after fighting that left at least 48 people dead.

Los Angeles prosecutors have met a British actress who claims she was sexually abused by director Roman Polanski when she was 16 - years before she appeared in one of his films.

Roman Polanski's attorneys argued in US court filings that the Swiss government should not automatically assume an extradition request by Los Angeles prosecutors is accurate.

The Brazilian subsidiary of car giant Toyota has agreed to recall an unspecified number of Corollas due to the risk of sudden acceleration, the Justice Ministry said today.

Israel lifted months of censorship on a military espionage case today confirming the arrest of a former woman soldier charged with leaking more than 2,000 military documents to a newspaper.

Switzerland will decide on extraditing Roman Polanski after a California court rules whether he can be sentenced in his absence over a 33-year-old sex case.

A FAMILY court judge has ruled that a 7-year-old girl should be allowed to samba before a crowd of thousands as a carnival drum corps queen, a coveted role normally reserved for sultry models.

More than £1bn (€1.1bn) of UK Treasury funding for devolving policing and justice powers to the North is under threat if there is no cross-party agreement, deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness said today.

Martin McGuinness tonight revealed a meeting with Taoiseach Brian Cowen over the transferring of policing and powers was constructive.

The British and Irish governments were today told they must "step up to the plate" to prevent a crisis in the North's power-sharing government.

The North's Chief Constable today said he was happy with the £1bn (€1.1bn) financial package secured for the devolution of policing powers to the region and was ready and willing for the move to go ahead.