A coroner says the 2012 murder of Irish woman Jill Meagher by a serial rapist in Australia was “preventable” as her killer should have been behind bars at the time.

Magistrate Desmond Nair has granted bail to paralympic athlete Oscar Pistorius at a court in Pretoria today.

Two Solomon Islands Cabinet ministers were refused bail today so they could leave prison to take up their posts, the nation’s Magistrate’s Court ruled.

Hundreds turned out today to support dismissed South Africa deputy president Jacob Zuma as he made his second court appearance on corruption charges.

SHACKLED and surrounded by 19 officers in a cinder-block jail room, the suspect in a rampage that left a judge and three others dead appeared before a magistrate yesterday and was informed that authorities plan to charge him with murder.