The UN's top human rights official said today that there should be no amnesty for serious crimes committed in Syria, even if the threat of prosecution might motivate members of the regime to cling to power at all costs.

Judges at an international war crimes court have sentenced former Liberian President Charles Taylor to 50 years in prison.

Judges will today pass sentence on former Liberian President Charles Taylor for supporting rebels in Sierra Leone who murdered and mutilated thousands during their country’s brutal civil war.

The chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Court is in line to be appointed as FIFA’s first head of the new ethics committee’s investigations arm.

Former Liberian president Charles Taylor yesterday said witnesses had been threatened and paid to testify against him in a trial that found him guilty of crimes against humanity.

Convicted war criminal and former Liberian president Charles Taylor said during his sentencing hearing that he sympathises with victims of the civil war in Sierra Leone he helped foment, and asked judges to render their sentence against him in a spirit of “reconciliation, not retribution”.

Ratko Mladic was a shadow of the swaggering general who once “held Sarajevo in the palm of his hand” during Bosnia’s 1992-95 war as his long-awaited genocide trial opened – but he still managed to inflame Bosnia’s festering war wounds with the flick of his hand.

Former Bosnian Serb army chief Ratko Mladic goes on trial this week in a case that will establish if he was responsible for some of the worst atrocities in Europe since Second World War.

Fighters in Sierra Leone raped and killed Halimatu Jalloh’s sister during the country’s civil war, but last night the 27-year-old student felt the pain of her loss ease with the conviction of Charles Taylor, the Liberian leader who backed the rebels.

In a historic ruling, an international court today convicted former Liberian President Charles Taylor of aiding and abetting war crimes and crimes against humanity for supporting brutal rebels in neighbouring Sierra Leone in return for “blood diamonds”.

Former Liberian President Charles Taylor was today found guilty of aiding and abetting war crimes and crimes against humanity by supporting brutal Sierra Leone rebels in return for blood diamonds.

The Irish soldier responsible for transferring African dictator Charles Taylor to the International Court in Hague to answer charges of war crimes was last night honoured with a civic reception to mark his retirement.

Three women have won the Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of the importance of women’s roles in the spread of global peace, writes Bjoern Amland.

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Leymah Gbowee used different tactics to confront thugs and killers in war-ravaged Liberia.

Supermodel Naomi Campbell is considering suing the Kraft Foods-owned chocolate maker Cadbury, over an advertising campaign she claimed was racist.

Former Liberian president Charles Taylor has again boycotted his war crimes trial in the Netherlands and his lawyer has asked for permission to appeal over the judges’ decision to reject his final written summary of the defence case.

CHARLES TAYLOR’S war crimes trial is ending the way it began — with the former Liberian president boycotting proceedings and claiming they are politically motivated and unfair.

Charles Taylor’s lawyer has stormed out of court after judges refused to accept a written summary of the former Liberian president’s defence case at the end of his war crimes trial in the Netherlands.

Defence lawyers for former Liberian ruler Charles Taylor say they will call a final witness at his war crimes trial.

The South African charity boss said to have been given diamonds by supermodel Naomi Campbell is facing criminal charges.

The former head of Nelson Mandela’s children’s charity is being tried on charges of possessing uncut diamonds that featured in a recent war crimes trial.

Naomi Campbell has “made peace” with herself.

An appeal court in Thailand ruled today to extradite suspected Russian arms smuggler Viktor Bout to the United States, effectively ending a nearly 25-year chase for the man dubbed The Merchant of Death.

THE appearance by Naomi Campbell and Mia Farrow at the Sierra Leone war crimes tribunal counts as one of the more bizarre events of recent times.

THE continuing saga of the supermodel Naomi Campbell, the alleged war criminal Charles Taylor and blood diamonds has proven irresistible for the broadcast and print media.

NAOMI Campbell’s bravery and selflessness in testifying at the war crimes trial of Charles Taylor — for brave and selfless is clearly what she believes herself to be — may have been under-appreciated by the world at large but one woman would empathise with her.

Naomi Campbell said she had "nothing to gain" from lying during her evidence to the war crimes trial of former Liberian leader Charles Taylor.

NAOMI CAMPBELL’S former agent was accused yesterday of telling a “complete pack of lies” about a gift to the supermodel of alleged “blood diamonds”.

Supermodel Naomi Campbell tonight said she had nothing to gain from telling anything other than the truth at the war crimes trial of former Liberian leader Charles Taylor.

Naomi Campbell’s former agent was accused today of telling a “complete pack of lies” about a gift to the supermodel of alleged “blood diamonds”.

Naomi Campbell's former agent was accused today of lying when she claimed the supermodel knowingly received "blood diamonds" from former Liberian president Charles Taylor.

SUPERMODEL Naomi Campbell’s evidence in the trial against former Liberian president Charles Taylor has been dramatically challenged by witnesses.

Supermodel Naomi Campbell’s evidence in the trial against former Liberian president Charles Taylor was dramatically challenged today.

Supermodel Naomi Campbell named Charles Taylor as the person who gave her a “huge diamond”, actress Mia Farrow told the former Liberian leader’s war crimes trial today.

Supermodel Naomi Campbell said she received a “huge diamond” from Charles Taylor, actress Mia Farrow told the former Liberian leader’s war crimes trial in The Hague today.

Naomi Campbell’s testimony about alleged blood diamonds at a war crimes trial will come under scrutiny today.

The charity official who model Naomi Campbell gave her alleged blood diamonds to said today he had passed them to police in South Africa.

Actress Mia Farrow will give evidence at the war trial of Charles Taylor at the Hague next week.

A SURLY Naomi Campbell described her appearance in court as a “big inconvenience.”

PROSECUTORS were yesterday accused of scoring a “spectacular own goal” after calling supermodel Naomi Campbell as a witness in the war crimes trial of former Liberian leader Charles Taylor.

Prosecutors were today accused of scoring a “spectacular own goal” after calling supermodel Naomi Campbell as a witness in the war crimes trial of former Liberian leader Charles Taylor.

Supermodel Naomi Campbell was accused of being not “entirely truthful” today after telling the war crimes trial of Charles Taylor how she was woken in the night and given a pouch containing “small, dirty-looking stones” following a charity dinner.

Supermodel Naomi Campbell told the war crimes trial of Charles Taylor today that she was woken in the night and given a pouch containing “small, dirty looking stones” after a charity dinner.

Supermodel Naomi Campbell told a court today that she met former Liberian leader Charles Taylor for the “first time” at a dinner hosted by Nelson Mandela.