Oscar Pistorius is severely traumatised after killing girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp last year and will become an increasing suicide risk unless he continues to get mental health care, the judge overseeing his murder trial heard.

Oscar Pistorius is severely traumatised after killing girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp and will become an increasing suicide risk unless he continues to get mental health care, the judge overseeing his murder trial has heard.

Testimony in the murder trial of Oscar Pistorius focused on a pillar of the prosecution’s case — screams neighbours said they heard on the night his girlfriend died.

The murder trial of Oscar Pistorius is focusing on the screams that neighbours say they heard on the night the athlete killed his girlfriend.

A judge has temporarily adjourned the murder trial of Oscar Pistorius after the athlete started to sob while testifying about the moments before he killed girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp in his home last year.

The mother of Reeva Steenkamp has said she does not care whether her daughter's killer Oscar Pistorius walks free from his murder trial - but admits she cannot take her eyes from him as he sits in the courtroom.

Oscar Pistorius has said said he is going through “a tough time” in a rare comment after the prosecution closed its case against the double-amputee runner for the killing of his girlfriend.

The prosecution in Oscar Pistorius’s murder trial has closed its case and the defence has asked for time to approach some of the 107 state witnesses who did not give evidence.

The chief lawyer for Oscar Pistorius has sought to show that the athlete had a loving relationship with the girlfriend he killed, referring to telephone messages in which they exchanged warm compliments and said they missed each other.

“They should have the death penalty for people like me,” Adrian Bayley told police after admitting he raped and strangled Jill Meagher in a Melbourne laneway.

Hungary is investigating whether a Holocaust-era war criminal has been living in the capital Budapest, as international and domestic groups clamoured for him to be placed on trial.

Police investigating the murder of Michaela McAreavey have diced with justice and risked the reputation of Mauritius by accusing a man who could not have physically committed the crime, his trial was warned.

The widower of honeymooner Michaela McAreavey could return to the witness box to change evidence he gave to the trial of two men accused of her murder.

The widower of murdered honeymooner Michaela McAreavey has moved to correct part of the evidence he gave to the trial of two men accused of the crime.

John McAreavey’s frantic bid to revive the body of his lifeless bride Michaela was outlined in harrowing detail as prosecutors opened the case against the men accused of her murder.

John McAreavey’s frantic bid to revive his wife Michaela were outlined in harrowing detail as prosecutors opened the case against the men accused of her murder in Mauritius.

Hosni Mubarak is "politically and legally" responsible for the killing of protesters during the 18-day uprising that toppled his regime last year, his trial heard today.

International judges ordered the arrest today of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi for murdering civilians, as world leaders stepped up calls for him to end his rule.

UN investigators are looking into allegations that Colonel Gaddafi ordered mass rapes to curb the popular uprising in his country.

Swedish prosecutors have withdrawn an arrest warrant for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, saying the rape suspicions against him are unfounded.

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is vowing to "destroy those responsible" for the Moscow metro suicide attacks.

A car bomb ripped open cars and storefronts in the administrative centre of Colombia’s Pacific port of Buenaventura, killing six people and wounding more than 30, authorities said.

Iran accused Britain of helping stir up unrest that has led to deadly street clashes in the country and summoned its ambassador to complain today.

An Indian judge has accepted the confession of the lone surviving gunman from last November’s shootings in Mumbai, but said today that the trial would proceed anyway.

THE lone surviving gunman in the Mumbai attacks has said he is ready to go to the gallows and wants no mercy from the court for his role in one of India’s worst terrorist acts, which left 166 people dead.

Former Liberian president Charles Taylor, accused of running a murderous band of rebels in pursuit of a fortune in blood diamonds, will tell the world he did nothing wrong when he takes the witness box at his war crimes trial tomorrow.

Former Liberian President Charles Taylor today boycotted the landmark first international war crimes trial of a former African leader being held in The Hague, Netherlands.

A teenager detained over the killing of an ethnic Armenian journalist has confessed to the killing, the prosecutor said today.

POLAND’S chief prosecutor yesterday ordered an investigation into allegations that Deputy Prime Minister Andrzej Lepper solicited sex from a woman in exchange for giving her a job with his political party, the government said.

One of Saddam Hussein’s lawyers was killed today after he was abducted from his home by men wearing police uniforms in Baghdad.

Saddam Hussein’s defence lawyers ended their month-long boycott of his Baghdad trial, attending proceedings today even though the judge rejected their demands that he step down.

AS THE Serbian nation went on trial for genocide in The Hague yesterday, the EU gave the country until the end of March to turn over Ratko Mladic to the war crimes tribunal in the Dutch capital.

Saddam Hussein’s lawyers will attend this week’s trial session, a month after they walked out in protest and accusing the chief judge of being biased against their client, one of the lawyers said today.

BOSNIAN Serb war crimes fugitive General Ratko Mladic has been located and was last night negotiating his surrender, according to Serbian security officials.

BOSNIAN Serb war crimes fugitive General Ratko Mladic has been located and was last night negotiating his surrender, according to Serbian security officials.

Iraqi court officials today denied reports that two court employees attacked Saddam Hussein and punched him several times after he cursed two Shiite Islam saints.

Three gunmen in a speeding car killed a defence lawyer in the Saddam Hussein trial and wounded another today in Western Baghdad.

The International Criminal Court is to launch a formal investigation into allegations of war crimes in Sudan’s troubled Darfur region.

Indonesian prosecutors have appealed a 30-month sentence handed down to militant cleric Abu Bakar Bashir for conspiracy in the 2002 Bali bombings – a move likely to please Australia and the US, which are hoping for a longer sentence against the preacher.

Dutch police stormed a house tonight to end a day long siege of terror suspects holed up inside. Three suspects were arrested.

Dutch police were laying siege to a house in The Hague today where an unknown number of terrorism suspects were holed up.

Three Dutch policemen were injured by a hand grenade during a terrorism-related raid on a house in The Hague today.

A US Army specialist was sentenced to eight months confinement today after he admitted abusing inmates at Abu Ghraib prison.

A SWEDISH appeals court threw out a life prison sentence for the convicted killer of Foreign Minister Anna Lindh, ruling that Mijailo Mijailovic should receive psychiatric treatment.