A Hong Kong court has ruled that a local tycoon can sue Google for defamation because searches for his name on Google suggest adding the word ‘triad’, Hong Kong’s notorious organised crime groups.

An American wife serving life in Hong Kong for murdering her wealthy banker husband after drugging his milkshake returned to court today to appeal against her conviction.

Prosecutors today accused 13 men charged with treason after an armed coup of trying to set up a ‘‘government at gunpoint’’ in Fiji.