An Israeli court has convicted a polygamist cult leader of sex crimes after he kept a harem of women who bore him dozens of children in a state of near total obedience.

Herman Koch

Bryan Singer has been hit with a second sexual abuse lawsuit.

Hollywood director Bryan Singer’s lawyer says claims by a former aspiring actor that the X-Men director molested him when he was a teenager are “completely fabricated”.

The luxurious home belonging to deposed Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych has been invaded by protesters today.

Protesters took control of Ukraine’s capital on Saturday, seizing the president’s home and office as parliament sought to oust him.

Flying into a storm at Belgian airports

Serial killer Joanna Dennehy took a grinning selfie photograph of herself as she searched out further victims.

Although it mightn’t seem like it at first, but today’s column is about Rory McIlroy.

Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper is seeking to break a deadlock in trade talks with the EU by stepping up his part in negotiations, people familiar with the strategy said.

Lance Armstrong could be called before a Texas court after a lawsuit was filed by SCA Promotions in an effort to recoup more than 12 million US dollars from the disgraced cyclist.

Lance Armstrong is considering whether to publicly confess to his doping past, according to reports in the United States.

Another man is suing the former Elmo puppeteer who resigned amid sex abuse allegations, claiming the voice actor befriended him in Miami and promised to be a father figure before flying the teenager to New York to have sex with him.

The attitude toward disability — a term that may well become redundant in favour of “differently abled” — has changed dramatically.

Lance Armstrong’s lawyer revealed the only reason the Texan would refuse a lie detector test was because he had “moved on”.

Lance Armstrong’s lawyer has revealed the cyclist might take a lie detector test in an attempt to prove he is innocent of doping allegations, but admitted few people would believe the results even if they showed he was telling the truth.

Eddie Izzard is set to join a remake of 'The Munsters'.

A settlement being hammered out between BP and victims of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill finally provides a system for monitoring health concerns and compensating people with illnesses linked to the disaster.

Germany has agreed after a year of tough negotiations to pay pensions to about 16,000 additional Holocaust victims all over the world.

Republican presidential hopeful Herman Mr Cain has promised to “set the record straight” over claims he sexually assaulted a woman.

REPUBLICAN presidential candidate Rick Perry denied charges from rival Herman Cain that his campaign was responsible for leaking accusations of sexual harassment that have shaken Cain’s 2012 White House bid.

ROUND ONE to Tottenham Hotspur.

DAVID HERMAN (Letters, January 16) was refused entry to the US because his “passport was rejected on a new and purely technical ground”.

Bankable will bid for Group One success at the Melbourne Spring Carnival next month after obliging as the odds-on favourite in the Fortune Stakes at Sandown.

A Polish Meath resident who bit off part of a man’s ear in an assault in McDonald’s on O’Connell Street has been given a two-year sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

ROGUE solicitor Michael Lynn is unlikely to be toasting the authorities after his vintage collection of fine wines and spirits was yesterday sold at auction under the orders of the Dublin City Sheriff.

A HUGE wine collection belonging to fugitive solicitor Michael Lynn will go under the hammer in Dublin next week.

A quarter of Germans believe there were at least some positive aspects to Nazi rule, a poll showed today.

DUBLIN actress Sarah Bolger has been signed up to star in a new Hollywood movie based on an extraordinary love story which began at a Nazi concentration camp.

Indonesian prosecutors today charged militant cleric Abu Bakar Bashir with ordering his followers to launch a suicide attack on a Jakarta hotel last year.

CATHERINE Zeta-Jones’s alleged stalker must stand trial on 25 criminal counts against her, a judge ruled yesterday.

A woman accused of threatening to kill actress Catherine Zeta-Jones and “feed her to the dogs” is mentally fit to stand trial, a psychiatrist has concluded.

The woman accused of stalking Oscar-winning actress Catherine Zeta-Jones has had a psychiatrist appointed to examine her.

A psychiatrist has been appointed to examine a woman accused of stalking actress Catherine Zeta-Jones.

A Los Angeles judge has ordered a psychological evaluation for a woman accused of stalking Oscar-winning actress Catherine Zeta-Jones at the request of a defence lawyer who claimed outside court that the star had driven her to attempt suicide.

A hearing for a woman accused of sending letters that threatened Oscar-winning actress Catherine Zeta-Jones was postponed because the alleged stalker was groggy from sleeping pills, the defendant’s lawyer said.

The woman accused of harassing Catherine Zeta-Jones and Michael Douglas faces 24 stalking charges and a possible 20 years in prison.

A woman charged with stalking and threatening to kill Catherine Zeta-Jones sent a letter to the Oscar-winning actress apologising for any “distress” she caused, a court heard today.

Herman, the world’s first farm animal carrying a human gene, sired 55 calves and outlived them all.