An Indonesian pop star who rocked the predominantly Muslim nation after several home-made sex tapes found their way to the internet was sentenced today to three and a half years in jail.

RADOVAN KARADZIC appeared at his UN war crimes trial yesterday for the first time since it began last week, claiming his “fundamental rights have been violated” by judges who started without him.

Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic appeared at his UN war crimes trial today for the first time since the case began.

A UN war crimes tribunal sentenced a former governor in Rwanda to life in prison today after finding that he was one of the main perpetrators of genocide in the African country in 1994.

A top Indonesian court has rejected a claim by three convicted Bali bombers that their executions by firing squad would violate the constitution.

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 German federal appeals court today convicted a friend of three of the September 11 suicide pilots of accessory to murder for his alleged role in their plot and sent the case back to a lower court for sentencing.

A DUTCH court has ruled in favour of the extradition to Greece of an Irishman wanted in connection with a €50 million cannabis seizure.

The man who confessed to killing Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn was jailed for 18 years today for the first political assassination in the Netherlands since the Second World War.

A Moroccan student accused of aiding the Hamburg terrorist cell involved in the September 11 attacks on the US went to Afghanistan in 2000 and attended a training camp there, his lawyer said yesterday.

AN Indonesian court yesterday found the youngest son of former dictator Suharto guilty of paying two hit men to murder a Supreme Court justice and sentenced him to 15 years in jail.