Tony Abbott has reportedly visited convicted paedophile George Pell in a Melbourne prison on Monday.

Mark Rumble, 31, from Oxfordshire, was sent back to the UK from Thailand to face charges of a conspiracy to supply class A drugs and collapsed in prison days later.

Patrick Crusius who is in custody over the El Paso shooting massacre which left 22 people dead has been placed on suicide watch in jail in Texas based on a medical determination.

Membership of Islamic State (IS) is a hanging offence in Syria and President Bashar al-Assad has now said members of IS in the country will be brought to justice.

A judge was satisfied that Ahmed Hassan lied about his age to remain in the UK. He was convicted of attempting to kill 93 commuters with a homemade bomb at Parsons Green station.

The man, named only as Antoine, who got out the prison two months ago, heard one of his notes had been found by Florence Widdicombe in London (pictured) after he returned home to Nigeria.

Anna Burns appeared at Swindon Crown Court, in Wiltshire, for another offence, and when she was bailed she walked 750 yards to a Boots shop and stole £60 of make up.

Quaker oats were slid into sachets before being wrapped in bags with an English-language leaflet at Shanghai's Qingpu prison, four prisoners released within the last year have said.

Hiran Chauhan, 24, went to the home of Neil Cuckson, 32, after they chatted on dating app Grindr and discussed taking drugs, Manchester Crown Court heard.

Laura Ouandjli admitted lying about being in the Carillon bar in Paris, where 15 people were murdered by ISIS terrorists on November 13 last year and has been jailed for a year.

EXCLUSIVE: David Haigh, former Managing Director of Leeds United, spent 22 months in jail in Dubai after being accused of falsifying invoices and channelling funds to a secret bank account.

Michaela Sheldrake, 41, was jailed for seven years at Leeds Crown Court after being caught with a huge hoard of child porn. She had also taken hundreds of indecent pictures of a girl under 16.

Emma Taylor told a court how she has been left devastated after her sons Logan, 3, and Jake, 2 (pictured together), died in a fire at their home in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire.

Leeds Crown Court heard the victim was taken to the south Asian country on the pretence that she and her family would celebrate Eid together, but was then told by her parents that they had set up a wedding.

David Hernández Colula, an undocumented male immigrant from Mexico, died Thursday by apparent suicide at a jail in Ohio, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said Friday.

A 37-year-old Mexican immigrant being held at the Bergen County Jail, which houses dozens of other undocumented migrants.

Adam Raynor was initially arrested at the French terminal of the Channel Tunnel in June 2019 after the Chinese and Vietnamese nationals were found in the back of his car.

Ahmed Farah, 30, was sent to his birthplace by British authorities after he was freed from jail for a knife raid in Southall, West London in 2010. He would now like the chance to return to the UK.

The victim and his younger brother were walking through Craigieburn Central shopping centre's carpark in Melbourne when they were set upon by seven boys.

A burglar terrorised two women in a Melbourne home in the 1980s, putting a shotgun to their heads as they enjoyed a catch up over coffee.

Nicholas David Weston was found guilty of four counts of rape over the horror stay at his Melbourne CBD apartment in November 2017.

Ricardo 'Rick' Barbaro is on the run after police named him as a suspect in the death of his girlfriend Ellie Price.

A con artist who hoodwinked four New South Wales judges with sham medical reports claiming he had terminal cancer is set to be jailed.

The reference to 2013 suggests the charges are likely to relate to Mr Palmer's business dealings in Western Australia, rather than his collapsed Queensland Nickel refinery.

On Friday, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz got a haircut at a Dallas salon that has become a symbol of protest against stay-at-home orders. Friday, May 8, was the first day salons were allowed to reopen in Texas.Salon A La Mode owner Shelley Luther was arrested and sentenced to seven days in jail this week for defying Texas' emergency order and keeping her Dallas salon open, then ignoring a cease and desist order.Luther was freed Thursday after Republican Gov. Greg Abbott intervened, changing the emergency order to eliminate jail time as a punishment.Luther has become a hero for conservatives and Republicans who oppose stay at home orders.Critics argue the orders, which are in place in many states to slow the spread of coronavirus, negatively impact the economy and constitute government overreach.Polling

James Joseph Lafferty, 47, was arrested in Grafton, NSW at 11pm on Friday night accused of breaching a court-order taken out by the singer to prevent him contacting her.

Sergey Kazakov, 35, made the boy kneel on the grains for up to nine hours at a time. The punishment - approved by his mother Alina Yumasheva, 27 - was at one point inflicted on ten consecutive days.

GRAPHIC CONTENT: Maxim Gareyev, 33, a highly-educated IT worker from Moscow, has been jailed for the murder of 24-year-old Ekaterina Semochkina after stabbing her to death.

A former rugby league star (pictured) has been jailed for smuggling exotic animals to pay off a $25,000 debt.  

Julia Ann Poff pleaded guilty in Houston federal court in July to transporting homemade explosives with intent to kill, injure or intimidate. She was jailed for 10 years yesterday.

Former Illinois Governor Rod R. Blagojevich has claimed that current House Democrats would have tried to impeach President Abraham Lincoln for 'abuse of power.'

Move to help 1,000 female criminals over the next two years has been launched by London Mayor Sadiq Khan after research found women are more likely to be imprisoned for a first-time offence.

David Shipley from Buckinghamshire, was today sentenced to three years and nine months imprisonment and disqualified from being a director for seven years.

A mother-of-two from North Korea is under investigation by the Ministry of State Security after she saved her children from a fire but failed to rescue portraits of the country's leaders.

A former Channel Seven reality TV star sobbed as a judge sentenced her to up to four years' jail time for dealing heroin after hearing how she abused four different drugs a day following her brush with fame.

Melbourne club promoter William Cabantog, 36, was arrested on July 9 for alleged cocaine possession at Lost City Nightclub in resort precinct, Canggu.

Sunshine Coast cabinet maker Zac Whiting, 18, has been locked up since allegedly assaulting guard Adni Junus Liu outside a Burger King in Kuta on Friday morning.

William Cabantog and David Van Iersel were found guilty after being accused of having 1.12 grams of the drug at the Lost City nightclub in Canggu in July.

A pedophile who filmed and photographed himself sexually abusing 47 boys across four countries will spent at least 28 years behind bars.

People who are believed to have contracted the disease are told to stay at home for 14 days, as well as those who have been in contact with anybody who had been in South Korea, China, Iran or Italy.

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's temporary leave from prison in Tehran, Iran, in response to the Covid-19 epidemic, has been extended by two weeks and will now run until April 18.

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's temporary release from an Iranian jail has been extended for one month, with her husband revealing how the family have been video calling every day for several hours.

Alexanda Kotey, 35, is in custody in northern Syria. Kotey, from London, has been accused of torturing IS hostages and reported that CPS has evidence to charge him with murder.

A factory worker stockpiled weapons and supplies including 14 exploding Kinder Eggs at his home to prepare for an apocalypse, a court heard (pictured, Daniel Magee).

Wealthy businessman James Froomberg, 63, who lives in a five-bedroom detached house in Edgware, North London, admitted three charges of making the indecent images.

Anwar Batson, 29, of Notting Hill, West London, used a hacking program called 'Sentry MBA' while carrying out the offences. He admitted four charges at Southwark Crown Court today.

Keith Butterley, 43, from Sheffield, threatened to jump from the building with the toddler, before making on a bike with the child balanced on the handle bars.

Anwar Batson has been jailed for nine months after pleading guilty to four offences under the Computer Misuse Act, at Southwark Crown Court today. He used 'Sentry MBA' programme.

South African prison bosses have hit back at 'inaccurate, serious allegations' in the Oscar Pistorius trial that the country's jails are violent and disease-ridden. 

Khalil Subjee - known as The General - said he would 'take out' the double-amputee if his fame and wealth bought him an easy time behind bars, the Pretoria court heard today.