The government is considering whether to allow some sentencing in English courts to be televised, it has emerged.

Justice Secretary Ken Clarke says most of the recent rioters were known criminals whose behaviour had not been addressed by the "broken penal system".

England boss Fabio Capello makes special plans to stop Wales dangerman Gareth Bale in Tuesday's Euro 2012 qualifier.

Italian police defend in court the evidence used to convict Amanda Knox of the murder of British student Meredith Kercher in Italy in 2007.

Suppliers of trainmaker Bombardier are likely to make redundancies due to the loss of the £1.4bn Thameslink contract, a survey finds.

An inspection of the removal of detainees to Nigeria and Jamaica raises concerns, saying some escorts were "unacceptably unprofessional".

The trial of former French President Jacques Chirac, on charges of illegal party funding during his time as mayor of Paris, opens in his absence.

A man with a suspicious backpack - possibly a bomb - is holding a child at a courthouse in a suburb of the Australian city of Sydney, local media say.