The international terrorist known as Carlos the Jackal has been given a life sentence for the 1974 grenade attack on a Paris shopping arcade.

A Paris court has ruled against a Catholic group hoping to call to task the Gleeden extra-marital dating site.

The Turkish government has announced close to 5,000 public workers have been stripped of their jobs.

Argentina’s former president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner has been charged over corruption allegations.

The first trial related to Turkey’s failed coup d’etat in July has opened near Istanbul.

Rome (Italy) - Municipal authorities in Italy’s two biggest cities have come under judicial scrutiny amid corruption allegations. Raffaele Marra, an aide to Mayor of Rome Virginia Raggi, has been arrested on suspicion of fraud in relation to a property deal dating back to 2013.

Russia’s Economy Minister Alexei Ulyukayev has been detained over the equivalent of an alleged 1.8 million euro bribe ($2m).

The former president of Argentina Cristina Fernandez has testified in a federal court in a corruption case.

Police in the US state of Texas said a gunman who shot and injured at least nine people on Monday was wearing military-style clothing at the time of the attack.

A white police officer in the US state of Oklahoma has been charged with first degree manslaughter after the fatal shooting of an unarmed black man whose car had broken down and blocked a road.