Simon Power is considering whether jurors' addresses should ever be handed out, amid reports a convicted killer was able to contact a juror.

A row has arisen over the release of the Lockerbie bomber.

Universities may have to rethink their policies on staff-student relationships, following the Sophie Elliott case.

Police are hunting for a killer after admitting for the first time last night they believe missing escort Carmen Thomas is dead.

Scott Watson's father says he was hoping for a better outcome from a review of the investigation into the controversial 1999 case.

The release of a man suspected of several abductions of young women in Ireland has caused a frenzy of fear among locals.

Two more people have been shot dead in Melbourne, just hours after the slaying of crime patriarch Macchour Chaouk.

Police in Melbourne are preparing for revenge attacks after a gangland shooting yesterday.

A premonition about missing Aussie youngster Kiesha Abrahams leads a psychic to a dead woman's torso wrapped in plastic at a reserve in Sydney's west.

Janet Moses died as a result of accidental drowning by way of manslaughter, Wellington regional coroner Ian Smith has found.

The man accused of the stabbing death of NZ-born nurse Michelle Beets allegedly held a knife to his brother-in law's throat to practise the killing, a Sydney court was told today.

A man has been killed in an election-related brawl in the Solomon Islands.