Homophobia is on rise in Uganda as the government seeks an Anti-Homosexuality Bill and the minister for ethics and integrity insists that it will be every citizen's duty under new laws to denounce anyone they suspect of being gay.

Double killer Rufus Junior Marsh, a career criminal who spent just 18 months out of jail since he was 14, has died in prison.

Fijian police say it is too early to say if former All Black Robin Brooke will be charged for allegedly sexually harassing a teenage girl.

Police in Fiji have confirmed Robin Brooke is the former All Black being investigated over a sexual harassment claim.

The partner of a man who died aboard a luxury boat during a party on Auckland's Viaduct says his death was a "terrible, horrible accident".

The father of murdered schoolgirl Karlo Cardno has been sentenced to nine years in prison for indecently assaulting a minor.

Name suppression was today lifted for a woman accused of murdering a man found dead in Orewa at the weekend.

An Asperger’s sufferer in England who plotted to kill his parents was sentenced to an indefinite hospital order yesterday, despite a letter from his mother and father asking the judge for leniency for their son.

In part five of his series on 2009's big trials, Andrew Koubaridis revisits the night Tony Worrell drove into Katie Powles.

Court reporter Andrew Koubaridis looks at the case of Nai Yin Xue in the latest in his week-long series on the big trials of last year

An inquiry has been launched after a mental health worker was stabbed, kicked and had boiling water thrown over her by a patient.

Australia's fragile relations with India have taken another serious blow.

A number of high-profile trials captured public attention during 2009. First up, court reporter Andrew Koubaridis revisits the Bain retrial.