The former head of China’s football league goes to trial over corruption charges, the latest in a series of cases to hit the sport, state media report.
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China football chief trial starts
Former Ukrainian PM Yulia Tymoshenko denounces her trial over alleged abuse of office as a “political lynching”, in a fiery closing statement.
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Tymoshenko calls trial ‘lynching’
Former US baseball star Barry Bonds is found guilty of obstruction of justice following a trial over whether he lied about having taken steroids.
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Ex-US baseball star Bonds guilty
Barry Bonds was convicted of obstructing justice after a trial over whether he lied about taking steroids. But the jury failed to reach a verdict on other counts.
Up to 20,000 people in Indian-administered Kashmir have been detained without trial over the last two decades under a draconian Indian law, Amnesty International says.
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‘Draconian’ Kashmir law condemned
Ichiro Ozawa, a leading figure in Japan’s ruling DPJ, says he has refused a request from PM Naoto Kan that he leave the party while on trial over fundraising fraud allegations.
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Japan’s Ozawa will not quit party
A Labour MP tells jurors he was worried that a former colleague Jim Devine, on trial over his expenses, was “going into a dark place”.
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‘Dark place’ fear for expenses MP
Two Labour MPs deny advising a colleague on trial over his expenses that he could make claims from one allowance to cover staffing costs.
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MPs deny Devine expenses advice
Former Labour MP Jim Devine’s trial over his expenses claims is due to start at Southwark Crown Court.
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Ex-MP faces trial over expenses
A Conservative peer has denied “selective amnesia” over expenses advice given to a colleague on trial over his claims.
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Peer denies ‘amnesia’ on expenses
A relative of a peer standing trial over his expenses tells the court he was shocked to learn his address had been used on claim forms.
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Nephew shocked at peer’s expenses
A Continental Airlines mechanic was found guilty Monday in a trial over the Concorde crash that killed 113 people in 2000.
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Mechanic guilty in Concorde crash
A judge rules that an 84-year-old pensioner is too ill to face a trial over claims she had breached an Asbo put in place to protect her neighbours from abuse.
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Asbo OAP ‘too ill’ to face trial
Kenya’s president suspends Higher Education Minister William Ruto, after a court rules he must stand trial over corruption allegations.
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Kenya’s minister Ruto suspended
Rip Torn’s hopes of avoiding a trial over his arrest for breaking into a bank while carrying a gun are dashed by a judge in Connecticut.
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Torn break-in case to go to trial
