SIERRA LEONE PEACE DIAMOND NETS $6.5 MILLION IN AUCTION TO RAISE FUNDS FOR WEST AFRICAN NATION

The United Nations lifted a ban on diamond exports from Sierra Leone in 2003, though the 113 million sector is plagued by smuggling... READ MORE›

ONE OF WORLD'S LARGEST DIAMONDS FETCHES $6.5 MILLION TO DEAL WITH SMUGGLERS IN THE WEST AFRICAN NATION

The United Nations lifted a ban on diamond exports from Sierra Leone in 2003, but the multi-million dollar sector is still plagued by smuggling... READ MORE›

GIANT 'PEACE DIAMOND' SELLS FOR $6.5M

A giant 709-carat diamond unearthed in Sierra Leone has sold at auction in New York for 6.5m ?4.8m ... READ MORE›

SIERRA LEONE APPEALS FOR URGENT HELP FOR FLOOD VICTIMS

Paolo Conteh, the interior minister, told Sierra Leone's state broadcaster that thousands of people remained missing... READ MORE›

PAKISTANI CHRISTIAN WOMAN SENTENCED TO HANG FOR BLASPHEMY MAKES LAST APPEAL

Amnesty International has raised serious concerns about the fairness of her trial and has called for her release... READ MORE›

JAMES HOLMES SPARED DEATH PENALTY FOR US CINEMA KILLINGS

Profile Aurora gunman James Holmes In July, Holmes was convicted on 165 counts of murder, attempted murder and an explosives charge over the shootings in Aurora, Colorado... READ MORE›

SIERRA LEONE DECLARED FREE OF EBOLA TRANSMISSIONS

In Sierra Leone, the hardest hit of any nation during the Ebola outbreak, nearly 4,000 people died from the disease altogether 14,000 were infected... READ MORE›

SIERRA LEONE DECLARED FREE OF DISEASE

Dr Oliver Johnson, from the King's Sierra Leone partnership, worked at an Ebola clinic in Freetown, and has strong links with medical professionals there... READ MORE›

WHO ARE THE FOUR AMERICANS STILL BEING HELD IN IRAN?

But the agreement makes no mention of Americans who have been held in Iran for years... READ MORE›

FOREIGN OFFICE WILL NO LONGER EXPLICITLY CAMPAIGN FOR AN END TO USE OF THE DEATH PENALTY WORLDWIDE

The Foreign and Commonwealth Office FCO has alarmed campaigners after dropping explicit references to abolishing the death penalty from its global human right work... READ MORE›

THE WORLD'S MOST NOTORIOUS DRUG LORD HAS BECOME MEXICO'S HIT HALLOWEEN COSTUME

If the El Chapo costume doesn't continue to sell, the company thinks it still has a silver bullet A mask that pokes fun at Donald Trump... READ MORE›

PEOPLE SMUGGLER CASH: STACKS POLICE SAY WERE PAID TO SEND ASYLUM SEEKERS ON A 'SUICIDE MISSION'

Mr Hassan said the crew initially told Australian officials they couldn't go back to Indonesia because they could be jailed for people smuggling... READ MORE›

JESSICA WONGSO GETS 20 YEARS FOR CYANIDE MURDER

An Australian resident has been sentenced to 20 years in prison after being found guilty of murdering her friend with a cyanide laced coffee... READ MORE›

ALL THE LAWS AUSTRALIA IS BREAKING IF IT PAYS HUMAN SMUGGLERS TO KEEP MIGRANTS AWAY

This really tests the boundaries of Indonesian and international law, said Elaine Pearson, the Australian director of Human Rights Watch... READ MORE›

INTELLECTUALLY-DISABLED AUSTRALIAN COULD FACE DEATH PENALTY IN CHINA

In all, as many as a dozen Australians have been detained in Guangzhou in the past year or so on similar drug charges which could attract the death penalty... READ MORE›

GERMANS 'WORKING IN SPECIALIST TORTURE SQUAD FOR ISLAMIC STATE'

During his time in Syria he witnessed several torture sessions and executions, including the crucifixion of a former Isil commander, he told interrogators... READ MORE›

NEBRASKA POISED TO ABOLISH DEATH PENALTY, WOULD BE FIRST STATE SINCE 2013

If that vote holds in a veto override, Nebraska would become the first conservative state to repeal the death penalty since 1973... READ MORE›

CROCODILES AND TIGERS TO GUARD PRISONERS

In November 2015, Indonesia bowed to international pressure and put a temporary halt on executing death row prisoners, so alternatives were sought by the authorities... READ MORE›

'BLACK WIDOW' INVESTIGATED AFTER DEATHS OF SEVEN PARTNERS

In April 2012, another black widow killer, 39-year-old Kanae Kijima, was given the death penalty for the murders of three men she met through Internet dating sites... READ MORE›

'WHEN IT COMES TO ITS TREATMENT OF THOSE SEEKING ASYLUM, AUSTRALIA IS BECOMING A LAWLESS STATE'

When it comes to its treatment of those seeking asylum Australia is becoming a lawless state Amnesty International refugee researcher Anna Shea says... READ MORE›

SIERRA LEONE DECLARED FREE OF EBOLA TRANSMISSIONS

WHO commends the government and people of Sierra Leone for the significant achievement of ending this Ebola outbreak, he said... READ MORE›

One volunteer, Dr Geraldine O'Hara, an infectious diseases specialist from Huddersfield, has recorded a series of audio diaries while she is in Sierra Leone... READ MORE›

PEOPLE SMUGGLER CASH: STACKS POLICE SAY WERE PAID TO SEND ASYLUM SEEKERS ON A 'SUICIDE MISSION'

Mr Hassan said the crew initially told Australian officials they couldn't go back to Indonesia because they could be jailed for people smuggling... READ MORE›

ARKANSAS SEEKS WITNESSES FOR EIGHT UPCOMING EXECUTIONS

A state law requires that at least six people witness an execution to ensure that the state's death penalty laws are properly followed... READ MORE›

DEATH, CHEMICAL CASTRATION FOR CHILD SEX OFFENDERS

Sexual violence against children, as I have said, is an extraordinary crime, President Joko Widodo told journalists, according to a statement... READ MORE›

SIERRA LEONE DECLARED FREE OF EBOLA TRANSMISSIONS

Nearly 4,000 people have died in Sierra Leone of Ebola since the outbreak began in late 2013... READ MORE›

34 INMATES ESCAPE CROWDED JAIL IN HAITI WITH SUSPECTED HELP OF PRISON GUARDS

Photograph Dieu Nalio Chery AP Saint-Marc is a port city about 60 miles 95km north of Port-au-Prince and is the largest city between Port-au-Prince and Cap-Haitien... READ MORE›

'EL CHAPO': MEXICO SIGNALS EXTRADITION TO US

On Friday Guzman was detained and sent back to the maximum-security prison he escaped from six months ago... READ MORE›

KALAMAZOO SHOOTINGS: UBER DRIVER BLAMES APP

Mr Dalton is charged with shooting eight people, killing six of them during a five-hour period... READ MORE›

BRITISH TEEN RECEIVES LIFE SENTENCE FOR INCITING TERRORIST ACT

The Greater Manchester Police informed police in Australia, who arrested five men in April, a week before the parade... READ MORE›

ABBOTT FACES THREE INQUIRIES INTO BOAT PAY-OFF CLAIMS

International law experts say the payments are tantamount to the Australian government funding people-smuggling... READ MORE›

FARKHUNDA MURDER: AFGHAN COURT QUASHES DEATH SENTENCES

On the same day in May that the four men were given the death penalty, the judge sentenced eight defendants to 16 years in prison and acquitted 18 others... READ MORE›

INDONESIAN MP CALLS FOR AUSTRALIA TO ABANDON PUSH-BACK POLICY

The Indonesian government must send a strong protest to the Australian government so that it will not recur in the future... READ MORE›