In a new role, Letby will be responsible for handing out books and DVDs to fellow inmates.

Nicaragua's authoritarian government said Saturday it had freed "tens" of detainees, following US pressure and a week after American forces seized Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro, a close Managua ally.

US President Donald Trump said Venezuela has begun the process of releasing political prisoners, claiming the move was carried out "in a big way" following US action against the Venezuelan leadership.

US President Donald Trump said Friday he called off a second wave of attacks on Venezuela after securing cooperation with the new leadership, which began releasing prisoners nearly a week after Washington forcibly removed the leftist president.

Sean "Diddy" Combs, who is serving a four-year prison sentence for prostitution-related crimes, has asked Donald Trump for a pardon, but the US president said he does not plan to grant clemency to the hip-hop star.

Aldrich Ames, the Central Intelligence Agency spy who was sentenced to life in prison for selling secrets to Moscow, costing the lives of a dozen double agents, died Monday in custody, US authorities said.

It's only been days since an audacious US raid snatched Nicols Maduro from a Venezuelan military base and sped him to a Brooklyn prison, yet Detroit-area Trump supporter Aaron Tobin can already see it all playing out on the big screen.

The Uttarakhand High Court has ordered the immediate release of a prisoner who had been in jail for 13 years in a murder case.

Before deposed Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro was brought to the United States to face drug-trafficking charges, another Latin American leader had already stood trial in a US court for similar crimes. The outcome, however, was very different.

Detainees and their lawyers have long complained about rampant violence at the Brooklyn jail. Two prisoners were killed by other inmates in 2024, and jail workers have been charged with accepting bribes or providing contraband.

Colombian President Gustavo Petro received a warning from his US counterpart Donald Trump, even as Nicolas Maduro was brought to a prison in New York almost a day after Washington launched military Operation Absolute Resolve in Ven

Jalin White, 22, from Wisconsin, has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for throwing his 8-month-old son at a wall during a video game-related outburst.

Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was discharged from hospital on Thursday after undergoing medical procedures to treat a hernia and hiccups, according to a Reuters witness and local media reports.

Brazil's Supreme Court has rejected former president Jair Bolsonaro's request to convert his prison sentence for plotting a coup to house arrest, according to a ruling published Thursday.

Under provisions of the bilateral Agreement on Consular Access 2008, India and Pakistan on Thursday exchanged, through diplomatic channels, simultaneously in New Delhi and Islamabad, the lists of civil prisoners and fishermen in each other's custody.

The Supreme Court has stayed a Delhi High Court order suspending ex-BJP MLA Kuldeep Sengar's life term for the rape of a woman then a minor in Uttar Pradesh's Unnao in 2017.

70-year-old Jair Bolsonaro, who is serving a 27-year prison sentence for an attempted coup, was earlier released from prison to undergo surgery for a groin hernia.

After helming the country for nine years, Najib Razak is now behind bars, serving a six-year sentence for graft linked to the plunder of Malaysia's sovereign wealth fund 1MDB.

The Court emphasised that the public interest litigation is not a tool for advancing political agendas or turning the judiciary into a political arena.

London police on Tuesday arrested Swedish activist Greta Thunberg at a demonstration in support of pro-Palestinian hunger strikers, Palestinian activist groups said.

Pakistan's former prime minister Imran Khan and his wife Bushra Bibi were sentenced to 17 years in jail each by a court on Saturday in the Toshakhana 2 corruption case.

Wiz Khalifa, whose real name is Cameron Jibril Thomaz, was arrested in July 2024 after smoking a joint onstage in Romania.

Considering that Wiz Khalifa is a US citizen, it is yet to be seen if the Romanian authorities will file an extradition request.

Maharashtra Sports Minister and NCP leader Manikrao Kokate resigned, hours after a court upheld his conviction in a three-decade-old housing scam case, triggering political churn within the state's ruling Mahayuti alliance.