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Harbinder Khatkar, from Derby, has been ordered to serve at least 14 years after being convicted of rapes committed in December 2011 and February 2013 A violent rapist has been jailed for life after a landmark legal ruling in which his original acquittal for the offence was quashed by the Court of Appeal.

AT&T, under fire for ongoing revelations that it shares and sells customers' communications records to the National Security Agency and other U.S. intelligence offices, says it isn't required to disclose to shareholders what it does with customers' data.

A couple married just three weeks lured a Pennsylvania man to his death with a Craigslist ad because they wanted to kill someone together, police said.

A former top executive of Texas' $3 billion cancer-fighting effort was indicted over an improperly awarded $11 million taxpayer-funded grant that plunged the state agency into turmoil, prosecutors said Friday.

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Khodorkovsky has been imprisoned for ten years. He was found guilty of tax evasion in 2005 and convicted of embezzlement in 2010.

As William Bratton gets set to embark on his second tour of duty as New York City police commissioner, he will find a very different city than the one he left behind nearly 20 years ago.

Through rushes of tears, bouts of laughs, worries, determination, incredible pain a?? but above all, hope a?? Alisha Waters has waited to come home.

Jameis Winston will learn whether he faces prosecution Thursday when a state attorney finally announces the results of an intensive investigation into sexual assault allegations against the Florida State quarterback.

While the city's Metro-North Railroad is already getting hit with multimillion-dollar civil claims over a deadly commuter train derailment, prosecutors will face tough choices when deciding whether to bring criminal charges against the train's engineer, who told investigators he nodded or fell into a daze at the controls.

A Bosnian court is rejecting a request from prosecutors to re-arrest nine Bosnian Serbs convicted of war crimes but released because of procedural errors.

The National Crime Agency said two footballers from Whitehawk FC, a Conference South team in Brighton, have been charged over match-fixing allegations Two footballers from Whitehawk FC, a Conference South team in Brighton, have been charged over match-fixing allegations, the National Crime Agency said.

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The Richmond and Carlsbad city councils voted Tuesday to prohibit the battery-powered nicotine inhalers from parks, restaurants and other places where cigarettes are banned.

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is launching ads backing eight-term Republican Rep. Mike Simpson , who faces a primary challenge in Idaho, and two GOP candidates in West Virginia as the business organization ramps up its political activity for next year's congressional elections.

This July 11, 2012 file photo shows Rep. Chris Smith, R-N.J. speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington.

In this Nov. 30, 2013, file photo, Florida State quarterback Jameis Winston warms up before an NCAA college football game against Florida in Gainesville, Fla.

The suspect in last month's fatal shooting at Los Angeles International Airport was ordered held without bond Wednesday, after saying he that he understood the charges against him.

Bryce Reed was arrested by federal agents who said he collected materials to make a pipe bomb.