Cristian Bernasconi has been sentenced to life imprisonment for murdering his mother and brother in May last year, as they harrassed them for being homosexual.

The National Chamber of Criminal Appeals today rejected appeals by former commanders Domingo Bussi and Luciano Menéndez, against the ruling that in 2008 sentenced them to life imprisonment for the disappearance and death of Senator Guillermo Vargas Aignasse in Tucuman in the early morning of the 24 March, 1976 coup.

Andrew Boyd pleads guilty to dangerous driving after running over a pedestrian.

Two British children who lured two other youngsters to a secluded area and subjected them to a horrifying catalog of near-fatal abuse were sentenced to at least five years in detention.

A mother who killed her brain-damaged son with heroin has been sentenced to a minimum of nine years behind bars for the crime.

The former Archbishop Edgardo Gabriel Storni was sentenced to eight years in prison for sexual abuse, according to the sentence issued by Judge Maria Amalia Mascheroni.

Former oppressor Luciano Benjamin Menendez was sentenced to life imprisonment for crimes against humanity in the last militar dictatorship.

The former head of the third Corpse of the Army during the last military dictatorship, Luciano Benjamin Menendez made his closing statements at the trial that is carried forward in the province of Cordoba, for crimes against humanity committed during Argentina’s dirty war.

A Japanese singer and actress, Noriko Sakai, famous for her girl-next door image has been convicted of drug offences.

One of the murderers of journalist Jose Luis Cabezas, Sergio Gustavo Gonzalez, will go to prison again as it was ordered by the Supreme Court of the Nation, thus reversing the decision of the Criminal Appeal Chamber which had left him free.

Nigerian footballer Stephen Worgu has been sentenced to 40 lashes after he was convicted of drinking alcohol in Sudan where he plays for first division side Al-Merreikh of Omdurman.

In Horry County, South Carolina, a man was sentenced to three years in prison after he was caught on tape while having sex with a horse.

A Spanish court punished with up to six years imprisonment six players on the football team ‘Bada Bing’, of the Catalonian regional third division, for a racist attack on rivals Rosario Central, made up of Argentines and Uruguayans.

Facebook has won yet another massive judgment against a spammer who already owes $234 million to MySpace.

A policeman from the Metropolitan police was sentenced today to 18 years imprisonment after he pleaded guilty to sexually abusing three teenagers, including two sisters, between May and June, 2008.

English singer Boy George says he played hard-man to deal with other prisoners during his recent jail sentence. The 48-year-old singer served four months for shackling a Norwegian male escort to the wall and whipping him while high on cocaine in his East London flat. (VIDEO AVAILABLE)

Repressors Bernardo Jorge Olivera Rovere and Jose Menendez were sentenced to life imprisonment by the Oral Federal Tribunal 5 of Buenos Aires for the crimes committed during the Argentine dictatorship. Olivera Rovere was a deputy commander of I Corpsunder the command of Guillermo Suarez Mason. Three other officers were acquitted.

Prosecutor Angel Carestia requested today that the magistrate of Buenos Aires city Rosa Parrilli – who hurled abused at two traffic control officers – be prosecuted.

A man and a woman were sentenced today to 25 and 20 years in prison respectively for the murder of businessman Ernesto Mata, which occurred last year during a robbery in his house of Martinez.

The Oral Court Number 10 of Lomas de Zamora District sentenced to 12 years in prison one of the attackers of Socialist National Deputy Jorge Rivas, who suffered major brain damage.