Crime

Sharon Stone's former live-in nanny has accused the actress of racism, religious persecution and unfair dismissal.

Schapelle Corby is looking forward to ‘the sand between her toes” and a “cleansing swim” at her favourite beach when she returns home to Australia. Corby’s plea for clemency was approved by Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono yesterday and her family is hopeful she could be back home by August. A letter confirming the clemency […]

Schapelle Corby has been granted clemency by the Indonesian government and could be free within three months. The 34-year-old could be released from Bali’s infamous Kerobokan Jail as early as August, the Daily Telegraph reports. Schapelle will apparently receive a letter approving the clemency later today. The clemency will see Schapelle’s sentence slashed by five […]

For Gordon Wood, going to jail was traumatic. But it was nothing compared to how he felt the night his girlfriend, Caroline Byrne, died. He still grieves for her, and wonders whether he could have done anything to prevent her death. “It still weighs heavily on me, whether I could have done more in the […]

George Clooney has given women everywhere another reason to adore him - while in prison last week he used his only phone call to ring his mum to tell her he loved her.

Domestic violence kills an Australian woman almost every week but Jordan Baker doesn't think we take it seriously enough.

Gordon Wood, the man accused of pushing model Caroline Byrne off a cliff almost 20 years ago, has been acquitted of her murder. Wood has spent more than three years in jail after a jury found he had killed Caroline, his girlfriend, by throwing her off Sydney’s notorious suicide spot, The Gap, in 1995. Related: […]

A Black Saturday fire-fighter who kicked his former partner in the head so hard it snapped her optic nerve and blinded her in one eye has been given a bravery award by the Royal Humane Society of Australasia. In a ceremony attended by Victorian Governor Alex Curnov and other dignitaries at Melbourne Town Hall on […]

Tania Herman, the woman serving at least nine years in jail for trying to kill Maria Korp, her lover Joe’s wife, has spoken for the first time from prison. In an interview published exclusively in The Australian Women’s Weekly, Herman — who shares a unit with Herman Rockefeller killer Bernadette Denny — says she was […]

Troubled actor Matthew Newton failed to appear in court today on charges of assaulting a taxi driver, with his lawyer saying his mental health issues would be aggravated by the media attention.