Oscar Pistorius is free to compete for his country again, despite being convicted of culpable homicide.

UPDATE: Oscar Pistorius has been found guilty of culpable homicide, over the fatal shooting of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. Judge Thokozile Masipa convicted him of culpable homicide (manslaughter) in the Pretoria High Court today. The judge, who also found him guilty of one firearm charge, said Pistorius was “negligent” and acted “too hastily” in firing the shots […]

Police have pulled a body and a firearm from the Lockhart dam after a woman and her three children were found shot dead in their home. UPDATE: The man’s body and the firearm were recovered from a dam where police divers had been searching for Geoff Hunt. Hunt, a sheep and grain farmer went missing […]

Keli Lane, the woman sent to jail for killing her baby girl, Tegan, has had her application to appeal her murder conviction refused by the High Court.

The trial of accused murderer Oscar Pistorius drew one step closer to its dramatic finale in South Africa yesterday as prosecutors summed up their arguments with yet another assault on the former Olympic sprint star's credibility.

The legal team representing Gerard Baden-Clay have filed an appeal against his murder conviction.

Queensland real estate agent Gerard Baden-Clay has been found guilty of his wife's murder and sentenced to life in prison.

The Denise Morcombe story is in the end one of hope. It's also the story of love

The NSW Legislative Council voted unanimously on Tuesday to support the inquiry, after relentless lobbying by the families. Colleen Walker, 16, Evelyn Greenup 4, and Clinton Speedy-Duroux, 16, were murdered over an eight-month period between 1990 and 1991 in the largely Aboriginal town of Bowraville, in NSW. A white man, who had been living in […]

Fifty years ago, Jacqueline Kennedy's life fell apart in the most horrific and public of ways.