Courts

A Perth grandmother and Indigenous community leader tells a Japanese court she was "deceived" after she was found with almost 2 kilograms of methamphetamine in her luggage at Narita airport, near Tokyo.

The wording of Daniel John Ridgers' charge was also amended, from "throwing" to "dropping" baby Khaylan into a cot.

The Tasmanian government receives justice Gregory Geason's resignation, a day before parliament was to ask the governor to sack him.

Senior Constable Kristian White takes to the stand in his own manslaughter trial, marking the first time he has spoken publicly since tasering great-grandmother Clare Nowland.

Her daughters say she was lonely and vulnerable. Now Perth grandmother Donna Nelson is about to stand trial in Japan on drug smuggling charges her children believe arose out of a romance scam.

If the sale goes ahead, the Infowars website will be relaunched with satire aimed at conspiracy theorists and right-wing commentators.

The music mogul has pleaded not guilty to charges that he coerced and abused women for years with the aid of a network of associates and employees.

The Catholic Church has won a High Court appeal against rulings it is vicariously liable for the actions of a priest who allegedly sexually abused a five-year-old in 1971, sparking calls for change.

The parents and loved ones of the children who died as a result of a jumping castle lifting into the air three years ago have endured two weeks of emotionally charged debate, complex technical discussions and arguing by experts in a Tasmanian court room.

With the trial of two WA parents accused of starving their daughter drawing to a close, a jury will soon have to decide whether they intentionally denied her nourishment to keep her their "little girl forever".

The ruling could unseat South Korean opposition leader Lee Jae-myung and deny him a shot at running for president in the next election.

The grieving loved ones of a woman murdered by her former partner say her death has "shattered" their family.

The sister of Simone Strobel has spoken through tears of her family's grief and pain as a week-long inquest into the kindergarten teacher's death concluded.

Police say a month-long investigation led them to a business in Newcastle where the ring was found. Two men have since been arrested and have faced court.

LN has spent 10 days giving evidence and on her final day in the witness box she has told jurors "it's not an act".

A consultant whose $5 million contract with the Canberra's Institute of Technology (CIT) was cancelled wins his battle to sue the organisation.

A Colombian national living in Australia has been charged after he allegedly "unreasonably enforced" a small group of people to pay off debts, locked them inside a cupboard for days and restricted their communications.

A colleague of a police officer who tasered a great-grandmother has told a court about a conversation they had after the officer got back to the station.

Former SA opposition leader David Speirs appears in court for the first time since being charged with drug offences.

A mechanical engineering and inflatables expert is told by the prosecutor and the magistrate to answer the questions put to him after a tense back and forth inside a Tasmanian court.