Detroit has become the largest city in US history to file for bankruptcy protection with debts of more than £10 billion.
One of the two suspected accused of the murder of off-duty soldier Lee Rigby in Woolwich in May has alleged that he has been assaulted in prison.
Alexei Navalny, one of President Putin’s greatest critics, has been found guilty of theft and embezzlement and jailed for five years in Russia.
The number of British people raped ro sexually assaulted whilst abroad increased last year according to a recent Foreign Office report
The decision by the European Court of Human Rights that “life means life” sentences for inmates are against their human rights has found many detractors, but if the prison system is for reform and not just punishment then hope of release is a requirement.